Proactive Servicing & Maintenance Specialists
Fleet Management & Preventative Care
When heavy machinery and critical fleets fail, operations grind to a halt. At Hickman Engineering, we believe the best repair is the one that never has to happen. We transition your business from costly, reactive breakdowns to planned, budgeted preventative maintenance. We manage and maintain a variety of fleets, machinery, and equipment across the UK, ensuring your assets remain reliable, compliant, and fully operational all year round.
What is Servicing & Maintenance?
Servicing and maintenance is the proactive management of mechanical assets to prevent unexpected failures and extend equipment lifespan. Heavy industrial machinery undergoes intense daily stress. Without regular, scheduled care, minor wear and tear quickly escalates into catastrophic breakdowns. A structured maintenance program involves regular inspections, component replacements, fluid changes, and compliance checks, ensuring your equipment operates safely and efficiently while protecting your capital investment.
Cloud-Based Predictive Maintenance
Managing servicing schedules across multiple assets can be a logistical nightmare. We take that burden off your desk. We input your entire fleet into our bespoke, cloud-based scheduling system. This gives you total visibility over your assets, showing you exactly when servicing is due, tracking compliance regulations like Lloyds stipulations, and helping you visualise where your maintenance budget is best spent.
Comprehensive Maintenance Solutions
Our dedicated engineering team provides tailored support levels to match your exact operational requirements:
Resident Engineers & On-Site Support
For large-scale operations, we can embed our engineers directly into your team. Managed by specialists like Richard Ladlow, we provide resident engineers to major clients like Liberty Steel in Rotherham and C.RO Ports, managing fleets of Terberg and NT Liftec units on-site with daily rosters and impress stock.
Marine Fleet Management
We act as your outsourced marine engineering department. From managing commercial workboats at the APT Immingham Oil Terminal to overseeing complete overhauls on private pleasure craft like the Swan Song Boat Repairs, we handle everything from Lloyds survey preparations to winterisation.
Heavy Plant & Commercial Fleets
We design maintenance plans for HGV haulage fleets, terminal tractors, agricultural combine harvesters, and construction excavators. We replace perished hosing, overhaul engines, and keep your machinery moving efficiently.
Sectors & Case Studies
Our team supports complex engineering requirements across a variety of industries and sectors:
We establish planned, agreement-based maintenance for shipping agents and port authorities, such as our 24-hour call-out coverage for five vessels working within the APT Immingham Oil Terminal in our Local Engineer project.
We create robust maintenance schedules for critical dock infrastructure, partnering with Grimsby Enterprises to run regular inspections and engineering maintenance on their vast Ravestein infrastructure in our Lock Gate Repairs.
We implement scheduled servicing, daily maintenance, and operator checklists for commercial fleets, significantly reducing downtime for the translifters and cassettes at the Rotherham Steel Works.
The 24/7 Flat Rate Promise
Even with the best maintenance plan, emergencies happen. When they do, we operate a continuous response service with a transparent pricing structure. We charge a flat rate regardless of the time or day meaning a Tuesday afternoon costs the exact same as a Bank Holiday. If you are within 20 miles of our Immingham base, we guarantee a 90-minute response time. Contact Hickman Engineering today to discuss your servicing requirements.
