HGV Mechanic

HGV Fleet Mechanic

Working Pattern: 40 hrs per week Monday to Friday

Location: Queens Drive, Nottingham NG2

Via is currently looking for an HGV Fleet Mechanic to join our Fleet Team based at our Queens Drive Depot in Nottingham.

You will provide a varied range of skills in the maintenance, inspection, repair and testing of Vehicles and Plant to prescribed industry and manufactures standards.

The Job
Key areas of responsibility will include:

• Responsible for repairing, maintaining, inspecting and testing a wide range of vehicles and Plant to prescribed standards and timeframes.
• Accurately complete all required statutory and Internal paperwork, ensuring customers billed correctly and all legal requirements are documented.
• Inspect and prepare HGV & PSV vehicles for Mot to ensure Internal and external operator licences are compliant.
• Attend vehicle and plant breakdowns reported by Internal and external customers.
• Comply with all relevant health safety and environmental legislation and procedures taking personal responsibility for own and others Health and safety.
• Comply with all routine daily checks of vehicles and plant are undertaken recording to legal requirements and reporting any damages or defects found.
• Work as a relief chargehand as and when required to support supervisors with the efficient running of the service.

The Person

Mainly you will be excited to be a vital part of our Fleet Team, but there are just a few other things wed like from you:

• Qualified Mechanic to NVQ level 3 or equivalent in motor vehicle engineering.
• DVSA MOT tester qualification for class 4/5 & 7 (Beneficial but not essential).
• Full UK driving licence (Cat C desirable).
• Practical experience of working in a busy Fleet workshop environment on a wide range of vehicles or plant equipment to agreed manufacturer and internal standards.
• Ability to use specialist vehicle and plant equipment fault diagnostic test equipment (Beneficial but not essential).
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation and practices applicable to a workshop environment.
• Good numeracy and literacy skills with a good standard of written and verbal communications.
• Ability to keep up with industry standards updating knowledge and skills.

About Via

Based in Nottinghamshire, with a multi-skilled local workforce and a range of highly trained staff at a few different locations throughout the county. Via East Midlands provides sustainable highways services for Nottinghamshire and across the wider East Midlands region.

Our roles include highway maintenance, electrical works, mechanics, construction, forestry, road safety, civil engineering and much more. We combine a public-sector service ethos with a strong commercial focus, and we are passionate about innovation and creating and delivering sustainable solutions safely across Nottinghamshire and the wider East Midlands.

Via is a great place to work if you value work-life balance and we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies, including generous annual leave allowances, with flexible working available to our office-based staff. With most of our work being based in the East Midlands, our front-line staff also enjoy short journeys to site each working day.

By joining us you will be part of a growing organisation that positively embraces customer and community aspirations.

If this sounds like you, it would be great to hear from you.