Workshop General Hand / Workshop Assistant - Crown Auckland

About the role

Crown Equipment is a well-respected global material handling equipment company which has enjoyed over 40 years of success in the New Zealand market. The company has a widely distributed sales and service branch network located across the North and South Island locations. The company brand is well-known and respected in the marketplace and is supported by a customer value proposition based on highly skilled staff, quality products, strong service and parts back-up and leading-edge technology.

We have an exciting opportunity following an internal promotion for you to join a stable workshop and enjoy the variety and opportunities of working with a small close-knit, supportive team within a large organization.

Reporting to the Workshop Manager, this is a varied and truly hands on role that will see you involved mainly in ensuring that the workshop and yards are maintained, trucks are located in the correct sites and providing physical help to the Transport drivers as they load and unload equipment.

Your day-to-day duties will include :

• devanning international shipments and packing national container shipments
• assisting with local deliveries and tagging imported and returned equipment
• maintaining the housekeeping of all plants and the yard and providing our service technicians with support to maintain the team’s productivity across the workshop
• washing equipment returned by customers
• physically checking all upcoming deliveries of machines, ensuring the machines have been charged and are located in the dispatch area

Working with the team, you’ll ensure that our customers are provided with great service. The greatest focus of our teams is to work together with our customers to support them to keep their businesses on the go!

This is a permanent, full-time role, Mondays to Fridays and offering paid overtime. You'll work in our Auckland workshop in East Tamaki but may occasionally be required to travel to our Hamilton branch.

About you

We're looking for someone with an interest in the automotive industry or who is mechanically-minded. To shine in this role, you’ll bring your enthusiastic personality, customer-focused attitude and good work ethic to our business and be prepared to work closely and collaboratively with the rest of our team. It’s important to have a strong team attitude and great interpersonal and communication skills for this role. The ability to build rapport and relationships should be your strength and you’ll be IT savvy too. Attention-to-detail is essential. There will be manual handling and some heavy lifting required and so you’ll need to be physically fit.

Please note – A pre-employment medical, including drug test and criminal background check is required as well as the legal right to work permanently in NZ.

What we can offer you

In return, we’ll offer you a great market-related pay rate, other employee benefits, excellent opportunities for training and development, and a strong and supportive team environment. As a large company, there are great opportunities for career training and development.

The career opportunities are exciting! Crown Lift Trucks NZ has a culture of career paths and development and career progression, with people in our business staying for up to 40 years and enjoying a varied career. For those coming into the business at an entry-level, we’re able to offer opportunities to start a career in Warehousing & Distribution, Sales and Forklift Trade.

If this sounds like the role for you, then apply on line today!

Come join the NZ lift truck market leader, as there is nothing like a Crown for picking it up and putting it down. 2000 Crown Ltd.

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