Senior Skilled Vehicle Technician needed in Stoke on Trent Paying £2 per hr 5257200

Full time hours on a temporary basis

Key Responsibilities:

• Join the team to ensure the reliability and safety of our fleet.

  Key responsibilities include:

  • Performing repairs and preventative maintenance on various vehicles, plant, and machinery

  • Fault finding and diagnostic testing on electrics, hydraulics, and pneumatics

  • Bodywork repairs, welding, brazing, and soldering

  • Conducting vehicle safety inspections and preparing for Vehicle Inspectorate tests

  • Responding to breakdowns, performing roadside repairs, and vehicle recoveries

  • Supervising and mentoring apprentices and technicians

  • Handling administrative tasks related to vehicle maintenance and compliance

If you are interested in the role, please email your CV to verity@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please be prepared

About the role

The incumbent will be part of a larger team within the Logistics department in providing seamless and customer-focused

solutions to support the achievement of business objectives.

What you will be doing

• Communicate with customer, warehouse and forwarder in day to day operations

• Validating shipping documents from vendors, ensuring document completeness and accuracy adhering to SOP

• Advise vendor the mode of transports based on guidelines.

• Liaising with vendors / forwarders on shipment arrangements

• Monitoring of shipment status and to address custom clearance issues promptly.

• Reporting tasks (Extracting of reports from portal)

• Other ad hoc - Further duties to be identified in due course.

The successful candidate

• Preferably Diploma / Degree in Logistics / Supply chain

• Candidate with minimum 2-3 years’ experience

• He/She must equip with effective communication and collaboration skills to work with vendor, supply chain

team, marketing team and freight forwarders.

• Candidates to equip with basic MS Office skills

Connect Driver Solutions is a leading recruitment agency dedicated to delivering innovative staffing solutions and exceptional service to a range of clients across the country. With a strong commitment to excellence, we're expanding our team and seeking a talented and experienced Senior Recruitment Consultant to join our dynamic team in Hamilton.

As a Senior Recruitment Consultant, you will play a key role in managing and nurturing client relationships. Working within our driving and transport division, you will be responsible for understanding our clients' needs, strategising solutions, and ensuring the successful delivery of our recruitment services. If you're a proactive, results-driven professional with a passion for client success, we invite you to apply today!

Other responsibilities you can expect as a Senior Recruitment Consultant include:

• Building and maintaining strong, long-lasting relationships with clients
• Serving as a point of contact for client requirements, concerns, and escalations
• Understanding client objectives, working with internal teams to ensure client satisfaction
• Identifying opportunities for account expansion and the up-selling of additional services
• Developing account plans, outlining strategic goals and objectives
• Making calls to connect with contacts and generate new business leads
• Interviewing jobseekers to continuously enhance our database of candidates
• Identifying matches between jobs and potential candidates
• Screening and shortlisting candidates for their recruiting clients or their own organisation
• Operating our bespoke recruitment software
• Managing job applications as well as job boards and adverts on local and national websites to generate applicant attraction

To be successful within this recruitment role, you will have proven previous experience with a recruitment profession - preferably with a background in driving/logistics. Combined with the following skills, traits, and experience:

• Experience in both temporary and permanent placements
• A strong understanding of recruitment and client needs
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• A demonstrated ability to drive results and exceed targets
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage your own work load

Please Note - Candidates must be flexible to work variable hours due to key client requirements, including early morning starts, and evening client emergency cover when required. Therefore, you must have a full UK driving license.

Working with Connect provides you with a range of benefits, including:

• Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00
• A competitive salary of £30,000 per annum
• Performance-related bonuses
• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement
• High street discounts, and more

Join our team and become part of our success story!

