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Workshop Mechanic

Job details
Posting date: 11 July 2024
Salary: £33,251 to £36,955 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 31 July 2024
Location: Lymington, Hampshire
Remote working: On-site only
Company: New Forest District Council
Job type: Permanent
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Summary

Love inspecting, servicing, and repairing a wide variety of vehicles and plant?

We have the perfect job for you in one of our vehicle and plant workshops. You will join two mechanics and a supervisor, based at the Marsh Lane Workshop, Lymington, one of our workshops based around the New Forest. As a skilled HGV Mechanic in our expanding, in-house workshop facility, the work will be varied.

Love problem solving and ensuring quality work?

This role is right up your street as it requires you to have varied skills to undertake routine servicing and maintenance, diagnosing faults on vehicles and plant and undertaking quality repairs. You will have the right industry recognised qualifications, served apprenticeship, with practical knowledge and experience working with a wide range of HGV’s, LCV’s, and plant, providing key services for the local community and businesses.

You will be an enthusiastic mechanic, a team player, with good communication skills and have a wide range of mechanical skills including welding, hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical systems. Having experience in computerised diagnostic systems such as Texa or systems of a similar nature and the ability to trace and rectify intermittent and complex electronic faults as well as resolving other problems by designing and fabricating components to enable repairs to take place is important to us.

Your skills, Knowledge and development are important

You will have good general education and completed a time served apprenticeship and/or be trained to City and Guilds Mechanics Certificate or B Tec equivalent. A minimum of 5 years’ experience in vehicle or plant repairs and maintenance is essential.

A valid driving license is required and preferably hold an HGV license and driver CPC certification. (HGV and CPC training will be provided if you are the right person).

At NFDC we believe that all our employees make a valuable contribution to the work of the Council and that’s why we encourage a trusting and open culture where each employee is supported and respected equally, where ideas are actively sought and self-development promoted, with training encouraged as the industry changes.

What’s in it for you?

26-27 days annual leave plus an additional 5 days for 5 years’ continuous service
Local Government Pension scheme
On-site parking  
Employee Assistance Programme  
Wide range of employee discounts at high street retailers, including supermarkets, stores, and restaurants  
Cycle to Work scheme which could save you around 40% on cycles and accessories   

About us.

As one of the largest districts in the country, with 6 towns and a close relationship with neighbouring conurbations, the New Forest provides a supportive environment in which everyone who works for us can help drive our aims.

We believe that all our employees make a valuable contribution to the work of the council and that’s why we encourage a trusting and open culture where each employee is supported and respected equally. We also recognise the value of a highly motivated and engaged workforce and we actively promote a good work/life balance.

We are proud of our new values for 2024, please watch this short video to find out more. LEAF Learning Empathy Ambition Fairness (youtube.com)

If you're ambitious and passionate, are driven to deliver, and want to be part of our team, we welcome your application.

After reading the job description of what the role will involve, you feel you would like an informal chat about the role, please contact Simon Cooper on 023 8028 5395

Closing date: 31/07/2024

Interview Date: 06/08/2024

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