Technician Supervisor - Glasgow East

Volvo; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading transportation company in Glasgow is looking for an experienced HGV Technician Supervisor to lead a team of technicians. This role involves overseeing workshop operations and ensuring quality and safety standards. The ideal candidate will have supervisory experience in HGV maintenance and strong communication skills. This position offers competitive salary and various employee benefits, including training opportunities and generous holidays.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Health cash plan

Excellent training opportunities

Bonus scheme up to 5%

Qualifications

• Prior experience as a Supervisor or Team Leader in HGV maintenance.
• Ability to manage and motivate a team effectively.
• Proficiency in communication at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of skilled technicians.
• Oversee daily workshop operations for performance and quality.
• Ensure health and safety standards are met.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical diagnostics

Communication skills

Workflow management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

HGV Technician Supervisor - Nights

Salary up to £41,000 p.a. + overtime!!

Signing bonus £1,000 payable after 6 months service

Working Monday to Thursday 2100hrs to 0700hrs

Are you an experienced HGV Technician ready to take the next step in your career? Volvo Truck & Bus is looking for a Technician Supervisor to join our Glasgow East team. This is an excellent opportunity to combine your technical expertise with leadership responsibilities in a world-class service environment.

As Technician Supervisor, you’ll play a key role in leading our team of HGV technicians, ensuring all work is carried out efficiently, safely, and to Volvo’s high standards. You’ll act as a hands-on leader, supporting technicians on the shop floor while coordinating workloads, maintaining quality control, and liaising with the Service Manager to meet operational targets

What you will do

Ready to take a step up in your role?

• Lead, motivate, and support a team of skilled technicians.
• Oversee day-to-day workshop operations, ensuring productivity, efficiency, and quality standards are consistently met.
• Carry out diagnostics, repairs, and maintenance on Volvo trucks and buses when required.
• Ensure health & safety and compliance standards are maintained across the workshop.
• Provide training, mentoring, and guidance to develop the team’s skills and performance.
• Working closely with and supervising a team of technicians in order to create high levels of morale and focus to ensure that work is completed in a timely manner and with excellence in quality.

• Ensuring that customer expectations are managed at all times by working with each stage of the Genuine Volvo Service process.
• Maximising the shifts performance through effective problem solving, coaching & development
• Effective communication with the Day Shift Supervisor, CSR’s and Parts department to ensure that technicians have valid job specifications and time budget prior to work commencing

Who are you?

• Do you have previous experience as aSupervisor or Team Leaderin HGV maintenance?
• Are you able to manage and motivate a team of technicians in their daily duties?
• Can you coach and provide support and guidance to your team of technicians.
• Are you able to effectively communicate at all levels both written and verbally
• You have the ability to prioritise tasks, manage workflow and meet deadlines in a busy workshop
• You have a basic knowledge of Microsoft and IT skills

What’s in it for you?

• Bonus scheme paid quarterly up to a maximum of 5% contributory
• 33 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, increasing with length of service
• Excellent Training and Development Opportunities
• Generous pension scheme
• health cash plan with access to dental insurance
• Discount on Renault cars & Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Maternity & Adoption Leave 6 months full pay moving to 6 months half pay | Paternity 2 weeks leave with further 3 weeks in first 3 years
• Discounts for yourself family and friends on many Hight St retailers, theme park days out, hotel/travel, gym memberships +++++++

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Who we are and what we believe in

We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.