General information

Working time: Full time

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

City: Bovington

Number of hours per week: 37

Gross salary: 27500

Timeframe: Yearly

Description

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As a Vehicle Mechanic, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. With your skills and experience, you’ll be undertaking the servicing, repair, maintenance and overhaul of vehicles and electrical equipment, including diagnostic and inspection duties. You’ll also be carrying out equipment examination to meet production requirements.

 

Day to day, you’ll be carrying out work to the required standard and specification as detailed in accordance with customer requirements, current regulations, local instructions, process plans and other technical publications. You’ll also ensure stores and equipment issued to job are used for their correct purpose.


This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at 1 of our 3 sites around Bovington and Lulworth. The role offers an excellent work/life balance with the option to work 4 or 4.5 days a week. A typical working pattern will be Monday – Thursday, 0700 – 1645

Required skills:

  • Previous experience within similar role is required 
  • Hydraulics experience
  • Dealership or Local Garage experience
  • A real team player with the ability to adapt and build rapport

 

Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic

  • NVQ Level 3 Service and Repair
  • This role would ideally suit an ex-REME Class 1 VM with current competencies, but this is not an essential requirement.

 

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

 

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Your responsibilities:

  • Diagnose, inspect and assess vehicles and associated mechanical and/or electrical equipment in line skills and competency
  • Ensure stores and equipment issued to job are used for their correct purpose and un-used or new faulty material is returned to the section / department Team Leader as soon as it is identified
  • Creation of job cards and demanding material where the relevant ERP (SAP) training has been completed
  • Completion of vehicle and equipment documentation and test certificates and/or reports to current standards

 

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

 

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.

What we offer:

  • Generous holiday allowance 
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
  • Employee share scheme 
  • Employee shopping savings portal
  • Payment of Professional Fees
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows company's employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
  • ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
  • Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing