Service Technician

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 21 August 2025
LOCATION
Bedford
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Associate
CATEGORY
Skilled Trades
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SKILLS

Maintenance Mechanical Electrical Troubleshooting Maintenance Planning FMCG Automated Systems

FULL DESCRIPTION

Summary

The Service Technician will be performing maintenance duties to ensure productivity and output, equipment availability, health & safety compliance and quality. Key responsibilities include ensuring a top condition of installations, performing malfunction and maintenance work, carrying out preventive and periodic maintenance, and resolving mechanical, electrical, and control technical faults.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring a top condition of the various installations
  • Performing malfunction and maintenance work
  • Carrying out preventive and periodic maintenance
  • Resolving mechanical, electrical and any control technical faults

Core Requirements:

  • City & Guilds / NVQ level 3 or above in maintenance mechanical / electrical discipline.
  • Willing to work shifts including nights
  • Experience with maintenance planning

Job area

Life Cycle Services

Location

Bedford, United Kingdom.

Contract type

Full time

The company

Vanderlande is the market leader in efficient logistics process automation within the airports and parcel sector. In addition, we are a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses.

At Vanderlande, we understand the complexities of running a successful retail business. As such, we have defined the next generation of scalable solutions – evolutions. They are designed to deliver the highest level of flexibility and scalability, that can facilitate store-friendly deliveries.

Your role

Working within our Sainsbury’s Distribution Centre, the Service Technician will be performing maintenance duties to ensure productivity and output, equipment availability, health & safety compliance and quality. You will be performing the following tasks:

  • Ensuring a top condition of the various installations
  • Responsible for performing malfunction and maintenance work as well as carrying out preventive and periodic maintenance, in collaboration with colleagues.
  • Resolving mechanical, electrical and any control technical faults

What we expect from you

As a Service Technician you make an important contribution to customer satisfaction, whereby the continuity of the customer process is central. You therefore have an enthusiastic and proactive attitude and are flexible. We expect the following of you:

  • You are in the possession of a City & Guilds / NVQ level 3 or above in maintenance mechanical / electrical discipline.
  • Willing to work shifts including nights
  • Experience with maintenance planning

NOTE: Due to the nature of the business you will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service ( DBS ) check.

What we see as a nice to have:

You have gained experience within an FMCG manufacturing or automated environment

Experience in training/coaching

What we offer:

  • Performance related pay
  • Opportunity to develop and progress within Vanderlande
  • Bupa Medical Cover
  • YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers.
  • A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities for career progression.
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