Motorcycle Technician – Fleet Services

Metropolitan Police; Rainham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Metropolitan Police in Rainham, England, seeks a Motorcycle Technician – Level 4 for Fleet Services. You will maintain and repair the motorcycle fleet, carrying out scheduled and unscheduled work to keep assets available and compliant with manufacturer standards.

You will diagnose faults with specialist tools, record measurements, and contribute to training apprentices. The role requires careful workmanship, teamwork with supervisors, and strict safety adherence.

Qualifications

• Maintenance and repair of motorcycles in Fleet Services workshop.
• Diagnose faults using diagnostic equipment and wiring diagrams.
• Record measurements and data; interpret technical information.

Responsibilities

• Motorcycle maintenance and repair - Maintain fleet within Fleet Services’ workshop by providing efficient scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and repairs on the motorcycle fleet.
• Warranty jobs - Accurately follow the end-to-end process for each manufacturer’s warranty process.
• Inspection and diagnosis - Visually inspect and road test motorcycles; diagnose electrical faults using diagnostic equipment.
• Data / Information - Record measurements and data; read wiring diagrams and analyze technical information.
• Development / training - Keep up to date with relevant standards and legislation.
• Support colleagues – Assist Technical Supervisors to deliver effective service and mentor apprentices.

Skills

Motorcycle maintenance

Diagnostics

Electrical systems

Repair skills

Data recording

Tools

Diagnostic equipment

Job description

Job Title: Motorcycle Technician – Level 4, Fleet Services

Salary: The starting salary is £46,985, which includes allowances totalling £3,009.

The salary is broken down as £43,976 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £49,670. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

About Fleet Services

The police vehicle fleet is an important physical asset. It enables officers and staff to do their job, carries key equipment required, and provides safe transportation for the public / prisoners.

The role of Fleet Services is to keep the Met mobile, ensuring we can detect, respond to, and prevent crime whilst building public trust and confidence. Fleet Services are committed to leading with innovation, responsibility and environmental consciousness, striving for a fleet that is safer, smarter and cleaner, with a focused approach as follows:

• We will manage responsibly to deliver an excellent service and achieve value for money
• We will deliver strategies to manage the fleet efficiently and effectively
• We will deliver a fit-for-purpose, flexible and available fleet

The complex needs of modern policing requires a wide range of vehicle types. We operate a fleet of over 5,200 assets on the road and river, as well as over 1,000 pedal cycles. London is the most complex and diverse city in the UK, and our fleet is reflective of that. We currently have over 220 different types of vehicles supporting all operational commands including armed response vehicles, HGVs, patrol cars, motorbikes and pedal cycles.

Customers can be broadly grouped into three strategic pillars – Frontline Policing, Met Ops & Performance, and Counter Terrorism / Specialist Operations. Collectively this covers pan London requirements as well as national CT responsibilities.

The overall fleet requirements and volumes are owned and governed by operational leaders at the Strategic Fleet Board. Operational teams are accountable for the volume of fleet required to undertake their roles, and Fleet Services support and enable effective decision making through provision of information and technical / industry knowledge.

Key responsibilities

• Motorcycle maintenance and repair - Maintain fleet within Fleet Services’ workshop by providing efficient scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and repairs on the motorcycle fleet. Reduce motorcycle maintenance costs and maximise fleet availability by ensuring repairs on the motorcycle fleet are timely and necessary. Follow multiple manufacturers’ repair instructions, specific methods and techniques. Accurately determine the serviceability of all motorcycle components, mechanical, electrical and hydraulic; using industry recognised tools and equipment.
• Warranty jobs - Accurately follow the ‘end to end’ process for each manufacturer’s warranty process. Follow multiple manufacturers’ repair instructions, specific methods and techniques.
• Inspection and diagnosis - Visually inspect and road test motorcycles, interpreting feedback from the motorcycles correct function. Diagnose electrical faults accurately, using high and low technology electrical test equipment to ensure they achieve minimum (or exceed) motorcycles manufacturers’ standards. Maintain high technology diagnostic test equipment to configure / reconfigure the appropriate system correctly in line with the manufacturers system updates and device firmware configurations.
• Data / Information - Accurately record obtained measurements and data on completed work, compiling technical reports where necessary. Read, interpret and analyse wiring diagrams, making use of interactive guides available from various manufacturers’ diagnostic equipment and web-based mediums.
• Development / training - Take responsibility for personal development and keep up to date with relevant standards and legislation.
• Support colleagues – Continuously understand wider Met activity and decision making to assess potential impact on local delivery. Support the Technical Supervisors to maintain the delivery of an effective and efficient service. Demonstrate the skills and ability to effectively communicate with internal staff (at all levels), customers and industry organisations to transfer both technical and non-technical information. Provide training and mentor others (apprentices / technicians) in the workplace to support personal development and raise overall standards and efficiency.

This role does not attract Shift Disturbance Allowance. If you are currently in a shift-working role, SDA should cease upon appointment to this job.

Disability Confident Statement

The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

The Met is committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.

Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job-related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. Find out more about police fitness standards .

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