Trainee Health and Safety Equipment Technician

Arco Ltd; Basildon; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Arco Ltd seeks a Trainee Health and Safety Equipment Technician to support a variety of safety equipment roles while delivering excellent customer service. This field-based position involves travel to client sites, achieving sales targets, and developing key relationships in the health and safety industry. Candidates must have a clean driving license and a commitment to continuous learning.

Benefits

32 days holiday (pro rata)

10% annual bonus

Pension and Life Assurance scheme

Learning Management System access

Community Volunteering days

High street retailer discounts

Employee Assistance Programme access

Qualifications

• Committed to continuous professional development; undertaking and maintaining the required qualifications.
• Face Fit Testing understanding is beneficial.
• Presentation skills are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Servicing existing customers with Compliance.
• Responsibility for achieving financial targets.
• Promoting profitable sales and generating new business.

Skills

Clean Driving Licence

Face to Face Customer Experience

Interest in Health and Safety

Eager to learn new skills

Basic IT skills

Job description

About The Role

Are you ready to dive into an exciting role, where you keep people safe and make a real impact? As a Trainee Health and Safety Equipment Technician at Arco Professional Safety Services you will embark on an exciting journey, understanding a wide variety of equipment, offering excellent customer support, supporting the coordination of our equipment hire. With our unique career opportunities with a wide range of services offered this is a unique opportunity to start an exciting career within the health and safety industry.

This is a field based role, with regular travel to customer sites and occasional overnight stays required.

Key responsibilities include:

• Servicing existing customers with Compliance
  
• Responsibility for achieving financial target within role/geographical area
  
• Promoting profitable sales with our core range of products, solutions and partnered services
  
• Generating new business with core range in product, solutions and partnered services
  
• Developing working relationships with vendors and third party suppliers
  
• Managing geographical area working alongside Office team and other Technicians
  
• Maximising all business opportunities
  
• Developing a clear understanding of group products and services.
• Undertaking a defined set of in-house / external qualifications (within a 12 –18-month period) to meet the needs of the role, ensuring your portfolio is up to date.

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

• A competitive starting salary plus up to 10% annual bonus
  
• 32 days holiday (pro rata) inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
  
• 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days (pro rata for part time) every year
  
• An excellent pension and Life Assurance scheme
  
• A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
  
• Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
  
• Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

About you
The ideal Trainee Health & Safety Equipment Technician will be/have:

• Clean Driving Licence
  
• Presentation experience
  
• Face to Face Customer Experience
  
• Interest in Health and Safety
  
• Understanding Face Fit Testing
  
• Eager to learn new skills
  
• Basic IT skills
  
• Committed to continuous professional development; undertaking and maintaining the required qualifications

About Us

With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge.

We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come.
Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.