The Steelwork Field Engineer at Dematic plays a key role in the EMEA Steelwork Operations Team, providing expert technical guidance across the design, implementation, and execution of steelwork scopes on complex material handling projects. Acting as the on-site authority for steelwork standards, the role leads and coordinates site teams and subcontractors to ensure safe, high-quality, and right‑first‑time installation in full alignment with Dematic’s project objectives and EHS requirements.We offer:
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
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- Provide safety education and coaching to subcontractor teams, promoting hazard awareness, behavioural safety observations, and a strong safety-first culture.
- Act as a positive safety role model, ensuring right-first-time steelwork installation and alignment with a unified site safety culture.
- Monitor adherence to RAMS, offering effective supervision in high-risk activities and ensuring compliance on site.
- Produce accurate, timely, and evidence-based safety and progress reports using cloud-based tools (e.g. Gensuite).
- Coordinate and supervise all on-site steelwork activities, driving safety and quality compliance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Carry out and oversee regular quality checks, recording quality incidents and trends using QMS reporting systems.
- Collaborate with the Site Manager to contribute to the Site Installation Plan for steelwork and manage delays, defects, and remedial actions.
- Ensure successful, defect-free handover of steelwork to mechanical installation teams and support through to customer handover.
- Serve as the primary on-site contact for steelwork-related safety and technical queries within assigned areas or PLC zones.
- Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Procurement, and Project Management teams to resolve issues and improve delivery.
- Drive productivity improvements and optimisation initiatives to enhance production and assembly rates on site.
- Mentor and support team members, sharing specialist steelwork knowledge and supporting succession planning.
- Identify energy, material, and resource waste on site and implement improvements to reduce and minimise waste.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Minimum 5+ years of relevant industry experience, including field engineering at a similar level and expert knowledge of steel structures for material handling systems.
- Strong ability to carry out structural analysis, determine connection details, perform basic sizing and cost calculations, and technically evaluate RFQs and supplier information.
- Proven capability to contribute to cost-effective technical solutions, collaborate on constructive design, and support the creation of 2D/3D steelwork drawings.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, including acting as an EMEA technical point of contact and managing, auditing, and coordinating suppliers and subcontractors.
- Solid knowledge of statutory regulations and structural standards, proficiency in MS Office, AutoCAD and Tekla, with safety qualifications (e.g. NEBOSH/IOSH, First Aid) considered desirable.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Expert knowledge of steel structures for material handling systems
- Strong ability to carry out structural analysis
- Proficiency in MS Office, AutoCAD and Tekla
- Safety qualifications (e.g. NEBOSH/IOSH, First Aid)
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
