Polish Technician

Motability Operations Limited; Markfield; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 15%

15% pension contribution

28 days annual leave (buy/sell days)

Job summary

Motability Operations Limited in Coalville is seeking an experienced Vehicle Polisher to join our refurbishment centre on a permanent basis. You will work on a high-volume site with modern polishing equipment, ensuring top-quality finishes on our vehicle fleet.

Key duties include machine polishing, panel blocking, defect removal and final-stage polishing for handover, delivering right-first-time results. The role requires polishing and paint rectification experience and a valid UK manual driving

Qualifications

• Panel block and polishing experience
• Paint rectification experience
• SMART repair knowledge beneficial
• Full UK driving licence (manual)

Responsibilities

• Machine polishing and finishing vehicle paintwork
• Blocking and polishing panels to a high standard
• Removing defects (de-nibbing) and carrying out paint rectification
• Completing final-stage polish to prepare vehicles for handover
• Delivering right-first-time results to reconditioning standards

Skills

Polishing

Panel blocking

Paint rectification

SMART repair knowledge

Job description

Motability Operations are currently recruiting an experienced Vehicle Polisher to join our busy, state-of-the-art refurbishment centre in Coalville on a permanent basis.

This is a high-volume site with consistent work (no downtime or waiting for jobs), working on a modern vehicle fleet using the latest polishing and paint correction equipment.

What you'll be doing

• Machine polishing and finishing vehicle paintwork
• Blocking and polishing panels to a high standard
• Removing defects (de-nibbing) and carrying out paint rectification
• Completing final-stage polish to prepare vehicles for handover
• Delivering right-first-time results to reconditioning standards

We are a diverse business looking for a Polish Technician, with a passion for the automotive industry that puts quality at the beginning of every process. Your keen eye and technical knowledge will ensure that vehicles within the cosmetic teams are accurately repaired to Motability standards. Proficient in using the latest methods, we are looking for someone who enjoys working in a dynamic environment, collaborating with your team to achieve goals.

Minimum criteria

• Panel block and polishing experience
• Paint rectification experience
• SMART repair knowledge beneficial
• Full UK driving licence (manual)

Due to the nature of this role we will require you on-site in Coalville 5-days per week.

Package

• Up to £35,700 basic salary
• Bonus up to 15%
• 15% pension contribution

Hours

• 45 hours per week
• 9-hour shifts between 06:30 - 18:00

Shift patterns discussed at interview, Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 700,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

Our values

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

Benefits

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
• 1 day for volunteering
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
• Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

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