Workshop Chargehand - Full Time - Wellingborough

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