Field Service Fitter

Job description

Description and requirements

Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

Drawing on our Scandinavian heritage, we are green, innovative, and progressive. We bring together people and technology, as part of our objective to make construction a safer and more collaborative industry.

We have 3,300 experts in the UK alone, could joining us be your next career move?

Based in Doncaster our Bentley Works Facility provides a huge range of manufacturing, engineering and maintenance services, using specialist equipment and precision tooling. The facility provides the main hub for internal piling and foundation equipment.

We employ a multi-skilled team of mechanical and civil engineers at the South Yorkshire site. Their expertise includes production design, fabrication, welding, electrical engineering, hydraulics and computer numerical control machining. The over-riding responsibility of a Fitter is to carry out maintenance and repairs to plant and equipment to the required standard, as directed by the Fitting Shop supervision.

You'll:

• Carry out routine maintenance and repairs of all mechanical aspects of the plant and ancillary equipment within the depot.
• Fixed mechanical installation work
• Utilise diagnostic technology to test, inspect and diagnose faults on plant and ancillary equipment.
• Plan, prioritise and schedule the flow of work on a daily basis.
• Progress the work / job from initial inspection through to final inspection and sign-off.
• Identify, record and requisition repair items / parts as required, ensuring continuity of the work.
• Travel to sites to carry out repairs, inspections, testing and servicing as required.
• Report to supervision about any training needs to develop full skills set required for the role.
• Occasional UK wide travel expected.

We're looking for:

• Required: City & Guilds / NVQ L3 or equivalent in Plant Maintenance or Fitting
• Desirable: Knowledge of all types of piling / ground engineering rigs and equipment
• Health and Safety trained - CSCS card.
• Experience in carrying out repairs and maintenance of plant and equipment.
• Environmental awareness
• Manual handling

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reward and benefits

A career with us means you'll have the freedom to develop your skills and leave your mark on the communities in which we work. Our competitive benefits package will help to enhance your life outside work, too.

Inclusion and diversity

We thrive through embracing differences because we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [email protected] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [email protected]

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.