Vehicle Mechanic

As a Vehicle Mechanic, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. With your skills and experience, you'll be undertaking the servicing, repair, maintenance and overhaul of Military vehicles and electrical equipment, including diagnostic and inspection duties. You'll also be carrying out equipment examination to meet production requirements.

Day to day, you'll be carrying out work to the required standard and specification as detailed in accordance with customer requirements, current regulations, local instructions, process plans and other technical publications. You'll also ensure stores and equipment issued to job are used for their correct purpose.

• Diagnose, inspect and assess vehicles and associated mechanical / electrical equipment in line skills & competency


• Ensure stores and equipment issued to job are used for their correct purpose and un-used or new faulty material is returned to the section / department Team Leader as soon as it is identified


• Creation of job cards and demanding material where the relevant ERP (SAP) training has been completed


• Completion of vehicle and equipment documentation and test certificates / reports to current standards


This position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.

This role is full time 37 hours per week Monday - Friday with flexible working hours and is based on site at MOD Leconfield.


• Previous experience within similar role is required


• Hydraulics experience


• Dealership / Local Garage experience


• A real team player with the ability to adapt and build rapport


Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic:

• NVQ Level Three Service and Repair


Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• Employee share scheme


• Employee shopping savings portal


• Payment of Professional Fees


• Reservists in the armed forces receive ten special paid leave


• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement


• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity


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