Mobile Technician

About The Role

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Mobile Technician looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together...

Brief description We are looking for a technician to join Specialist Fleet Services (SFS) in this home-based role. If you’re located within the M25 corridor and have a minimum of five years’ technical experience on municipal vehicles and previous people management experience, then we’d like to hear from you.

Purpose of the role

To ensure that all repairs, maintenance, and servicing of vehicles is completed to a high standard, and vehicle maintenance and compliance regulations are adhered to at all times. You will also assist with the pre-delivery inspections of new fleet vehicle and assets throughout the customer network.

Duties and responsibilities

• To carry out ministry inspections, LOLERs, MOTs, along with body inspections and services, to comply with customer O’ license and all legal requirements
• Full use of the fleet management system (Fleetwave) as required
• Provide cover for technicians and workshop controllers in the workshop network. This will include completing the workshop specific paperwork and procedures, ensuring parts are ordered, recharges are identified and warranty repairs resolved
• Carry out fleet inspections on the fleet which SFS does not maintain. Completing reports on fleet condition, ensuring the operator is adhering to their requirements and validating the quality of the external maintenance providers
• Ensure all equipment is maintained, used and stored correctly. You must report any failures in operation of the equipment to the workshop controller
• To ensure vehicles are safe before being returned to the customer
• Complete pre-delivery and specification approval inspections

About You

Skills

Qualifications and experience

A minimum of five years' technical experience on municipal vehicles (eg refuse, sweepers, etc), preferably within a workshop environment. Evidence of qualifications and training such as recognised time served on an apprenticeship scheme, VOSA vehicle inspection course or municipal vehicle manufacturing training. A full clean HGV driving license category C is required as a minimum. Previous people management experience essential. Even if you don’t meet all the criteria,  we encourage you to apply . At Paragon, we  value diversity  and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Working hours

45 hours per week, Monday to Friday (one hour for lunch). Working hours will vary as dependent on business requirements. Extensive travel and overnight stays may be required. Inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

About Us

What can we offer you?

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.