Fleet Specialist (Driver/Mechanic)

Gi Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fleet management company is seeking a Fleet Specialist in Mitcham, London. The role involves maintaining and repairing vehicles, performing battery swaps, and ensuring compliance with local laws. Candidates must have a valid UK driving license and experience with digital work tools. This position offers a pay rate of £15.24 per hour and is based on a Monday to Friday schedule from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

Qualifications

• Previous work experience.
• Ability to work in shifts across daytime and evening.
• Must be over 21 with a minimum of 1-year driving experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and repair vehicles.
• Perform battery swapping tasks efficiently.
• Diagnose non-functioning vehicles and suggest repairs.
• Recycle and disassemble vehicles beyond repair.
• Adhere to Health & Safety procedures.

Skills

General digital work-tool knowledge

Ability to speak English fluently

Valid UK Driving License

Job description

Overview

As a Fleet Specialist you are part of a team that, dependent on local business needs, is responsible for maintaining, repairing, transporting and re-positioning vehicles as well as swapping batteries when they are depleted.

Location

Mitcham, London

Pay

£15.24 per hour

Hours

Monday to Friday - 8:30am to 4:30pm (with half an hour unpaid break)

Responsibilities

• Maintain and repair the fleet of vehicles, either at our warehouse locations or fixes out in the field.
• Ensure our fleet on the street is always available to users by performing battery swapping tasks in the field as efficiently as possible.
• Take care of the equipment provided to you to do your work and while following to local laws and regulations.
• Diagnose vehicles which are not functioning and suggest repair action to be taken.
• Clean dirty vehicles before deploying them onto the streets.
• Recycle and disassemble vehicles which are broken beyond repair.
• Assist in receiving, packing and deploying new vehicles and batteries arriving to the warehouse or vehicles / batteries needing to be sent to another location.
• Adhere to defined Health & Safety procedures set out by the client in all the tasks you perform as part of your work.
• Ensure a high quality standard for our vehicles in the field by identifying damaged vehicles, re-balancing wrongly parked vehicles, tidy parking spots and lift vehicles that have fallen over.
• Search, find and transport vehicles and batteries from our warehouses to the streets and vice versa in the most efficient and safe manner.
• Make sure that our vehicles are deployed in a safe and compliant way, while being easily accessible by our users and not posing a nuisance to the citizens of the city.
• Re-balancing vehicles, which means collecting vehicles from low-demand area to replace them in high-demand areas.
• Be friendly, helpful and respectful to any member of the public that approach you on the street while performing work and to your colleagues in the warehouse.

Requirements

• Previous work experience
• General digital work-tool knowledge (using apps, slack, gmail)
• You speak either the local language or English fluently
• Ability to work in shifts across daytime and evening
• A valid full UK Driving License is a prerequisite, with a maximum allowance of 6 points for minor offences and no major offences - MUST be over the age of 21 and held your licence for a minimum of 1 year

If you are interested in this role, please apply and someone from the local Gi Group office will contact you!

Should you require any support or assistance, please contact your local Gi Group office.