Mobile Technician

Paragon Bank; Borough of Spelthorne; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Bank seeks a Mobile Technician for Specialist Fleet Services in a home-based role. Candidates must have at least five years of technical experience with municipal vehicles and prior people management experience. The role involves maintenance, compliance inspections, and ensuring vehicle standards are upheld.

Benefits

Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days plus additional leave for birthday and festive days.

Share Save Scheme: Buy company shares at a discounted rate.

Profit Related Pay: Share in the annual profits.

Pension Plan: Contributions of up to 10% of the annual salary.

Family Friendly policies: Enhanced parental pay.

Employee Discounts: Exclusive discounts on travel, shopping, and more.

Volunteering Day: One day off for community service.

Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years' technical experience on municipal vehicles.
• Full clean HGV driving license category C required.
• Previous people management experience essential.

Responsibilities

• Carry out ministry inspections, LOLERs, and MOTs to comply with regulations.
• Provide cover for technicians in the workshop network and complete paperwork.
• Ensure all equipment is maintained correctly and report any failures.

Skills

Technical experience on vehicle electrical systems (12+24 volts)

Understanding of Health and Safety rules and regulations

Ability to work well on your own initiative

Knowledge of Fleetwave fleet management system

IT skills with knowledge of Microsoft office systems

Organisational skills with ability to multitask and prioritise

Education

Recognised time served on an apprenticeship scheme

VOSA vehicle inspection course

Municipal vehicle manufacturing training

Job description

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Mobile Technician looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

Brief description
We are looking for a technician to join Specialist Fleet Services (SFS) in this home-based role. If you’re located within the M25 corridor and have a minimum of five years’ technical experience on municipal vehicles and previous people management experience, then we’d like to hear from you

Purpose of the role
To ensure that all repairs, maintenance, and servicing of vehicles is completed to a high standard, and vehicle maintenance and compliance regulations are adhered to at all times. You will also assist with the pre-delivery inspections of new fleet vehicle and assets throughout the customer network.

Duties and responsibilities

• To carry out ministry inspections, LOLERs, MOTs, along with body inspections and services, to comply with customer O’ license and all legal requirements
• Full use of the fleet management system (Fleetwave) as required
• Provide cover for technicians and workshop controllers in the workshop network. This will include completing the workshop specific paperwork and procedures, ensuring parts are ordered, recharges are identified and warranty repairs resolved
• Carry out fleet inspections on the fleet which SFS does not maintain. Completing reports on fleet condition, ensuring the operator is adhering to their requirements and validating the quality of the external maintenance providers
• Ensure all equipment is maintained, used and stored correctly. You must report any failures in operation of the equipment to the workshop controller
• To ensure vehicles are safe before being returned to the customer
• Complete pre-delivery and specification approval inspections

About You

Skills

• Technical experience on vehicle electrical systems (12+24 volts), hydraulic and pneumatic
• Understanding of Health and Safety rules and regulations
• An ability to work well on your own initiative
• Knowledge of Fleetwave fleet management system
• IT skills with knowledge of Microsoft office systems
• Organisational skills with ability to multitask and prioritise to meet deadlines

Qualifications and experience
A minimum of five years' technical experience on municipal vehicles (eg refuse, sweepers, etc), preferably within a workshop environment. Evidence of qualifications and training such as recognised time served on an apprenticeship scheme, VOSA vehicle inspection course or municipal vehicle manufacturing training. A full clean HGV driving license category C is required as a minimum. Previous people management experience essential.

Working hours
45 hours per week, Monday to Friday (one hour for lunch). Working hours will vary as dependent on business requirements. Extensive travel and overnight stays may be required.

About Us

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria,we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s 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 Cover

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.