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Workshop Vehicle Engineer

Kautec Recruitment Ltd
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 7 days
Location

Croydon, Surrey CR0 5RD

Salary

£30,000 - £36,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • The Workshop Vehicle Engineer position requires qualified and time-served HGV Technicians with a thorough understanding of commercial vehicle mechanical dynamics.
  • Candidates should ideally possess qualifications such as City & Guilds, NVQ, or equivalent, with additional accreditations like IRTEC being desirable.
  • The role involves carrying out inspections and maintenance on a diverse fleet, including heavy goods vehicles and light commercials.
  • The position offers a vibrant working environment, emphasizing the importance of attitude and customer service alongside technical skills.
  • Salary details are not specified, but candidates should ideally have experience working with HGVs and related vehicles.

Workshop Vehicle Engineer

Our client have been providing first class solutions for many years. It’s the standards that are set in the workshop that go a long to ensuring customer satisfaction at the other end.

We are looking for qualified and time served HGV Technicians who can demonstrate a thorough understanding of commercial vehicle mechanical dynamics.

You can expect to be situated in a positive and vibrant working environment where your efforts will be rewarded. A skills shortage can be trained by way of upskilling. What cannot be trained however is the right attitude and the desire to give your clients a first class service.

You will be carrying out inspections to a varied and diverse fleet.

You could be working on main dealer heavy goods vehicles (HGV#s) refuse collection vehicles, road sweepers, hook loaders, light commercials (vans), trailers and tippers-

The type of work you can expect to be carrying out includes (but is not limited to)

  • Routine (and preventative) maintenance

  • MOT preparation

  • Scheduled servicing to DVSA standards

  • 6 (or 8) weekly inspections

  • Correction of running defects

  • Chassis and fabrication work

  • Hydraulics and pneumatics

  • Improvement of vehicle standards

  • Electrical and wiring inspections and corrections

Ideally you will be fully qualified (City & Guilds), NVQ or equivalent.

Additional accreditations such as IRTEC would be desirable, as would a HGV Class 1 or licence.

So what are you waiting for. Get in touch for further details and start that next journey on your career.

HGV, heavy goods vehicle, commercial vehicle, RCV, refuse collection vehicle, tipper, sweeper, gritter, mechanic, vehicle engineer, vehicle technician, fitter, workshop.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.