Spray Painter

Direct Line Group Careers; Stockton-on-Tees; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Paint Technician, where your expertise in vehicle painting will drive high-quality repairs. Enjoy a competitive salary with potential earnings of up to £75,000, alongside excellent benefits including a 9% pension contribution and flexible working options. Contribute to a collaborative team focused on delivering outstanding service in a rapidly evolving industry.

Benefits

9% employer-contributed pension

50% off home, motor, and pet insurance

Health and Dental insurance options

EV car scheme

Generous holidays

Employee discounts and cashback

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in painting small and large jobs on a variety of vehicles.
• Knowledge of preparing vehicles, including buffing and priming surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Prepare vehicles by buffing, polishing, and priming surfaces before spray painting.
• Work with a team of painters and panel beaters, reporting to workshop controller.

Skills

Experience in painting

Health and Safety compliance

Teamwork

Job description

Paint Technician - Full Time - Perm

Base salary up to £51,000 and On-Target Earnings of around £75,000 with uncapped earning potential.

In addition to the above, you will receive a 9% employer-contributed pension—regardless of whether you contribute into your pension or not! Other benefits associated with this role are outlined below.

DLG is evolving. Across every facet of our business, our teams are embracing new opportunities and putting customers at the heart of everything they do. By joining our Auto Services team, you’ll become part of a network of repair centres with one simple mission: to deliver high-quality repairs as quickly and efficiently as possible for our more than 100,000 customers. As we look to the future, you can look to yours too. From technical capability to customer relations, here you’ll find a place where you can really thrive. We’ve got this!

What you'll be doing

As a Paint Technician, we want you to bring your previous experience, skills, and knowledge to the team. You'll need to demonstrate your experience of painting small and large jobs on a wide variety of vehicles, and be confident in all aspects of preparing vehicles, including buffing, polishing, and priming surfaces before spray painting, as well as working to meet our customer's needs. If you love to stay busy, this role is really for you. You will work within a team of painters, panel beaters, and MET fitters reporting to your workshop controller.

What you'll need

The future is exciting now as the technologies used in Body Shops are evolving every day, helping us reshape the vehicle repair industry. That's why we're excited to grow our teams and are looking for people to join us. All roles are at the heart of our Auto Services business, and you'll need to be enthusiastic, upbeat, and committed to delivering the best repair service.

As you can imagine, Health and Safety and working to industry standards are important to us. We always ensure our teams and customers' safety at each stage of the repair process, in compliance with Health and Safety regulations, Audatex estimates, DLGAS ways of working, and BS10125 procedures.

This is a permanent onsite role.

40 or 45-hour a week contracts are available.

Benefits

We recognise we wouldn't be where we are today without our colleagues, which is why we offer excellent benefits designed to suit your lifestyle:

• 9% employer-contributed pension

• 50% off home, motor, and pet insurance, plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover

• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance

• EV car scheme allowing colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax-efficient way

• Generous holidays

• Buy as you earn share scheme

• Employee discounts and cashback

• Plus many more

We want everyone to get the most out of their time at DLG. That’s why we’ve looked beyond financial rewards and created an offer that considers your whole life—supporting you to work at your best, whatever that looks like, with real choice, flexibility, and a better work-life balance. Our benefits are about more than just money—they’re about recognizing who you are and the life you live.

Be yourself

Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we believe diversity of background and thinking is a big strength. We are proud to be one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and succeed. If you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

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