Motor Vehicle Technician
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Job Title: Motor Vehicle Technician
Salary: £40,386 to £45,615 plus a Location allowance of £1,841 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000 . You will receive £40,386 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £45,615 will be via incremental progression.
Location: Belvedere
The vision of the Metropolitan Police Service is to make London safe for everyone. We are radically changing to deliver high-quality policing services in a more efficient and cost-effective way, in line with the Mayor of London’s Police and Crime Plan. Our operational policing fleet comprises of over 5000 vehicles, 1000 pedal cycles and 25 marine vessels. Vehicles are a workplace for our officers and staff, carrying sophisticated equipment for operational policing, or providing a safe environment for the transport of the public and prisoners. By their very nature, vehicles are often used in the most arduous and challenging conditions.
About Fleet Services
MO11 Fleet Services form part of the ‘Met Operations’ business group, providing pan-London support to support policing across the Capital. Fleet Services are responsible for all aspects of fleet lifecycle management to the Metropolitan Police Service, including vehicle maintenance. Fleet Services are also responsible for the service, maintenance and repair of police vehicles and vessels that are ‘retained’ by the Metropolitan Police Service; specifically, those assets where service, maintenance and repair activities are completed at our purpose-built workshops by our in-house team of dedicated technicians and support staff.
The main duties of this role
The role of Motor Vehicle Technician sits within our Retained Fleet Services function, operating out of flagship workshop facility in Belvedere. The role holder will play a key role in our team to ensure that vehicles serviced and maintained promptly and effectively and are ready for essential police operations. The role holder will:
- Maintain covert and specialist fleet within Fleet Services’ specialist workshop by providing efficient scheduled and unscheduled maintenance repairs on the vehicle fleet.
- Reduce vehicle maintenance costs and maximise fleet availability by ensuring repairs on the vehicle fleet are timely and necessary.
- Support the Technical Supervisors to maintain the delivery of an effective and efficient service.
- Accurately determine the serviceability of all vehicle components, mechanical, electrical and hydraulic; using industry recognised tools and equipment.
- Visually inspect and road test vehicles, interpreting feedback from the vehicle’s correct function.
- Diagnose electrical faults accurately, using high and low technology electrical test equipment to ensure they achieve or exceed vehicle manufacturers’ standards.
- Accurately record obtained measurements and data on completed work, compiling technical reports where necessary.
- Maintain high technology test equipment to configure / reconfigure the appropriate system correctly.
- Accurately follow the ‘end to end’ process for each manufacturer’s warranty process.
- Read, interpret and analyse wiring diagrams, making use of interactive guides available from various manufacturers’ diagnostic equipment and web-based mediums.
- Follow multiple manufacturers’ repair instructions, specific methods and techniques.
- Take responsibility for personal development and keep up to date with relevant standards and legislation.
- Continuously understand wider Met activity and decision making to assess potential impact on local delivery.
- Transfer knowledge and skills to apprentices / less technical staff.
We will provide the following additional specific training:
- Additional police specialist warning equipment and communication systems
- High technology surveillance equipment
- Specialist vehicle conversions
- Vehicle examination processes for maintenance and repair in line with police policy
In return, we can offer
You’ll also enjoy the kind of great benefits that you’d expect from one of London's largest employers. These include annual leave, civil service pension arrangements, interest free season ticket loans, membership of Met sports and social clubs, flexible working conditions and many more
- Latest equipment and tooling provided
- Free uniform and PPE
- 36 hours per week – Monday to Friday only with no rostered weekend working
- 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service
- Access to emergency service discount schemes
Additional Information
Successful candidates will be expected to remain in their initial role for 2 years before applying for any other internal roles
Roles Available: Multiple
Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:
https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 31st July 2024.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
Your profile
We are looking for an enthusiastic motor vehicle technician to join our workshop technical team. You will have demonstrable experience as a motor vehicle technician in the automotive industry, which may have been obtained through main dealer or independent networks. Our vehicles are unique – you will be servicing some of the most high profile vehicles used in policing across the country. They are used arduously, and are fitted with additional emergency warning and communications equipment, which you’ll be trained to repair too. You’ll work methodically according to our published SOPs, and will be a great team player who is able to perform well under pressure. We recognise that we are not a traditional ‘main dealer’ – we’re responsible for the maintenance of hundreds of varieties of vehicles and we know that it may take a short period of time for you to learn ‘the Met way’, however we’re willing to train and coach the right candidate, who will already have a passion for wanting to provide great service and bring significant experience in a similar automotive environment. We are working to provide an efficient service to Police Officers across London in order to ‘Keep the Met Moving’. We’re looking to find candidates who have:
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and engage with staff and officers at all levels.
- The confidence to work both as part of a team and independently
- A methodical and thorough approach.
- Effective decision making based on sound judgement.
- The ability to prioritise your workload according to conflicting demand.
Applicants should have:
- 4 years’ relevant experience (Essential)
- NVQ Level 3 in Light Vehicle Maintenance and Repair (or equivalent) (Essential)
- DVLA driving licence (Category B entitlement) (Essential)
- DVLA licence with C1 & D1 / C or C+E driving categories (Desirable)
- DVSA Nominated Tester (Desirable)
- HGV repair and maintenance experience (Desirable)
- Experience of working with a wide range of manufacturers (Desirable)
- ATA accredited to diagnostic technician level or equivalent (Desirable)
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
