Forklift Service Technician

Function

As a Service Technician, you’ll be out and about every day visiting customers in your region to keep forklift trucks and internal transport equipment in top condition.

Your duties will include, amongst other things:

• Carry out preventive maintenance on forklift trucks and internal transport equipment.
• Analysing and resolving technical faults as and when they occur.
• Diagnosing mechanical and electrical faults in machines powered by diesel, gas or electricity.
• To inform customers in a professional manner about the work carried out.
• Complete work orders correctly and process them administratively.
• Discuss with the planning department the work carried out and the duration of the interventions.
• Keep your service van tidy and manage the stock of spare parts.

You will mainly be working within your own region, which means long journeys will be kept to a minimum. Only in exceptional circumstances will you be called upon to help out in another region.

Profile

You are a technician who enjoys tinkering and finds satisfaction in maintaining and repairing machinery.

In addition, you possess:

• A qualification in mechanics, automotive engineering, electromechanics, maintenance engineering or vehicle technology, or equivalent experience.
• Candidates with a strong technical background, whether gained through a hobby or professional experience with, for example, agricultural machinery, cars or other vehicles, are also eligible.
• A sound technical grounding in mechanical and/or electrical engineering.
• A customer-focused and communicative approach.
• A willingness to learn and the motivation to master new techniques.
• A flexible approach.
• A driving licence B.
• A good knowledge of Dutch or English.

Organisation

Our client is an established company specialising in the sale, maintenance and technical support of industrial handling equipment. The company is the exclusive distributor and maintenance partner for a leading premium brand of forklift trucks in East and West Flanders.

With a team of around sixty technicians, divided between office-based and field-based roles, we are committed every day to providing high-quality service and building long-term customer relationships. We invest heavily in modern equipment, training and support for our technicians, so that they can focus entirely on their technical expertise.

Offer

You’ll be joining a financially stable company where quality, training and autonomy are key priorities.

You can count on:

• Hourly wage between €20 and €25, depending on your experience.
• Daily allowance of €12 per day worked.
• Hospitalisation insurance.
• Eco-vouchers.
• Service van for professional use.
• A working week of 37.5 hours supplemented by 3 ADV days.
• Additional seniority days and collective agreement days in accordance with the applicable scheme.
• A thorough training course lasting approximately 2 to 3 months, after which you’ll start working independently in your region.
• Leaving home: your working day begins the moment you leave home.
• On-call duty is kept to a minimum thanks to the large team of technicians (on average, about once a year).
• Just a few trips a year to the head office for purposes such as training, medical examinations or team-building activities.
• Modern, high-quality tools, with the necessary supplies restocked in your service van overnight.