HGV Mechanic Technician

Salary: £20.4 – £22.8 per hour

HGV Technician

Permanent/ Full time

Monday to Friday, 45 hours per week (day shifts only)

Letchworth, SG6

Are you a qualified HGV Technician looking for a new opportunity to enhance your skills and knowledge further? Would you like to be part of a growing and friendly team invested in providing a quality service?

Our Letchworth depot is recruiting for a hardworking and dedicated HGV Technician to join their brilliant team. As an integral member of the depot, you will be supporting their overarching team goal of making a difference to all of our customers by ensuring all vehicles are serviced, repaired and maintained to the highest standard.

What do you get?

Free onsite parking.

Twenty-five days holiday, plus bank holidays.

Increasing holiday entitlement for long service (capped at 30 days).

All new starters are automatically enrolled into the group life assurance scheme.

Workplace pension scheme.

An opportunity to work for the leading European Company in our field.

What will you be doing?

• To ensure all service and inspection documentation is correctly completed.
• Management of individual workload and job assignment.
• Accurate completion of job sheets and quantification of time.
• Use of workshop equipment in a correct manner.
• Contribute towards effective “preventative maintenance”.
• Ensure Health and Safety regulations are adhered to at all times.
• Correctly record the use of parts.
• Supply own tools as specified by the Company.
• Complete all work to a “right-first-time standard”.
• Prepare and submit vehicles to a standard appropriate for issuing an annual test certificate.
• Communicate accurately with Foreman / Manager about Work in Progress and any anticipated delays or issues.
• Ensure that knowledge aligns with modern technologies and developments applicable to the role.
• Ensure that good housekeeping standard are maintained at all times.
• Any other ad-hoc duties as required.

What are we looking for? 

Essential:

• Excellent knowledge of mechanics & electrics.
• Full Driving Licence (preferably including full HGV entitlements).
• Appropriate technical qualifications.
• Excellent understanding of vehicle maintenance requirements and procedures.
• Practical verbal and written skills and solid decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Planning and time management.
• Apprenticeship training as a commercial fitter.
• Extensive experience as a mechanic in a retail vehicle environment.
• City & Guilds levels 1 & 2

Desirable: 

• Excellent knowledge of transport refrigeration.
• Experience in training apprentices.
• Knowledge of the Transportation and Logistics industry.
• Strong PC literacy.
• Understanding of vehicle maintenance.
• Refrigeration experience.
• City & Guilds level 3.

To apply, please submit your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will contact you.