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Grow your career with the UK experts in safety and lifting solutions
Are you passionate about safety and looking for a rewarding career in a growing industry? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where your work makes a real difference? If so, we’d love for you to explore a career with us.
At Safety Liftin Gear, we’re proud to be a leading provider of lifting and height safety solutions. We’re committed to delivering top-quality products and services and to helping our team grow, succeed, and feel valued along the way. Join a company where your skills, ideas, and dedication truly make an impact.
Current Opportunities
We’re always looking for talented, motivated individuals to join our nationwide team.
Lifting Equipment Engineer
Location: UK | Full-Time | Permanent
Competitive Salary + Overtime + Training + Career Growth + Bonus Scheme + Company Pension
The Role:
We welcome ongoing enquiries from lifting equipment engineers across the UK for current and future opportunities. Our engineers inspect, repair, and test lifting, materials handling, electrical, and fall protection equipment - both in our depots and at customer sites. You may also help with local deliveries and support depot operations.
What You’ll Need:
- ✓Strong mechanical and electrical skills
- ✓Experience with fault-finding and equipment repairs
- ✓Customer-focused with good communication skills
- ✓Attention to detail for inspections and reporting
- ✓LEEA qualification desirable, or willingness to work towards it
Why Work With Us?
- ✓Be part of a respected, long-standing company
- ✓Work with a wide variety of tools, equipment and clients
- ✓Ongoing training, including the chance to earn a LEEA qualification
- ✓Varied role across workshop and customer site work
- ✓Supportive, knowledgeable team in a growing business
Depot Manager - Cardiff
Location: Cardiff | Full-Time
Competitive Salary + Commission + Company Pension + Leadership Training and Development
The Role:
We’re looking for an ambitious, commercially focused Depot Manager to join our team in Cardiff. You’ll lead the day-to-day operation of the depot, drive sales growth, deliver exceptional customer service, and ensure high standards across performance, safety, equipment, and customer relationships.
Your Responsibilities:
- ✓Daily operational management of the depot
- ✓Drive sales growth and deliver exceptional customer service
- ✓Build and maintain strong customer relationships
- ✓Manage branch budgets, cost control and P&L performance
- ✓Monitor KPIs and identify opportunities to improve performance
- ✓Manage equipment quality, fleet standards and depot presentation
- ✓Champion health, safety and compliance across all depot activities
- ✓Maximise equipment utilisation, stock availability and operational efficiency
- ✓Maintain accurate business data and operating systems
- ✓Encourage teamwork, accountability and continuous improvement
What We’re Looking For:
- ✓ Management experience within plant hire, tool hire, construction, builders’ merchants, logistics, or a similar operational environment
- ✓Strong commercial awareness with experience managing branch performance
- ✓Proven leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop people
- ✓Excellent communication and customer relationship skills
- ✓A proactive, hands-on approach with strong organisational ability
- ✓Commitment to maintaining the highest standards of health and safety
What You’ll Receive:
- ✓Competitive salary
- ✓Commission
- ✓Company pension
- ✓Ongoing leadership training and development
- ✓Supportive leadership team
Depot Manager - Southampton
Location: Southampton | Full-Time | Permanent
Competitive Salary + Commission + Company Pension + Leadership Training and Development
The Role:
We’re looking for an ambitious, people-focused and commercially minded Depot Manager to lead our Southampton depot. For us, this role is much more than managing the day-to-day operation. We’re looking for a strong leader and strategic thinker who can bring out the best in people, build a positive workplace culture and drive the depot forward.
Experience within plant hire, tool hire, construction, or a similar industry would be an advantage, but it isn’t essential. We can teach the industry to the right person. What’s more important is finding someone with leadership capability, commercial mindset, and ambition to grow with the company and build their career with us.
Your Responsibilities:
- ✓ Lead, motivate and develop the depot team, creating a positive, accountable and high-performing workplace culture
- ✓ Take overall responsibility for the daily operational management of the depot
- ✓ Think strategically about the depot’s performance and identify opportunities for growth and improvement
- ✓ Drive sales growth while ensuring exceptional customer service
- ✓ Build and maintain strong, long-term customer relationships
- ✓ Manage branch budgets, costs and P&L performance
- ✓ Monitor KPIs and turn performance data into clear actions and improvements
- ✓ Develop your team through regular coaching, feedback and clear performance expectations
- ✓ Manage equipment quality, fleet standards and depot presentation
- ✓ Champion health, safety and compliance across all depot activities
- ✓ Maximise equipment utilisation, stock availability and operational efficiency
- ✓ Maintain accurate business data and operating systems
- ✓ Encourage teamwork, accountability, communication and continuous improvement across the depot
- ✓ Work closely with the wider leadership team to support the company’s longer-term growth and objectives
What We’re Looking For:
Above all, we’re looking for a leader. Someone who can build a strong team, create the right culture, and balance the needs of our people, customers, and business.
- ✓ Proven experience successfully leading, motivating and developing a team
- ✓ A strategic mindset with the ability to see the bigger picture while remaining comfortable getting involved in day-to-day operations
- ✓ A genuine passion for building a positive workplace culture where people feel valued, supported and accountable
- ✓ Strong commercial awareness and the confidence to take ownership of business performance
- ✓ The ability to coach people, manage performance and develop future talent
- ✓ Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- ✓ A proactive, hands-on and solution-focused approach
- ✓ Strong organisational and decision-making skills
- ✓ A commitment to maintaining high standards of health and safety
- ✓ The ambition and potential to grow into greater responsibilities as the company continues to develop
- ✓ Experience within plant hire, tool hire, construction, builders’ merchants, logistics or a similar operational environment would be beneficial, but it is not essential
What You’ll Receive:
- ✓Competitive salary
- ✓Commission
- ✓Company pension
- ✓Ongoing leadership training and development
- ✓Support from an experienced leadership team
- ✓Opportunities to develop and progress within the company
We’re looking for someone who doesn’t simply want to manage a depot. We want someone who wants to lead a team, shape the culture, grow the business and build their future with us.
Don’t see the right role?
We’re always happy to hear from talented people. Send your CV and cover letter to our careers team and we’ll keep your details on file for future opportunities.
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