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HGV Driver/Workshop Operative

Job details
Posting date: 01 May 2024
Salary: £39,312 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 30 May 2024
Location: Avonmouth, South West, BS35 4DF
Company: Perfect Placement UK Ltd
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 52798119

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Summary

HGV Driver/Workshop Operative required in Avonmouth region.

- Starting salary up to £16.80 per hour.
- 45 hour week Monday-Friday 7:00am-4:30pm with half hour unpaid lunch.
- Fantastic long-term career prospects with an award-winning commercial vehicle accident repair centre operating since 1991.

Our client, the South West’s leading accident repair specialist with over twenty five years experience, are currently looking to recruit a HGV Driver/Workshop Operative to work from their premises in Avonmouth.

Reporting to the Centre Manager, as a HGV Driver/Workshop Operative your main duties will include:

- Collection and delivery of customer vehicles. This can be anything from trucks, trailers, vans, coaches, and horse boxes.
- The safe parking up and organisation of the yard – particularly so that access to the next job is made as easy as possible.
- Moving vehicles in and out of the workshops and from our client's trailer yard.
- Washing and valeting vehicles along with checking vehicles over before returning them back to the customer.
- Ensuring that all company vehicles are regularly washed and kept clean and that all fluids, oil, lights, and tyres etc. are also checked and maintained correctly.
- Helping recycle waste, plastics, paper, cardboard, and all recyclables along with sorting all other general waste into appropriate bins.
- Generally helping out and assisting colleagues where required and working as a team.

In order to be eligible you will need to live within a reasonable commuting distance of Avonmouth as well as having a HGV driving licence with minimal points. Previous experience in a similar collection/delivery role or experience working with vehicles or in a similar workshop/yard operative role would be highly advantageous to our client however isn't essential as training is provided. Overall you will be logistically minded, be a team player, organised, presentable, and a good planner with a thorough understanding of the South West region.

What's in it for you? For your hard work as a Vehicle Technician, our client is offering…

- Starting salary up to £16.80 per hour (£39,312 per annum).
- 28 days annual leave plus the 8 bank holidays.
- Full in-house training and development available.
- Workplace pension scheme.
- Fantastic long-term career prospects with an award-winning commercial vehicle accident repair centre operating since 1991.
- 45 hour week Monday-Friday 7:00am-4:30pm with half hour unpaid lunch.

If this HGV Driver/Workshop Operative vacancy interests you or if you would like to find out about other Motor Trade Jobs in Avonmouth, please contact Hamish Lowrie at Perfect Placement now!

Our team of Automotive Recruitment Consultants all share a passion for finding our job seekers the best jobs in the Automotive Industry. So, if you are looking to improve your career and want to hear about more Motor Trade Jobs in your local area, please contact us today.

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