Vehicle Prepper

We are looking for a vehicle prepper, with a passion for the automotive industry that puts quality at the beginning of every process. Your keen eye and technical knowledge will ensure that vehicles within the cosmetic teams are accurately repaired to Motability standards. Proficient in using the latest methods, we are looking for someone who enjoys working in a dynamic environment, collaborating with your team to achieve goals.

Reporting into the cosmetic team leads, the principal objective of this role is to ensure that vehicles are prepared for primer and paint in accordance with the required reconditioning standards. Our vehicle preppers play a crucial role in the workshop, ensuring that vehicles are prepared for both primer and paint, using the relevant methods in accordance with the Motability standards.

Using your technical skills and knowledge and working with state-of-the-art equipment and products, the key areas are to repair, prime and prepare panels ready for paint.

• Able to legally drive a manual vehicle in the UK
• Panel preparation experience
• Masking and sheeting experience
• Primer experience
• Accident repair experience

We exist to deliver smart, sustainable solutions that improve our customers' mobility in a fast-changing world. We employ over 1800 people, across London, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Coalville. We know our people are key to our success, so we aim to create an environment that allows our employees to flourish. We look for highly motivated people with a combination of commercial sense and real enthusiasm to meet our customers' needs.

We work in a hybrid way. That means remotely for up to two days each week and in our great office spaces the rest of the time. This gives us a good work/life balance and lets us collaborate and deliver for our customers. We do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests, where possible, to build on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

We believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a nurturing culture. And our people to be rewarded equally, regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

• Pay: competitive salary, with a yearly discretionary bonus, based on your performance
• Holiday: 28 days, and you can buy and sell days
• Pension: 15% non-contributory pension (9% during probation)
• Health and wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance cover available for all employees and free health screenings for over 50s. Life assurance at four times your basic salary, to give you peace of mind. Free access to healthcare apps like Peppy, Unmind, and Aviva Digital GP. Mental Health Allies and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Development: A library of internal training on our myLearn platform
• Family friendly: We have competitive family leave policies
• Diversity and inclusion: We embrace the diversity of our people and empower them to come to work as their true selves. We want them to flourish and be rewarded equally. We have Employee Network Groups, and we pride ourselves on being inclusive and all our offices have first-rate disability access
• Helping our community: One volunteering day each year, and access to volunteering platform Neighbourly
• Schemes: Car Benefit Scheme for electric and hybrid cars. Cycle to Work Scheme. Employee Discount Scheme
• Other voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans, free fresh fruit and snacks in the office

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.