Gates Engineer
Role Overview
- To install, repair, and maintain automated gates, barriers, bollards, and garage doors
- Reports to Engineering Manager
Hours
- 40-hour week with 1:8 Saturdays
- Overtime expected
Key Responsibilities
- Install gates, barriers, bollards, and garage doors to specified standards
- Read job specification sheets and prepare all necessary equipment to complete jobs
- Prepare for jobs by reading site plans, drawings and project minutes where relevant
- Solve practical problems: detect and repair system faults using a logical approach
- Perform routine maintenance services when required
- Adhere to all health and safety requirements
- Liaise with customers to find out relevant information and keep them informed of job progress
- On job completion, test system and train customers on its functions, supplying a manual where possible
- Participate in meetings with external site teams and within own company environment
- Complete all paperwork (including timesheets and expenses) to specified standards and submit by stated deadlines
- Keep the office team updated of job progress and provide them with technical support when required
- Support colleagues through offering assistance and training when required
- Consistently update own technical knowledge
- Look after company vehicles according to specified standards
- Perform any other duties that may be assigned on an as-needed basis
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years' experience working with automated gates
- Valid UK Driving Licence holder
- Live within 1 hour of Woking, Surrey
Skills & Abilities
- Use hand and electrical tools with competence
- Good interpersonal skills to liaise with customers
- Be able to demonstrate a logical approach to resolving technical scenarios
Physical Demands
The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.
- Use hands to perform intricate functions, occasionally lift weights up to 50 lbs
- Use close vision
- Required to frequently stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, kneel, stoop, crouch and crawl
- Work at heights using ladders and cherry picker vehicles and work within confined spaces
- May be required to drive for long distances
- Be part of an 'on call' rota which may necessitate evening, weekend or bank holiday work
- Be prepared to work with minimum supervision or as part of a team
Work Environment
- Exposed to the risk of electrical shock
- Exposed to moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places
- Exposed to outside weather conditions (wet, extreme cold and heat)
- Potential high surrounding noise levels
- On occasion, work within an office environment
- May be required to work away from home in the UK or overseas
Benefits
- Join one of the UK's leading automation companies
- Be part of a fun and collaborative team environment
- Competitive pay
- Overtime pay
This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter this job description at any time without notice.