Generator Engineer; Workshop

Company:

Finning (UK) Ltd

1

Permanent

As a Workshop based Generator Engineer for the Finning Power Rental team, you will be working on a wide range of rental equipment required to support electric prime, back up and emergency power projects across the UK and Ireland. Your main job responsibilities include preparing and executing the mobilisation of rental equipment to meet required customer needs for on-site projects and performing various types of repairs, maintenance, inspections and testing to ensure the rental fleet, including generators, load-banks, transformers, fuel tanks and ancillaries, are in a serviceable condition and ready for hire to support our customer’s needs.

About Us

Finning Power Rental is a leading provider of temporary and emergency power solutions to hire and rent across the U.K. and Ireland. As part of the Finning group, we are the largest global dealer of Cat® products and services.

From planned projects to unexpected outages, we provide power rental options across all industries, including construction, data centres, healthcare, manufacturing, and offshore applications. Whatever your sector, you can be assured you’re in safe hands with our specialist teams of expert engineers that think globally and act locally.

Benefits:

• Salary Circa £27,000 - £40,000 (dependant on experience)
• 25 days holiday (purchase up to 5 extra days holiday)
• Annual Bonus
• Healthcare benefits (medical, optical, hearing, dentistry, and new child payments to support new parents)
• Access to company share scheme
• Life insurance
• Laptop and phone
• CAT product training
• Overtime

Additionally, you will benefit from enhanced maternity and paternity packages, family-friendly policies to support working parents, enhanced flexible working options, support from a team of 40+ Mental Health first aiders, employee wellbeing solutions, the opportunity to work with your charity of choice, and length of service & recognition awards.

Major

Job Functions:

• Test, service and maintain the rental fleet equipment, including generators, transformers, fuel tanks, loadbanks, cables, panels and ancillaries, in line with the correct maintenance schedules. Provide recommendations for additional repairs and maintenance required to ensure, where possible, all failures of equipment are prevented, and the fleet is made available in a timely manner. (15%)
• Perform up to and including intermediate level repairs on the rental equipment in a quick, safe and efficient way and ensure all relevant documentation is completed. Provide recommendations and technical support on repairs required to help ensure that the best solution is completed in line with fleet availability and ROI of the equipment. (10%)
• Lead the preparation and execution of logistics for inbound and outbound equipment, including the synchronisation of generators and proof of correct functionality where required. Ensure fleet meets the agreed requirements and specifications of the customer project and, if applicable, work closely with the Application Engineering team to deliver on customer expectations (20%)
• Perform diagnostics and repairs on electrical and mechanical systems for all fleet equipment ensuring issues are resolved in a quick, safe and efficient way. Utilise internal systems to foresee and prevent potential issues to maintain fleet availability to expected levels (15%)
• Complete the Ready to Rent process for the rental equipment in a timely manner, recording the inspection and documenting any required repairs using the correct system and processes. (10%)
• Lead the rental returns and pre delivery process for the rental equipment, ensuring the inspection is recorded using the correct system and any damages are reported…