SALARY: £46,074 per annum
HOURS: 40 per week, Monday - Friday various shifts available
LOCATION: Albert Road, Bristol
Senior Vehicle Technician
About Bristol Waste Company:
What we do is important – we’re here to keep Bristol, and beyond, clean, and safe.
We do this for our city’s residents, workers, visitors, and businesses. Our work helps deliver Bristol’s sustainability targets in partnership with the council.
Bristol Waste’s commercial operation, where we serve businesses and organisations across the region, is also growing.
Our ambition is to provide good quality, value for money services, and we continue to deliver a social value impact worth more than £30 million every year.
We want people who share our values and want to work with us to drive our business forward.
Purpose of the role:
We are looking for an experienced Technician who shares our ambitious vision and values to make Bristol a cleaner and greener place to live and work!
Working in the workshop and reporting to the Workshop Manager, the senior mechanic fitter will lead the Workshop team to ensure service provisions are continuously met.
Duties will include repairing mechanical and electrical systems malfunctions and ensuring vehicles comply with statutory legislation. The post holder will troubleshoot breakdowns and conduct quality control inspections.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, motivate and direct the team, including task allocation, coaching and development of apprentices
- Carrying out routine inspections, MOT preparations and quality control inspections, ensuring vehicles always comply with statutory legislations.
- Carrying out pro-active and re-active maintenance, defects and breakdowns.
- Ensure fleet compliance records and workshop reports are completed correctly in date and efficiently retained.
- Repairing mechanical and electrical systems malfunctions.
- Ability to use vehicle diagnostic software
- Evaluate service / parts options and communicate with the team the best option of repair.
- Evaluate service / parts options and communicate with the team the best option of repair.
- Compile job cards and maintain systems for the recording of fleet compliance records and workshop reports
- Ensure site facilities are secure during opening hours and responsibility for securing the premises at the end of shift
- Take responsibility of parts movements from stock
- Ensure Brand image is of high standard
Essential Requirements and qualifications for the Role:
- Qualifications in vehicle maintenance - G&G level 2/ IRTEC/ Manufacturer or demonstrable ‘qualified by experience’
- Demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and direct a team of technicians
- Effective communication skills
- Hold a full driving licence valid for use in the UK
Full Job Description can be provided upon request.
Our Benefits:
- Annual leave package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays.
- Employer contribution of 5% into the company pension scheme.
- Support for Mental Health, including a BUPA Employee Assistance Programme that provides support covering Mental Health, Financial and Family related topics. We also have Mental Health First Aiders across the business.
- Support for your Physical Health with our BUPA Health Cash Plan (we cover the cost of coverage for you), Cycle to Work scheme and an onsite Physiotherapist. All are free for our colleagues.
- Because we value our colleagues, we want to recruit more employees just like them, which is why we have our employee referral scheme.
- Dedicated learning and development team. We take pride in developing our colleagues and some examples of this include our In-House Driver Development Programme and internal promotions. Many of our Senior Leadership Team have developed from Operational roles, such as one of our Contract Managers who started as a Street Cleanser.
- Employee recognition ‘Stand Out Award’ and long service awards. To celebrate our colleagues wherever they are on their journey with us, we recognise and celebrate talent.
- We recognise that everyone is different and strive to create an environment that supports all colleagues through flexible working. We have introduced a hybrid working model where possible and actively encourage part-time working, job sharing and flexibility on hours. If this interests, you please do get in touch, and we can start a conversation.
Everyone belongs:
At Bristol Waste everyone belongs – we are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation.
We give fair and equal consideration to all applications.
We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence.
Important note on applying:
- Please apply as soon as possible and before 23:59 on the closing date. Sometimes we close vacancies early if we receive a high number of quality applications.
- Due to the high volume of interest, we won’t be able to receive late applications and we are currently unable to respond to all who apply.
- If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, it unfortunately means you won’t be invited to interview on this occasion.
Contact us:
Please contact our People Services team to discuss this role, your application, or any reasonable adjustments and support in applying for this position:
- recruitment@bristolwastecompany.co.uk
- 0117 440 6676
Thank you for your interest in joining Bristol Waste Company.