VEHICLE BODY BUILDER – DEVIZES

T H WHITE Group; Devizes; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Sociable hours

Overtime available

Perkbox discounts

Holiday allowance

Share plan

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Staff discounts

Job summary

Palfinger UK in Devizes is recruiting a Body Builder for our Production Workshop. You will build vehicle bodies from bare chassis, fit body kits, and fabricate components to customer specifications.

You will start with chassis and assemble steel, alloy, GRP or cage-style sections, adding safety rails, walkways and electrical systems to meet individual requirements. Previous body-building experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Prior experience within vehicle body building.
• Ability to read engineering drawings.
• Fabrication and welding experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Assemble and build vehicle bodies from bare chassis to customer specification.
• Fit body kits to a variety of commercial vehicles and crane fits.
• Fabricate components to attach to the bodywork and ensure correct integration with electrical systems.

Skills

Fabrication & welding

Mechanical fitting

Read engineering drawings

Vehicle body building

Job description

Do you have experience assembling or repairing body work on commercial vehicles, coaches, cars or similar?

Are you looking for something different? Would you be interested building our bespoke commercial crane bodies from the chassis upwards?

We are Palfinger UK. We’re the exclusive UK distributor for Palfinger Lorry Cranes and Epsilon Construction and Recycling Cranes. We’re also the UK’s largest national lorry crane provider that offers in-house assembly and bespoke body-building .

Our business is expanding and we’re looking to recruit a competent Body Builder for our Production Workshop based in Devizes.

Hours

39 hours per week

08:00-16:30 Mon – Thursday

08:00 – 15:30 Friday

Additional overtime available

Key Duties Will Include

As a business we operate state-of-the-art body building workshops where our skilled technicians build any kind of vehicle body (from the bare chassis up), to suit our customer specifications.

You’ll be fitting body kits to a wide variety of commercial vehicles, (flat beds, drop sides, tippers etc.) to complement our crane fits. This will include fabricating components to attach to the bodywork.

We start with the chassis and build the bodywork exactly to specification. We can incorporate steel, alloy, GRP or cage-style drop side sections, safety rails, walkways, central stairs, water tanks, storage compartments, electrical systems and a whole range of specialist designs to meet individual requirements.

The Ideal Applicant

• Prior experience within vehicle body building
• Fabrication & welding experience
• Knowledge of mechanical fitting practices
• Be able to read engineering drawings

Benefits

As a business we are committed to training, mentoring and developing our employees to enable them to achieve their maximum potential.

We offer a wide range of benefits that reward you now and as your career progresses, these include:

• A competitive salary, based on your capability & experience – benchmarked and reviewed annually so your pay remains competitive.
• Sociable hours
• The opportunity to work overtime, when available should you wish to increase your earnings.
• Perkbox high street retail discounts, wellbeing support and online GP access
• 23.5 days holiday plus bank holidays – rising to 26.5 days with service.
• Share Plan – providing our employees with a real stake in the business.
• Company pension scheme offering combined contributions of up to 12.5%.
• Life Assurance cover providing up to 5 times salary with service.
• Staff discounts on a huge variety of products at our group (T H White) store.

Palfinger UK are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are committed to building a diverse, positive and inclusive workplace.