Lift Service Engineer (Company Van) – East London
Location: East London – E1, E2, E6, E7, E13, E15, E16 and RM1
Salary: From £45,000, with flexibility for the right person
Hours: Monday to Friday, on your route from 8.00am. No night call-outs.
Contract: Permanent, full time
Your own East London service route
Our client is an established lift company looking for an NVQ Level 3 Lift Engineer to take on a service and call-out route of around 74 units across East London.
You start your day at your first job, not at a depot. There's no daily trip into the office, only the occasional visit to collect something or join a team meeting. You have a company van, your own route list, and your evenings free.
What you'll do
- Planned servicing and maintenance across your route, monthly, bi-monthly and quarterly
- Attend breakdowns on your units as first responder
- Fault-find, diagnose and repair, aiming to fix it first time and avoid return calls
- Read wiring and lift drawings to trace faults
- Complete your full route each month and keep accurate service records
- Cover the occasional out-of-area warranty service (Hatfield, Luton, Gerrards Cross, Bishop's Stortford). These come from completed projects with a 12-month warranty, so they are rarely long term.
- NVQ Level 3 in Lift Engineering
- Strong lift servicing and maintenance experience
- Proven fault-finding skills, able to deal with breakdowns and reactive work as first attendance
- Able to read any lift drawing and fault-find from it
- Full UK driving licence (this is a driving route)
- Able to plan and complete a full monthly route on your own
- Hands-on experience with DAC, DLC, Thames Valley, Lester, Orona, Otis or Kone equipment
- Experience on passenger and platform lifts, plus some goods lifts
- Living within easy reach of East London (E postcodes or Romford/RM)
- A track record of keeping a service route fully up to date each month
Essential
Desirable
What's in it for you
- From £45,000, with flexibility for the right person. Agreed overtime is paid at overtime rate on top.
- Company van, phone and uniform provided. Your tools and kit travel with you, not on a bus.
- 25 days' annual leave plus public holidays, and a company pension.
- Start on your route, not at the office. You're on site from 8.00am, with no daily depot run.
- No night call-outs. This route has no night call requirement, so your evenings stay yours.
- A route list you can plan around. Around 74 units across East London: 70 visits in September, 73 in October and 68 in November. Your own job list shows exactly which units are on monthly, bi-monthly and quarterly visits.
- Real variety in the kit you work on. DAC, DLC, Thames Valley, Lester, Orona, Otis and Kone equipment, so you keep your diagnostic skills sharp across a wide range of controllers and manufacturers.
- Mostly passenger and platform lifts, with a small number of goods lifts.
- You own the outcome. As the first engineer to attend a breakdown on your units, you fix the fault properly and see the result.
- High standards you can be proud of. Routes are completed every month. Services are only carried over for genuine, unforeseen reasons, and the client monitors it closely.
- A quick, straightforward hiring process. First a phone call with the hiring manager, then a meeting or call with the Tech Repair Manager or Pr