Maintenance Engineer - Hovertravel
Job Posted: 30 July 2026
- Contract Term: Permanent
- Location: Isle of Wight
- Contract Type: Full time
- Salary: from £31,127
- Industries: Engineering
We are seeking a skilled and dedicated Maintenance Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in both electrical and mechanical systems, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that they are fuller conversant with the company SMS & QMS and understand their contribution towards these.
- Ensure that all maintenance requirements are provided in accordance with current legislation, MCA requirements and maintenance schedules
- Attend training and to maintain a satisfactory knowledge of all operational and safety procedures which will allow for successful completion of all mandatory tests
- To establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, management and external contractors, carrying out all duties in an efficient, professional and courteous manner
- Communicate clearly and effectively with management, supervisors and co-workers
- Execution of preventative and corrective maintenance programmes
- Conduct scheduled checks on craft, parts and ground equipment
- Diagnose and repair faults and breakdown problems
- Overhaul and replace parts according to maintenance schedule
- Maintenance of safety equipment ensuring within certification dates
- Conducting quality inspections on all work carried out
- Responding to craft breakdowns and dealing with emergency breakdowns as they occur
- Recommending cost efficient engineering solutions
- Ensure compliance with all Company Quality Management System, and regulatory body requirements
- Ensure all work is carried out in accordance with documented safe working practices and in accordance with Permits to Work and department engineering risk assessments
- Take responsibility for personal Health and Safety; and that of others in the working environment
- Working required shifts to maintain the Hovertravel operational service
- Cary out any other reasonable task as requested by a senior member of staff for which you have been trained and equipped
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Work Location: In person
Hovertravel
Hovertravel is the world’s longest running commercial hovercraft service and is the only scheduled passenger hovercraft service in the Europe. Hovertravel offers the fastest way to cross the Solent between Southsea, Portsmouth and Ryde, Isle of Wight. Hovertravel operate two hovercraft with a frequent service (plus additional services at commuter times) and the journey time is just under 10 minutes. The hovercraft is a tourist attraction in its own right. Hovertravel was established in 1965 and over 30 million passengers have travelled on the service. The advantage of the hovercraft is that they can travel at extremely low tides. If it hadn’t been for the tides, Hovertravel might never have existed. The low tides at Ryde, take the sea out far beyond the town’s esplanade, and it has always been impossible for any ship to berth anywhere near roads or bus routes. Until 1965, the only passenger ferries from Portsmouth stopped at the end of Ryde’s third of a mile long pier. Ferries that travel only in water still have to use the end of the pier today. But Hovertravel seized on the hovercraft’s ability to travel across both water and land and launched their service in 1965. No matter what the tide was doing, passengers could embark and disembark in exactly the right place, with no need to trundle up and down the pier as an additional requirement of their journey. For 60 years, the Hovercraft has been the fastest and most convenient way to cross the Solent, and Hovertravel is proud that it continues to provide its customers with this unique service. Whether it is carrying commuters and school children between Ryde and Southsea, enabling those who live on the Isle of Wight to shop in Portsmouth, access medical facilities, operate a speedy critical transfer service for the NHS, carry tourists to the Isle of Wight, or transport concert-goers to the famous Isle of Wight Festival, the hovercraft is the fastest way to travel across the Solent, going directly from shore to shore. Hovertravel provides a ‘Hoverbus’ service which connects with the Hovercraft at Southsea and conveniently takes passengers to and from Portsmouth Harbour, The Hard & Portsmouth & Southsea Train Stations. There are also large car parks at the terminal, coach parking nearby and National Express coach stops opposite the terminal. Once on the Isle of Wight you will land in a prime seafront position, alongside Ryde’s splendid beaches and boutique shops, where travel links including the train link to Shanklin and buses to other parts of the Island, are next to the terminal. Hovertravel offers great value all-inclusive travel and attraction tickets to incorporate the Island’s buses and trains and entrance to many superb attractions from historical manors and steam trains to adventure and animal parks. Hovertravel has two craft in its fleet Island Flyer & Solent Flyer, all operating as and when required.
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