Role: Service Centre Technician

Location: Knutsford, Parkgate Industrial Estate

Working Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30am till 5pm. 40 hours per week

We’re looking for a hands-on service centre technician to join our Knutsford team. If you enjoy working with mechanical components, love problem-solving, and like being part of a supportive team, this service centre technician role is perfect for you.

It’s an exciting time to become a service centre technician, as Oliver Valves continues to grow as one of the UK’s fastest-growing family-owned valve manufacturers.

About Us

With over 45 years of valve technology innovations, Oliver Valves is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and supply of high-quality valves and valve systems, serving industries such as oil and gas, petrochemical, and other critical sectors. We have won recognised awards for Export, Manufacturing and Growth – as well as the coveted Queens Award and more recently Kings Award for Industry. We’re a profitable, privately owned, and fast-moving company looking for talented individuals to join our team and deliver our strategic objectives.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, the service centre technician will:

• Complete rework processes for Oliver Valves, Oliver Valvetek, Oliver Twinsafe, and Oliver Hydcovalves

• Investigate and analyze client-reported failures and on-site issues

• Inspect components in detail

• Carry out assembly, testing, and remedial rectification work

• Produce clear reports

• Host third-party or client witnesses

• Maintain service centre tooling and test equipment

• Work closely with QA, Sales, Production, and Engineering teams to meet internal standards

• Support R&D by assembling and testing prototype valves

Every day brings a new challenge, and as a service centre technician, you’ll be right at the heart of our operations.

What You’ll Bring

We want a service centre technician who:

• Can assemble mechanical components

• Has experience with hydrostatic and pneumatic pressure testing

• Can inspect components accurately

• Is comfortable with computers and Microsoft packages

• Is reliable, detail-oriented, and proactive

• Works well in a team and has a positive attitude

• Has good numeracy, literacy, and communication skills

What’s On Offer?

• Pay rate between £13.50 to £15.50 depending on experience plus discretionary annual bonus

• Overtime opportunities at x1.5 your hourly rate

• Guaranteed hours in a clean low risk environment (no overnight or rotating shifts)

• Annual leave starting at 31 days a year (includes bank holidays)

• Great benefits including: pension (you put in 5%, we put in 4%), cash plan to reimburse you for medical expenses (dental, optical, physio and more), retailer discount platform, Life Assurance ("Death in Service"), long service awards, and Employee Assistance Programme

• Training opportunities including apprenticeships and college courses available