CAHEAD

Our client a logistic company in the West area is looking for operation executive for their warehousing operation\

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $2,800.00 - $3,100.00 per month

Transport provided Jurong East MRT to office

Work Location: Clementi / Jurong East

Free parking

Schedule: Monday to Friday 3rd party logistics:

• Coordinate and oversee logistics and shipping operations
• Collaborate with suppliers, vendors, and customers to ensure smooth operations
• Track and monitor shipments to ensure timely delivery
• Prepare and analyze logistics reports to identify areas for improvement
• Implement new strategies and procedures to enhance efficiency and productivity
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements and standards
• Manage and maintain accurate records and documentation
• monitoring vessel movement with agent and via Portnet system
• Prepare and check all shipping documents processing via Portnet & Jurong Port online to ensure that they are complete and comply with customers requirement to ensure deliveries are fulfilled
• Check and verify driver’s and supply team trips form with deployment after job completion
• Attend to customer’s enquires relating to documents, e.g., delivery receipts / proof of delivery within lead time given
• Ensure all drivers are aware of specific customer requirements and monitor GPS tracking system to keep track of the progress that drivers make along the assigned routes
• Handles customer feedbacks, other administrative issues and perform any other duties as required by Transportation Manager
• Incident / investigation report submission when there is a requirement
• Handles customer feedbacks, other administrative issues and perform any other duties as required by Transportation Manager
• Able to handle fleet of Prime Movers and drivers
• To standby / handle 24/7 duty phone (rotation) during operations

Only open for Singaporean or local residents

• Minimum 1 years of experience in logistics and operations
• Strong understanding of supply chain management principles
• Proficient in using logistics software and tools
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor's degree in logistics, supply chain management, or a related field

Chan Chee Meng

EA 07C3069

R1110620

The Distribution Network and Customer team is responsible for shaping and building our future distribution network, ensuring we have the capacity and facilities to offer unbeatable service to our customers.

The wider team includes the Customer Service Team –the single point of contact for all customer email and phone enquiries and the Facilities Team – responsible for cost-effective delivery of capital projects and day to day maintenance across Distribution.

Together these teams support the wider Distribution teams, operating from 9 Distribution Centres and serving over 200 Booker Cash and Carry branches and 5000 independent retail customers. We make over 10,000 deliveries per week.

As an Analyst in the team there are lots of interesting problems to solve. You could be analysing which retail customer would be most efficiently served by which DC, or whether we have enough capacity to delivery everything we expect our customers to order this Summer. You could helping our customer services team to analyse customer feedback or helping to review the success of a recent facilities project.

The nature of this role means that it is suitable to be filled by either an Analyst or a Senior Analyst. For consideration as a Senior Analyst you must have a minimum of two years’ experience in an Analytical role and meet the requirements outlined below.

• Developing a deep understanding of how the wholesale industry and our end to end distribution operations work and why.
• Using a combination of data and business understanding to turn data into insight, root causing issues, defining problems, designing creative solutions and implementing them in the business.
• Reporting data accurately and turning it into useful information which has context and supporting narrative.
• Supporting applications which simplify business processes for Customer Services, Facilities and the wider supply chain team.
• Supporting the day to day operation of the Customer Services, Facilities and the wider supply chain team. Creating tools which simplify their processes.
• Measuring the costs & benefits associated with your work.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

This role will have exposure to teams across the Booker business as well as interaction with the whole distribution network. This is an excellent opportunity to develop cross-functional working and problem solving skills.

To be a keen problem-solver who can demonstrate:

• Strong business acumen and the drive to make changes to the way the company operates
• Strong analytical and numerical skills with exceptional attention to detail
• The ability to simplify complex issues and implement practical solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to engage and collaborate with other teams to deliver to objectives
• The ability to innovate new and pragmatic solutions using your own ideas
• Experience of spreadsheet tools and data visualisation software (Tableau or Microsoft Power BI). An understanding of VBA is desirable but not essential.
• Distribution experience is desirable but not essential
• The aptitude to learn new technical skills quickly

As a Senior Analyst you will also need to demonstrate the ability to:

• Line manage another analyst
• Own a project, identifying the right tasks and working with others to tackle them
• Proactively communicate progress and concerns to ensure the delivery of the project to the agreed timelines
• Be a role model of what a great analyst looks like, supporting your peers in their development

Company Overview

Bridgestone Retail Operations (BSRO) is part of Bridgestone Americas and employs over 22,000 teammates in North America. BSRO operates more than 2,200 company-owned stores, including Firestone Complete Auto Care, Tires Plus and Wheel Works locations. With locations across North America and more than $3 billion in tire and auto service sales, Bridgestone Retail Operations is the right place to build a career.

