Lift Engineer – Service

Service Lift Engineer – Surrey, Sussex, Kent

Otis Elevator Company is the world`s largest manufacturer and maintainer of people-moving products, including elevators, escalators and moving walkways. Headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, USA, Otis employs more than 60,000 people, offers products and services in more than 200 countries and territories and maintains more than 1.35 million lifts and escalators worldwide.

Express Lifts Alliance, part of Otis, is recruiting an experienced Lift Engineer (NVQ3 or equivalent) to cover an area across Sussex, Surrey and Kent in the South East (from Folkestone to Maidstone and Bognor Regis). You will be working on low-rise private blocks, hydraulic lifts, residential care and Local Authority social housing units, including some key account customers.

The maintenance route covers c100 units, with a night call rota (1:4), call-out and stand-by. You will need experience of maintaining / repairing or servicing a variety of lifts, demonstrating that you can apply lift engineering principles to maintenance and fault diagnosis. As a qualified Lift Engineer, you will need to demonstrate an excellent level of customer service and some experience of ordering parts would be advantageous.

Express Lifts Alliance Group, or ELA Group, provides multi-disciplined lift management services throughout the UK. Our core business is the supply of a full scope of lift maintenance, modernisation and installation services to both public and private sector businesses across the United Kingdom and Ireland. We are a customer driven company, supported by the adoption of partnering principles and the concept of best value.

On top of your salary package, you will receive a van plus other company benefits, including 25 Days holiday plus our Employee Scholarship program, one of the most comprehensive company-sponsored employee education programs in the world. The program provides employees the resources to stay current in their chosen field or enable new career opportunities.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced lift engineer who is looking to develop their career with a world renowned company. We are interested in receiving applications from Service Lift Engineers, Installation Lift Engineers, Repair Lift Engineers, Modernisation Lift Engineers, Lead Engineers or Principle Engineers who have a valid Driving Licence and who live within Kent, Sussex, Surrey, South East.

We are committed to the continuing development of every employee; therefore we encourage and strongly support career progression, with opportunities for promotion within our organisation and throughout the wider UTC global group.

Otis is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Please note that due to the high volume of responses that we receive for opportunities across the UK, we are unfortunately no longer able to respond to each application directly or to provide further individual feedback. We will however contact you should we select you to attend an interview. Should you not receive a reply from us within 4 weeks, please assume that your application on this occasion has proved unsuccessful.