About the Role
This role involves the day-to-day responsibilities for repairing and maintaining the fleet of buses in accordance with company policies and standards. The goal is to ensure a consistently reliable, safe, and high-quality work output, meeting specified targets, contractual obligations, and commercial objectives.
Responsibilities
- Inspecting, repairing, and maintaining buses.
- Checking the quality of repairs.
- Investigating and diagnosing mechanical and electronic faults.
- Recording faults and repair work using a tablet.
- Making decisions about road calls.
- Liaising with iBus and the engineering team to avoid lost mileage.
- Delegating work to the team and monitoring outputs.
- Following safety instructions and reporting issues.
- Updating the Service Manager on progress and assisting with planning.
- Potentially taking on Service Manager responsibilities during their absence.
Requirements
- Must have current recognised qualifications in hybrid awareness and hybrid fault diagnostics.
- Must provide evidence of IRTEC and SMT qualification from the awarding body.
- Must pass the IRTEC Service Maintenance Technician exam during the six-month probation if NVQ is not held.
- Must have a good standard of Maths and English.
- Must be able to read and understand instructions and service manuals.
- Must know how to use fleet management technical computer systems.
- Must be good in a team.
- Must be able to meet deadlines and work flexibly.
- Must be happy to take any training requested by the service manager.
- Must be able to work well using their own initiative.
- Must be safety conscious in all actions.
Skills
- Work 12hr shifts with four days on and four days off.
- NVQ level 2 qualification for maintenance and repair of public service vehicles or heavy goods vehicles (or equivalent international qualification).
- PCV licence (preferred but not essential).
- Ability to work flexibly, potentially from different depots or on different shifts.
- Ability to work well using own initiative.
- Safety consciousness.
Location
- Hayes Depot
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Rate dependant on qualification level.
Education Level
- NVQ level 2 qualification for maintenance and repair of public service vehicles or heavy goods vehicles (or equivalent international qualification).
- Current recognised qualifications in hybrid awareness and hybrid fault diagnostics.
- IRTEC and SMT qualification.
Salary/Compensations
- £24.90 / hour
Benefits
- Free travel on all TfL routes for you and a friend or family member (after three months).
- Free online and face-to-face counselling, legal advice, and more through employee assistance programme.
- Contributory pension scheme (5% employee contribution, 3% employer contribution) with death-in-service benefit.
- Life insurance (if signed up to the pension scheme).
- Employee benefits from shops and retailers (e.g., Apple, Adidas, Nike, Vue, Odeon, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons).
About the Company
- The company operates a fleet of buses and is committed to maintaining them to high standards of reliability, safety, and quality.
