Heavy Vehicle Mechanic

Technicians Required  – Permanent - 37 hours per week

An opportunity to shine in a demanding engineering environment working on the planned and reactive maintenance on a fleet of buses. 

The Situation
As a Heavy Vehicle Mechanic, you will play a crucial role in maintaining the reliability, safety, and performance of bus fleets. You will be responsible for diagnosing, repairing, and servicing buses to ensure they meet the high standards for operational efficiency and passenger safety. This position offers an exciting opportunity for individuals with a passion for automotive technology and a commitment to delivering an exceptional service.

You will provide various maintenance and refurbishment tasks on both new and legacy fleets of buses, ensuring they are safe to go out into service, and ultimately helping to ensure buses are running and providing a 1st class service for passengers with minimal disruptions to timetables.

Location:
Nottingham

Shifts:
This role will be working a mixture of earlies and lates, Sunday - Saturday (05:30 - 13:00 & 13:00 - 21:00)
Role and Responsibilities

• Servicing, maintenance, repairs, and overhaul on PSVs.
• Continuous improvement of vehicle reliability procedures and operations.
• Both preventative and reactive maintenance.
• In-depth fault diagnosis.
• Ensuring maintenance is kept to the highest standard.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate for this role will be a dual-skilled technician with a proven track record of  maintenance activities within the Bus, HGV or PSV industry.

Essential

• Carried out maintenance on Bus / PSV / HGV / Other heavy machinery
• Able to interpret electrical and mechanical diagrams
• Use of diagnostic software
• Use of test and measuring equipment

Likely Job Titles: 
Bus Technician, Bus Mechanic, Bus Fitter, Maintenance Technician, Coachbuilder, Vehicle Builder, Bus Electrician, PSV Mechanic, PSV Electrician, Technician, Maintenance Fitter, Mechanic

About ford & Stanley group

Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group are in the business of people and performance. Our mission is to create one million better workdays through facilitating great recruitment, leadership and occupational mental fitness. We support our clients in their most challenging business areas - recruiting, developing and retaining the best talent from shop floor to boardroom.

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Ford & Stanley Talent Services Group Ltd is a Disability Confident employer that is committed to a policy of equal opportunities for all opportunity seekers. We shall adhere to such a policy at all times and will review on an on-going basis all aspects of recruitment to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination. We will treat everyone equally irrespective sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, age, disability, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief or political beliefs and we place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with the policy.

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