Job Role: Workshop Chargehand
Schedule: Monday to Friday, Day Shifts
Salary: £48,250 Basic
Location: Wellingborough
What my client can offer you?
- Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Years Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a weeks leave
- Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
- Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
- Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
- Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
- Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
- Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
- Life Assurance and Personal Accident CoverMain purpose of job as Workshop Chargehand:
This role is responsible for maintaining and repairing the vehicles operated by our local authority client from their Wellingborough depot. This includes carrying out all work to a high standard within this workshop facility, ensuring adherence to vehicle maintenance and compliance regulations, and that all paperwork is completed timely, accurately and to a high standard. The workshop chargehand will also be responsible for liaising with the onsite customers to ensure vehicles are maintained, and defects repaired efficiently.
Key responsibilities of the Workshop Chargehand:
- Carry out vehicle inspection examinations in line with VOSA procedure and Company policy.
- Diagnose faults by isolating systems or components that may have caused or potentially cause a problem.
- Repair or replace worn parts ahead of the vehicles breakdown or damage.
- Gain authorisation to repair or fit parts as required by Company Procedure.
- Test drive vehicles where permitted and correct driving license is held.
- Complete daily handover to the workshop controller on fleet status/repair progress
- Manage workload to ensure smooth running of workshop.
- Ensure the safety of all personnel and security of premises under your control.
- Obtain accurate costings from suppliers and set to estimate for fleet desk approval when required.
- Monitor consumable stock onsite i.e. oils and other fluids and order replenishments when required.
- Ensure warranty parts returned and relevant paperwork completed
- Cover out of hours breakdown standby on a rota basis if required.
- When workload permits assist other local workshops.
- High level of Health and Safety awareness
To be successful in this role, you should have:
- HGV Apprentice Served Qualification
- Municipal vehicle maintenance experience
- Driving licence HGV Class 2 (minimum)
- Good communicator and listener
- Ability to multi-task in a busy environment
- Diagnostic and problem-solving skills
- Good reading and computer literacy
- High level of Health and Safety awareness
Salary: £48250/annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Wellingborough
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Workshop Chargehand – Full Time – Wellingborough employer: Catering
Join a thriving manufacturing team in Ossett, where your skills as an Assembly Operative will be valued and rewarded. With a competitive salary of £13.00 per hour and opportunities for overtime, you will benefit from a supportive work culture that prioritises employee growth and development. This role not only offers job security with a permanent position after three months but also the chance to work with a variety of tools in a dynamic environment, making it an excellent choice for those seeking meaningful employment.
