Yardsman/Valet

ACTIVATE GROUP LIMITED; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in accident repair is seeking a Yardsman / Valet to ensure vehicle maintenance and site upkeep at their Mildenhall location. This role offers generous benefits, including health cash plans, and emphasizes teamwork and accountability, contributing to the company’s success story.

Benefits

33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

Personal health cash plan

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Life assurance: three times basic salary

Free breakfasts and fruit

Birthday surprise

Qualifications

• Full driving license with correct classification for duties.

Responsibilities

• Move vehicles around the site and maintain grounds.
• Clean vehicles for customer collection to ensure first class service.
• Maintain site by trimming hedges, grass cutting, and litter picking.

Skills

Logistics experience

Attention to detail

Right attitude

Job description

Job title: Yardsman / Valet

Department: Activate Accident Repair

Location: AAR Mildenhall, Plot 41, Hampstead Avenue, Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 7AS

Hours: 45hrs per week

We’re looking for a Yardman to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

Responsible for moving vehicles around site, including parking and moving them to the correct bays for work to be completed. The role is also responsible for general maintenance of the site grounds and buildings.

Key responsibilities

• Cleaning vehicles (courtesy cars) ready for customer collection to a standard that reinforces the customers feeling that they have received first class service.
• Responsible for car parks and positioning of vehicles on site, including moving vehicles into the workshop for technicians
• Moving vehicles for total losses to be collected or dropped off and ensuring they are positioned correctly and safely
• Grounds maintenance, including; hedge trimming, grass cutting, weeding, clearing snow/ice from pathways, aiding skip removal, litter picking and fence painting
• May need to carry out collection and delivery of customers vehicles when required

Skills and experience

• Full driving licence with the correct classification to carryout duties

• Logistics experience

• Attention to detail

• The right attitude to get the job done

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.