HGV / Plant Workshop Technician in Burton Latimer

Hours: Monday to Friday 40 hours per week

How to apply: If you are interested in any of our positions, please apply by sending us an email with your CV and covering letter to careers@bennie.co.uk.

Company Summary: Bennie can trace its origins with Plant back to the 1930s when Peter Bennie founded the business. Bennie Plant builds on decades of plant experience; leveraging our heritage, expertise and the superb infrastructure we have in our team, facilities, and of course plant fleet, to provide operated plant hire, servicing and sales across the UK. Bennie Plant is part of The Bennie Group, and works alongside sister companies Barton, Boughton, Peter Bennie and Bennie Equipment with plant sales & hire solutions. Bennie Plant is an authorised CAT dealer; we specialise in plant equipment for the construction and production industry. The business has a team of dedicated professionals who pride themselves on delivering quality workmanship and our ‘can do approach’ with many decades of experience in heavy plant. As an employee in a family business, you will be working in a close-knit team environment in a company that has our employees at the centre of everything we do.

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 40 hours per week flexible hours between 07:00 and 18:00 – You are also required to work such additional hours as may be necessary for the proper performance of your duties or that may be required to fulfil the role.

Job Role/Description: As an HGV/LCV Plant Workshop Technician you will be focused on keeping our fleet fully maintained, compliant and moving. Working from our Central Plant workshop with occasional travel as required you will have excellent knowledge, great problem-solving skills and a detailed approach to fixing vehicles and equipment.

Responsibilities:

• To effectively produce high quality of work in an efficient and compliant manner
• Maintain fleet of HGV`s and LCV`s and trailers
• Achieve and maintain any required technical qualifications related to this role
• Diagnose and rectify all types of faults
• Carry out periodic safety inspections to all vehicles
• Complete accurate record systems to ensure that maintenance and service costs are captured against relevant vehicles
• Carry out defect rectification when reported
• Good communication with the Transport Office for scheduling workload
• Have a flexible and willing approach to undertake a range of tasks
• Perform MOT preparations and compliance checks
• Ensure all work complies with health and safety and DVSA regulations

Qualifications and experience:

• Valid UK driving licence; an HGV Class 1 or 2 licence is highly desirable
• Knowledge of DVSA inspection standards
• Fully qualified HGV Technician (City & Guilds / NVQ Level 3 or equivalent)

The above list of responsibilities is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope of the post, as well as other duties relevant to your experience.

Skills:

• Time management
• IT literacy – familiarity with diagnostic software and digital reporting tools
• Strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills
• Be able to work on your own initiative
• Must have good communication skills

What We Offer:

• Remuneration: We offer a competitive salary
• Development: We are committed to investing in our people, so we invest in you. Development is in your hands and we want to enable this so your progression at Bennie is only limited by what you want to achieve.
• Pets: Office based employees are invited to bring their well-behaved dogs in to the office.
• Finally, our long-standing family tradition, of giving staff a Christmas turkey.

Cranford Road, Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire NN15 5TB

Part of The Bennie Group, a family of great companies.