Engineer

ACTIVATE GROUP LIMITED; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading vehicle repair company in the UK is seeking an Engineer to join their team. The role focuses on engineering estimates for automotive incidents, ensuring costs are fair and reasonable, and liaising with repairers to authorize work. Ideal candidates will have an engineering background, experience with Audatex, and excellent communication skills. This position comes with competitive benefits, including 33 days holiday and a health cash plan, rooted in a culture that values support and growth.

Benefits

33 days holiday

Personal health cash plan

Enhanced family leave pay

Life assurance

Free breakfasts and fruit

Birthday surprise

Qualifications

• Must have an engineering background and body shop experience.
• Experience with Audatex and Case Management System is required.
• Strong attention to detail is essential.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for engineering estimates timely per client requirements.
• Check and confirm cost authorizations are fair and reasonable.
• Negotiate inflated costs down with non-network repairers.

Skills

Engineering background

Body shop experience

Experience with Audatex

Excellent attention to detail

Excellent verbal communication

Excellent written communication

Job description

Job title: Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: National

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Competitive

We’re looking for an Engineer to be part of our success story.

Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

You will be responsible for engineering estimates in a timely manner specific to the requirements of the client, to check and confirm the cost we are authorising is fair, reasonable and related to the incident in question.

Key responsibilities

• Check incident circumstances against work estimated for to see if the damage could be related to the incident.
• Check estimated costs are fair and reasonable.
• Check estimates are within customer specific rates if a network repairer has been allocated.
• Amend estimates to correct customer specific rates if a network repairer has been allocated.
• Negotiate with non-network repairers in order to bring inflated costs down.
• Authorise incident related work to repairers.
• Correctly value vehicles for total losses.

Skills and experience

• Engineering background and body shop experience
• Experience of using Audatex and the Case Management System
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent verbal / written communication

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.