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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Appointed to install new lift equipment on behalf of Kone. Direct report to Installation Manager.
• Provided complete electrical/mechanical Installation of new Kone bespoke lifts within new and existing shafts.
• Conducted site surveys to measure, confirm dimensions and recommend practical and economical solutions to Supervisor prior to installation.
• Conducted ongoing Health and Safety and Risk management throughout installations.
• Involved in assisting other engineers with any difficult technical electrical or mechanical faults.

London, United Kingdom

• Appointed to install new lift equipment on behalf of Mitsubishi. Direct report to Installation Manager.
• Provided complete electrical/mechanical Installation of new Mitsubishi lifts within new and existing shafts.
• Conducted site surveys to measure, confirm dimensions and recommend practical and economical solutions to Supervisor prior to installation.
• Conducted ongoing Health and Safety and Risk management throughout installations.
• Received ‘on the job’ training on Mitsubishi lifts, NVQ 3 installation and commissioning, manual handling, harness and Alimak.
• Managed ordering of materials and keeping expenditure in agreed budget.

Aylesbury

• Appointed with brief to service and repair platform lifts either on own or on larger repairs with another service engineer. Reported to Deputy Service Manager.
• Provided complete electrical/mechanical/hydraulic fault rectification servicing and repair service on existing customer’s equipment.
• Completed 5 or 6 service/repair jobs/day covering an area 80-miles radius of the office.
• Managed service van spares including re-ordering spares ensuring 95% of spares carried on van enabling an ability to price up and agree immediate repairs with customer.
• All jobs successfully completed ‘right first time’.

Caterham

• Provided fault rectification servicing and repair service on various lifting equipment or fitting new lifts in hospitals, care homes and individual people’s homes coming under the care of local Council contracts.
• Provided complete electrical/mechanical/hydraulic fault rectification servicing and repair service on existing customer’s equipment and installation of new equipment including: -
• New equipment installed: stair lifts, platform lifts, overhead hoists, scissor & platform lifts.
• Service/repair equipment: stair lifts, through floor lifts, hoists, platform lifts, scissor and platform lifts.
• Conducted sites surveys to measure, confirm dimensions and recommend practical and economical solutions to clients prior to repair or upgrade.
• Completed 8 or 10 service/repair jobs/day covering an area 15-miles radius of the first daily call.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Appointed to install updated lift cars and equipment to existing lifts, surveying sites before ordering equipment. Direct report to Renovations & Modernisation Manager.
• Provided complete electrical/mechanical fault rectification servicing and repair service on existing equipment or the fitting of new (Schindler, Kone, ThyssenKrupp and Otis) lifts.
• Conducted site surveys to measure, confirm dimensions and recommend practical and economical solutions to clients prior to repair or upgrade.
• Received ‘on the job’ training on Schindler, Kone, ThyssenKrupp and Otis lifts.
• Managed ordering of materials and keeping expenditure in agreed budget.
• Repairing old lifts/elevators often needed to realign parts/brackets to ensure correct fitting.

Hertford

• Set up own company providing disability lift services, survey and installation of equipment on behalf of multiple manufacturers, tendering toward council contracts, sales to commercial and private customers
• Provided complete electrical/mechanical installation, fault rectification servicing and repair service on existing equipment or the fitting of new lifts/stair lifts and hoists working as approved contractor for EMS.

Essex

Appointed to survey and install stair lifts and act as technical advisor/trainer to service engineers.

Baldock

• Appointed with remit to manage and train engineers on the installation and fault finding on stair lifts. Managed 15 installation engineers. Reported to MD.
• Trained 14 engineers and assisting engineers with any technical electrical or mechanical faults.
• Identified manufacturing error on swivel seat mechanism on stair lift manufactured new modification, subsequently taken on by the manufacturer Lift Able (part of ThyssenKrupp).

Essex

Appointed as sales advisor advising people on mobility aids from retail shop based in Stevenage; promoted to Assistant Manager in 1998.