Description
Position: HGV Technician
Location: Salisbury
Salary: £50,255 per annum basic
Shift: 4 on 4 off Nights (average 39 hr week)
Hours: 6pm-6am
Benefits:
- 5.6 weeks paid holiday rising to 6.6 weeks upon 5 years’ service
- Contributable Company pension scheme
- Subsidised canteen
- Free parking
- Overtime available
- Retail and leisure discounts plus hundreds more
- Free Financial Advice
- 24/7 confidential counselling and advice line
- Low cost voluntary insured health plans
HGV Technician Opportunity
Due to our continued growth we are now recruiting for experienced Heavy Goods Vehicle Maintenance Technicians to be based at our onsite purpose-built, state of the art HGV Vehicle Maintenance Unit/Workshop.
The unit is Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency equipped, and operates a Tachograph bay with six fully equipped working bays which enables the maintenance and servicing of our modern fleet of vehicles and trailers.
HGV Technician duties:
- Carry out preventative vehicle maintenance and servicing, MOT preparation and repairs to a high standard
- Inspect vehicle engine and mechanical/electrical components to diagnose issues accurately, using computer-based diagnostic equipment
- Repair or replace broken or defective parts and resolve defects
- Road test vehicles to check repairs
- Maintain VMU equipment and working areas to a good, clean condition
- Use hand tools and general garage equipment
- Tail Lift maintenance and vehicle body work repairs, fabrication and basic welding processes
- Complete administrative tasks and reports as requested
HGV Technician experience required:
- Min 3 years’ proven experience as a Vehicle Technician with trailer maintenance experience
- Level 2 City & Guilds or BTECH National in HGV Motor Vehicle Engineering or equivalent UK recognised qualification
- UK Driving licence (HGV category an advantage)
- Experience in fault diagnostic equipment, e.g. Tech tool, STAR and JAL and including trailer systems
- IRTEC inspection licence along with any tail lift inspection certification would be highly beneficial
- Tail lift experience desirable
If you are an HGV Technician and would like to apply for this exciting role with one of the region’s leading employers, make an application via this advert