HGV Technician - Wilstead, Bedford job
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HGV Technician – Wilstead, Bedford
Salary up to £23 per hour + overtime available!
£2,000 signing bonus (payable to direct applicants only, £1k in first month, £1k after 6 months)
Shift pattern is Monday to Friday 0600hrs – 1430hrs / 1430hrs - 2300hrs with alternative Saturday morning paid at overtime, time and a half.
We’re looking for skilled and dedicated HGV Technicians to join our team. As a part of Volvo Truck and Bus, you’ll play an essential role in ensuring that our vehicles continue to set the standard for reliability and performance on the road
We can offer you
- Salary up to £23 per hour and £2000 joining Bonus.
- Overtime at time and half Monday – Saturday. Double time on Sundays and bank holidays
- Generous Pension Plan
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Health cash plan- includes Access to dental insurance
- Ignition, our electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Enhanced holiday package 25 days raising to 30 days with service
- Employee savings and retail discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Support for you and your family through an online Wellbeing Centre
- Workwear provided
What will you be doing
- Ensure repairs are carried out according to the manufacturer’s procedures, safely and responsibly
- Ensure repairs are carried out in accordance with Volvo Standard Times using Volvo Special Tools where appropriate
- Assist in the fault diagnosis process
- Comply with warranty procedures during repairs and warranty material on completion of each repair
- Assist with Action Service Europe when required
- Work with the Parts Team to ensure the correct replacement parts are fitted
- Road test vehicles when required (if you hold an HGV licence)
- Assist with roadside breakdowns
- Ensure company time recording procedures are complied with, and that job cards are completed accurately
- Ensure service sheets are completed as per Volvo instructions
- Ensure all vehicle defects are reported to workshop controllers
- Keep all workshop facilities, equipment and tools clean, tidy and well maintained
- Support the development of young trainees and apprentices
Who are you
- City and Guilds, an NVQ3 or equivalent qualification is required
- You’ll also have completed an apprenticeship in the HGV industry, or have equivalent experience, along with relevant experience in the commercial vehicle industry.
- A basic knowledge of computer software packages including Word, Excel and Outlook is preferred, as is a general level of computer literacy.
- we’d expect you to have a basic working knowledge of vehicle technology
We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail.
Additional Benefits
- Company Pension
- Bonus Scheme
About the Company
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.
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