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About the role
Panel Beater
What's the role about?
Based at our site in Bracknell, our Technician team ensures our fleet of Partnership Vehicles remain well maintained and road-worthy.
As a Panel Beater within the team, you'll be working on a wide variety of vehicles from our 3.5 Tonne Delivery Vans right through to LGVs. It will be your job to repair any damage to the metal, plastic or fibreglass areas as well as carrying out routine maintenance and modifications inline with the manufacturers specifications.
At a glance
* This is a permanent position, working Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 16:30.
* The salary offered for this role is up to £42,700 for 37.5 hours per week with OTE of £50,000+. This is equivalent to £21.82 per hour. There are also opportunities for overtime.
Typical duties of a Panel Beater within our workshop
* Panel Straightening and Filling
* Replacement of Panels
* Welding and Bonding
* Repairs to Fibreglass and plastic panels
* Livery application (Training provided)
* Maintenance repairs to Trailer shutters and tail lifts (Training provided)
Essential skills you'll need
* City and Guilds 1,2,3 Vehicle Body Repair or NVQ/QVS equivalent qualification
* Previous working experience within a Panel Beater role
* Full UK driving licence
* A proven background in all aspects of panel beating, filling, fibreglassing, pin pulling, steel and aluminium MIG welding
* A knowledge of commercial vehicle legislation and road-worthiness
Benefits of the Partnership and the Role
* You will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis and 20% in Waitrose
* 22 days paid holiday per year, increasing to 25 after 5-years service
* The Partnership has a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)
* Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy
About The Partnership
We're the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We're not just employees, we're Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there's never been a more exciting time to join us.
We're ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we're free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it. #J-18808-Ljbffr