Mobile Repair Technician

Location: London, GB, HA4 0QH
Onsite or Hybrid: Field based
Job Title: Mobile Repair Technician
Location: Ruislip, Middlesex
Compensation: £39,009.84 + Shift Allowance + MRT Allowance + On-Call Allowance Benefits
Role Type: Full-time / Permanent 
Role ID: SF61840

The role

• As a Mobile Repair Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will join our team delivering our vehicle and equipment contract with the London Fire Brigade, which delivers and ensures high levels of operations asset availability covering 460 vehicles across 39 categories and operational equipment, ranging from heavy and light vehicles to hydraulic rescue equipment. 
• Day-to-day, you’ll inspect, diagnose, and repair any of the LFB’s assets at their operating or Training locations throughout greater London. This ensures that a process of continuous improvement is maintained concerning improving the quality, reliability, and thus availability of the current fleet, reducing the incidence of in-service defects, and, wherever practicable, eliminating the incidence of repeated defects.
• Diagnose faults and test vehicles utilizing technical equipment and procedures and techniques, including road testing where deemed necessary.
• Ensure that the company vehicle is roadworthy at all times and that any necessary repairs and scheduled maintenance events are planned in good time.
• Ensure the correct completion of all job-related documentation; effective post-rectification write-ups,
• Mobile Tranman processes, and parts ordering.
• Identify all cases of recharge costs advising the MRT Controller and providing the appropriate supporting documentation and media.

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools, or standing for extended periods and involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full-time, 40 hours per week, and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites every week. 

Essential experience of the Mobile Repair Technician

• Proven experience as a qualified motor vehicle technician
• Hold a Full UK Driving License (Category B essential & Category C desirable)
• Good diagnostic skills 
• Quality awareness
• Understanding of basic health & safety requirements 
• Ability to read/comprehend technical instructions 

Qualifications for the Mobile Repair Technician

• City & Guilds 1 & 2 in Motor Vehicle Studies or equivalent NVQ levels 2 & 3
• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
• Security Clearance
• The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme 
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days of special paid leave 
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organization or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance program supporting physical, mental, and financial well-being.