Following years of accelerated growth Culina Group is now a £2.2billion+ turnover business, employing over 22,000 staff, with a fleet of more than 5,000 vehicles. Culina Group operates from over 100+ depots across the UK and Ireland, serving more than 1,000 clients over its framework of chilled, ambient, contract packaging solutions and fresh and baked goods.
Company Overview
Culina Asset Management (CAM)
At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!
Job Description
The role requires a thorough understanding of mechanical working and vehicle construction. Ability to communicate with other departments and prioritize workloads to meet deadline. The need to be able to adapt to new methods of working and construction in line with new vehicle and trailer development.
* Keeping up to date with technology changes.
* Ensuring health and safety and legal compliance are not compromised
* To maintain a steady flow of work through the workshop. Ensuring we meet DVSA, and statutory inspection dates.
* Planning of inspections and repairs in conjunction with manpower and business demands, ensuring the work is planned away from busier times of the week.
* Carry out quality inspections on services and repairs that have been completed within the workshop, also on return from external vendor repairs.
* Ensuring technicians book correct time and parts to all jobs, correct coding of repairs IE damage, wear and tear.
* Liaise with transport regularly teams to ensure to keep relationship to a good standard
* Maintain the fleet to keep VOR’s at a level that allows transport to achieve their plans
* Ensuring team work to standard
* Ensuring team work to quoted times and cost
* Reporting to the VMU Controller and Manager
* Responsible for own and team environmental, health and safety standards.
* Paperwork is correct for the technicians on the shift and completed at the required time
* Communicating to Transport and VMU management the current VOR, servicing and defects
* Reporting all VMU, building, equipment and tooling defects and deficiencies.
* Any other tasks as delegated by management.
Qualifications
* Fully qualified and Certificates in HGV maintenance to Level 3
* Lead and work as a part of a team
* Plan and prioritise workload based on business needs.
* Accurate paperwork and document control
* Knowledge of environmental, health and safety standards
* Ability to communicate effectively, to own team and to management.
Additional Information
As part of our drive to make CAM a great place to work, we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.
Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.
Our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:
* Annual Leave – 28 days inclusive of Bank Holidays
* Pension scheme – We want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 5% employee and 3% employer.
* Life Assurance - x2 your annual salary.
* Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year.
* Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses.
* Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the Month and Year, special recognition and long service awards.
* Everyday discounts - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!
If you meet the requirements for the above role and are looking for your next career opportunity, please apply now and become a part of our #WinningTeam!