Workshop Engineer

Bristol (with some travel across the UK)

Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits

Do you have refrigeration/air conditioning and/or electrical experience and want to build on your knowledge and skills?

Want to work in a varied and hands on role within a team, and do you enjoy some travel within your working week?

Then read on, because this could be the role for you…

What’s In It For You?

Daikin UK care about what they do and who helps them to do it, so they put great emphasis on rewarding their employees every step of the way. This includes:

• Highly competitive annual bonus.
• Comprehensive private medical and personal accident insurance plans.
• Employer contributions to pension.
• Investment in your training and development to encourage and support your career progression within the company.

What Will You Be Doing?

As a Workshop Engineer for Daikin UK, your role will focus on producing and modifying equipment in-house and on-site within set timescales to meet customer expectations. You will be working predominantly in our workshop in Thornbury, Bristol but there will be some travel across the UK 25% of the time.

You will be involved in:

• Production of workshop materials in line with approved working instructions (WI)
• Liaising closely with the Workshop supervisor to ensure production is streamlined
• Completion of production order paperwork process – to ensure that correct parts utilised are included within the BOM (bill of materials) to ensure stock levels are correct within SAP
• Quality of modifications (<1% failure rate)
• Completion of risk assessments and site reports for all site-based activity.
• Compliance with health and safety regulations whilst working ‘in house’ and on customers sites including construction sites.
• Compliance with FGAS legislation at all times
• Building relationships and representing the Daikin brand with the customer network on sites, to promote other workshop products and services.
• Training apprentice engineers for mechanical skills such as brazing, piping fabrication, electrical assembly and FGAS practices always ensuring compliance and safety.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Full UK driving licence and happy to travel across the UK
• Ability to develop and maintain good relationships internally/externally and at all levels
• Excellent presentation skills and a confident, engaging communicator
• Highly organised & able to prioritise
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain accuracy
• Driven to work independently and as part of a team
• Demonstrate customer centric behaviours and a passion for customer service
• Confident with strategic decision making - perceptive, experience + evidence based
• Piping fabrication (including brazing)
• Electrical skills (reading diagrams for assembly and testing)
• Competent in HVAC solutions
• Refrigerant handling

You will ideally have a UK qualification in electrical engineering (e.g. NVQ or City & Guilds),FGAS, CSCS, G3 unvented hot water systems, PASMA/IPAF, and a willingness to learn new things and develop your skills.

Who are we?

Daikin UK Ltd provides innovative, premium quality, indoor climate management solutions to meet the changing needs of our residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Over 90 years of precision and innovation has helped Daikin UK build a worldwide reputation for quality and technology.