Job description
HGV / Truck Technician - Uttoxeter area
Our client, the best motor trade employers in the East Staffordshire area, is looking to recruit a qualified, professional and competent experienced HGV/Truck Technician.
Our clients Technicians are an integral part of the team and use their industry expertise to ensure that our client keeps their customers and their businesses moving by responding quickly and delivering excellent standards of work.
The job:
Act as an expert for all service work and defined assembly and work of the utmost quality and efficiency, and accordingly promote the brand image with respect to reliability and economy.
- Defined retrofitting of accessories and preservation work
- Support the Systems Technicians in more extensive repair jobs on the overall system
Key accountabilities:
- Performance of all services according to the manufacturer's instructions and according to the schedule/service processor
- All visual inspections, adjustment operations, adjustments, operating fluid changes and additions, replacement of worn equipment (e.g. brake linings)
- Knowledge of deviations and extraordinary wear occurrences and initiation of order expansions/feedback to customers
- Resetting of the maintenance system
- Cleaning and care of the customer vehicle
- Repair work
- Self-reliant performance of simple repairs of worn parts (e.g. replacement of mufflers, outside mirrors, tyres and balancing, etc.)
- Performance of defined, but also more extensive, assembly work and repair operations in cooperation with and/or under the supervision of Systems Technicians (e.g. major assembly replacement, suspension strut placement, etc.)
- Retrofitting and start-up of accessories and detachable body components
- Skills and Competencies Required:
Prior experience in a similar role, in a similar industry or main dealership (desired)
- Full City & Guilds qualifications required - certified technician in an automotive service field (essential)
- UK Driving Licence (essential)
- HGV Licence (desired)
- Analytical thinking - ability to analyses and synthesises a wide range of information in order to draw conclusions or make decisions
- Customer orientation - ability to focus on the needs of the customer in the execution of the role and works to deliver customer satisfaction
- Disciplined work approach - tackles tasks in a structured systematic manner, ensuring completion to plan and to quality standards
- Flexibility - adapts and responds to different ways of working in the face of changing situations
- Team working - contributes positively to a team in order to achieve common business objectives
Salary:
£19 per hour/£39, per annum + up to £ per month based upon your qualification level
Hours:
Monday - Friday, rotating weekly shift pattern of 06:00am - 2:30pm / 12:30pm - 9:00pm
Holidays:
23 days' holiday each year, plus bank holidays
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted car scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free on-site parking
- Long service awards
- Paid volunteer time
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
If this sounds like you we would love to hear from you, please apply with an up to date CV and we will be in touch to discuss your application further.