Motor Engineer

ACTIVATE GROUP LIMITED; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading repair services company is seeking a Motor Engineer to join their remote team. This role involves providing engineering estimates for repairs, ensuring cost fairness, and negotiating with repairers. Candidates should have an engineering background, body shop experience, and proficiency in Audatex. A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, including generous holiday and health support, are offered.

Benefits

33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

Personal health cash plan

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay

Life assurance: three times basic salary

Free breakfasts and fruit

Birthday surprise for everybody!

Qualifications

• Must have an engineering background and body shop experience.
• Familiar with using Audatex and Case Management System.
• Attention to detail and strong communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Check incident circumstances against work estimates.
• Ensure estimated costs are fair and reasonable.
• Negotiate costs with non-network repairers.
• Authorise incident-related work to repairers.
• Correctly value vehicles for total losses.

Skills

Engineering background

Body shop experience

Experience of using Audatex

Excellent attention to detail

Excellent verbal/written communication

Tools

Case Management System

Job description

Overview

Job title: Motor Engineer

Department: Activate Group

Location: Remote / Home Based

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Competitive

We’re looking for a Motor 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 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\u2019s 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.

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.