Workshop Technician

Job Id: 41125- Job Family: Production- Location: Sydney, AU- Employment Type: Permanent**JOIN THE UP MOVEMENT**

We invite you to join our team as

**Workshop Technician**

Joining Manitou means forging your career path as part of an international group offering real opportunities to make an impact through your contributions.

**ABOUT OUR COMPANY & CULTURE**:
Manitou Group, a world leader in rough-terrain handling, invents, produces, distributes and services material for construction, agriculture and industries. We design, manufacture, distribute, and service products and solutions for the material handling, access equipment and compact earth moving activities that work smarter, faster, safer and cost efficiently. Through its iconic brands - Manitou, Gehl and Mustang by Manitou - and its network of 1,500 dealers worldwide, the group offers the best solutions by creating optimum value for its customers. With its headquarters in France, the group recorded a revenue of 1.9 billion euros across 140 countries in 2018, and it employs 4,400 people who are all committed to satisfying customers. We are passionate about our products and people.

We are a company that thrives on employee engagement and driven to achieve excellence. We are proud of delivering results through accountability, collaboration, integrity and teamwork. **_We are Manitou._**

Convinced that work is a source of self-fulfilment, we look after the well-being of our teams by improving their work environment on a daily basis with a proactive Health and Safety Culture, open communication, recognition and developing our talent.

The Workshop Technician main role will be to undertake repairs and maintain equipment such as elevating work platforms, telescopic handlers, skid steers and forklifts. The requirement will be to work on DC electrical systems, hydraulic systems, as well as mechanical equipment such as, engines, motors and production machine equipment.

**Critical R**espons**ibilities**:

- Workshop Repairs and Maintenance
- Customer Satisfaction
- Safety/Quality
- Cross Functional Support / Training

**Main responsibilities**:

- Undertake pre-delivery inspections and modification on new machine.
- Observes mechanical devices in operation according to manufacturer requirements & perform diagnostic procedures to locate causes of faults.
- Installs & repair electrical apparatus, such as EWP wiring and associated components including adjustment & repair of electronic components such as PCB control cards.
- Calibrates equipment using electronic aids & procedures & programmable controllers.
- Dismantles devices to gain access to and remove defective parts.
- Examines form and texture of parts to detect imperfections.
- Inspects used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements.
- Adjusts functional parts of devices and control instruments.
- Repairs or replaces defective parts & components.
- Installs special functional and structural parts in devices & equipment.
- Lubricates and cleans parts.
- Starts / operates devices to test their performance.
- Sets up and operates repair equipment and repair parts according to instruction & procedure.
- Repairs electrical equipment as instructed.
- Liaise with spare parts team to determine parts required for repairs.
- Use Manitou systems and tools to log job status, report, consult documentation, escalate issues

**Transversal projects and innovation**
- Where required, participate on transversal projects to support the development of Manitou Center activity
- Propose and Innovate on targeted actions to bring more added value to our dealers and customers

**The Person**:

- Excellent interpersonal relationship and customer focused.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Warm Personality and open minded.
- Self motivated.
- Good technical background experience in hydraulics and electrics for supporting Machinery: e.g: Telescopic Handlers, Forklifts, Tractors, earthmoving equipment etc...
- Hard worker, practical personality.
- Good Team spirit, experience working in a small team is an advantage
- Person who wants to participate strongly in the development of a growing business.
- Flexibility to work and adapt to different cultures and new projects.

**Experience**:

- Must have a one year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months of related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Work experience in customer support
- Forklift licence desirable
- Current drivers license an advantage
- Current EWP High Risk License an advantage
- Telehandler Gold Card an advantage.

**_Are you enthusiastic about this position? That’s great, because we are too_**

**_Equal Opportunity Employer_