Trainee Service Technician

Guided by our core values of Respect, Teamwork, Excellence, Commitment, Integrity and Trust, we believe that our people are what makes us great, which is why we offer a high level of support to ensure that employees are able to succeed. Our teams work closely together to support each other internally as well as providing a trusted service and partnership to our customers. We are looking for a Trainee Service Technician for the Blackpool team to help provide Medstrom products to our customers across Blackpool and Lancashire.

Your Role: As a Trainee Service Technician, you’ll be required to deliver an effective and timely maintenance service to customers. After training, this will include the delivery and installation of products within agreed delivery times, repair and proactive maintenance of products and support at delivery stage to customers in various environments.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Deliver clean, ready-to-use products to and around customer sites.
• Collect products after use and return to the service location for decontamination.
• Disinfect, function check, repair and electrical safety test products.
• Complete records of testing, delivery and collection.
• Maintain available product stock and spare parts inventory.
• Complete product modifications when required.
• Provide product demonstrations and basic training to staff.
• Maintain a clean and tidy work environment.

Hours of work: 37.5 per week, working Monday to Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm. Once trained, you will work 1 in 4 weekends, with two days off the following week. You will also be required to participate in an out of hours on-call rota (once trained) to support the team and the customer. This is subject to an on-call payment and additional payment for hours worked.

Experience Required: To join us as a Trainee Service Technician, ideally, you will need to have or be willing to develop the following:

Qualifications and experience requirements:

• Mechanical or electrical background desirable but not essential as full training will be provided.
• Full UK driving licence required (we use long wheelbase vans, but training and support to build confidence in manoeuvring these vehicles will be provided).
• Knowledge of Medstrom products would be desirable, but not essential.

Personal Requirements:

• A proactive, ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Able to communicate effectively.
• Ability to work under own initiative, and follow procedures laid out by the business to achieve deadlines.
• Basic knowledge of hygiene and safety rules.
• Basic PC skills to include email and MS Office.
• The willingness to be DBS checked.

In addition to the salary and related benefits, you will join a company that has grown extensively within the last 5 years and through our unique ownership model is continuing to grow, whilst offering great career opportunities for those that are keen to progress. Medstrom are an equal opportunities employer, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be. Medstrom operates a zero-tolerance policy to any harassment, of any kind, towards our colleagues.

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