 

Whatever role you fill, when you represent the Bridgestone name, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality.” We start by offering each teammate more than just competitive pay. We provide formal training, performance incentives, paid vacation and holidays, competitive healthcare packages for full-time and part-time employees, and a 401k plan to help build towards your future.
 

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they are allowed to bring their whole self to work and know they are supported. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. We are building a team as diverse as the world we serve. So, show us what you’re made of. Show us the smart stuff, the tough stuff, the bold, beautiful and brave stuff. Because who you are is what we need. 

Retail

The Senior Technician position requires your talent and technical expertise to diagnose drivability and electrical systems, while using your leadership and mentoring skills in driving a team toward increased customer care and satisfaction.

• Diagnose and repair to specifications.
• Brake and hydraulic, exhaust, primary and/or advanced fuel ignition and electrical, suspension and alignment, air conditioning and computer systems.
• Adequately explain technical diagnoses and needed repairs to non-mechanical individuals. • Stay current with rapidly changing automotive technology through continuous paid formal training.
• Assist fellow technicians/mechanics in performing technical activities.

• Must have a valid automobile driver's license at all times and be able to drive customer and company vehicles.
• Must have a minimum 3 years of automotive repair experience, completion of Vocational-Technical School program in a related field or demonstrated skills via third party certificates/assessment.
• A.S.E. certification in at least 3 (three) of A1-A8 is required. (New hires with external similar qualifications/certifications will have up to 2 years of employment to comply).
• Maintains Federal, State and Local certification/license where applicable.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical people.
• Reading, writing, and math skills.

Our Crew Knows Benefits

Health benefits that start on day one of employment, for all of our full-time teammates:

• Paid vacation and holidays
• On-the-job training and company-funded ASE certifications
• Tuition reimbursement program
• 401(k) match
• Vision and Dental Coverage
• On demand pay (daily pay) program available

Our Values Give Back To You

• Professional Development: No matter where you’re at in your career, we’ve got the resources to help you level up.
• Community & Involvement: We pride ourselves on working with our local communities and giving back where we can.
• Integrity & Teamwork: Part of what makes our teams different is our family-like mentality and drive to do things right, always.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.  It is our policy to consider for employment all individuals regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.

To welcome you to the TrustFord family successful candidates will receive a joining bonus of £2,000*

For a Technician career that’s future proof DriveForwards

A lot’s changing for automobile technicians right now. At TrustFord, we’ve got the training to keep you up to date on everything from electric vehicles to state-of-the-art features like voice-recognition controlled playlists. As the largest Ford dealership in Europe, we’ll take good care of you, too. With benefits from 33 days’ holiday to heavily discounted cars, you can Drive Forwards in style as a Technician here.

About You:

To deliver high standards of technical advice, service and maintenance to all our TrustFord customers.
Own a full valid driving license, an NVQ 3, City & Guilds or equivalent.
Have previous Automotive Senior Technician experience. Ideally some main dealership experience.

During your first 12 months of Employment, you will be trained to IMI Level 3 in Electric Vehicle Maintenance and repair to ensure your skills remain relevant throughout your career with us.

A Day in the Life of a Technician

In addition to receiving a competitive salary, for the right candidate this position will offer:

Performance Related Bonus
33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) in addition to an annual leave purchase & sale scheme
Industry leading package
Pension Scheme & Life Assurance
Ford Privilege vehicle purchase scheme
Discount on Service, Bodyshop and Parts
1 day each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice
Cycle to work purchase scheme
Access to Perks at Work discount website

Happy to Discuss options of FLEXIBLE WORKING.

Requirements:

Please give specific detail of your experience, skills and previous responsibilities that you believe would be relevant to the role you are applying for.
We encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want all our colleagues to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

For your first 2 days in the business, you’ll be attending our fantastic residential induction academy. This is at a lovely hotel in the heart of the Northampton countryside, where you’ll learn all about our business before you start your new role.

TrustFord is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on any grounds other than ability to carry out the job role.

All offers of employment are subject to a background check.

We advertise our vacancies to attract candidates and not agency suppliers. If we need agency assistance then we will contact agencies from our Preferred Supplier List. Any speculative CVs we receive will not be accepted as an introduction.

*Colleagues previously employed within the last 6 months are not eligible. £1,000 paid in second month and £1,000 after 6 months continuous employment

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