Crown Lift Trucks New Zealand Looking for Site Service Technician – Auckland at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

Crown Equipment is proud of its 40+ years in serving New Zealand’s businesses and communities as a material handling equipment company. Crown has a widely distributed sales and service branch network located across the North and South Island locations. Our global company brand is well-known and respected in the marketplace and is supported by a customer value proposition based on highly skilled staff, quality products, strong service and parts back-up and leading-edge technology.

About The Role

With growth in our operation, we have an exciting newly-created role where you’ll join a stable business and enjoy the variety and opportunities of working within a close-knit, supportive team as part of a large organisation.

This diverse role will see you based in our workshop environment across the Woolworths sites in the Wiri area in Auckland, with occasional requirement to assist at Foodstuffs, from time to time. You will be part of the team performing repairs and maintenance on a large fleet of our Forklifts, mostly mechanical battery electric machines with a significant number of different models giving you the opportunity to develop and increase your skills.

Woolworths is one of Crown’s largest customer and an important part of your role will be to provide exceptional service to our customers – the greatest purpose of our teams is to work together with our customers and support them to keep their businesses on the go!

You’ll have the chance to learn our products, and this will give you the opportunity to progress in the business and the organisation. Crown product knowledge would be a real bonus, but we have heaps of great training materials, if you’re a willing learner!

This is a permanent, full-time role, working Mondays to Fridays with the opportunity for some paid overtime.

Requirements

About you

Ideally, we’re looking for candidates with a minimum of 3 years’ Material Handling Equipment experience or Auto Electrical or Motor Mechanic experience or trade qualification or hydraulics experience (or similar overseas qualification).

To really shine in this role, you’ll bring your customer-centric and solutions-focused attitude, as you support our valued customers with service they can trust. You’ll work in a collaborative team environment, so being a team player and being prepared to support the team is essential. Being IT savvy and an agile learner will stand you in good stead.

There will be manual handling required and so you’ll also need to be physically fit.

Please note, a full pre-employment medical, including a drug & alcohol test, as well as valid drivers’ license will be required. In addition, as part of your initial training you must be able to travel to Australia (NZ passport or the eligibility to obtain an AUS visa). Preference will be given to local candidates with suitable skills.

Benefits

What we offer

• Great market-related hourly rate ($30-$40p/hr, depending on experience) with the ability to work occasional additional hours at time-and-a-half
• Exciting learning environment with real career development opportunities, including a seven-week service training program as our investment in you!
• Chance to work for a trusted supplier in the forklift industry!

The career opportunities are exciting! Crown offers genuine career paths and development and career progression, with people in our business staying for up to 25 years and enjoying a varied career. For those coming into the business at an entry-level, we’re able to offer opportunities to start a career in Trade and/or Sales and more.

Come join the NZ lift truck market leader, “as there is nothing like a Crown for picking it up and putting it down” http://www.crown.com