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About the Role
Reporting to the Service Manager, this role involves the day-to-day repair and maintenance of the fleet of buses, ensuring work is delegated and outputs are monitored to achieve reliable, safe, and high-quality results in line with targets and objectives.
Responsibilities
- Inspect, repair, and maintain buses.
- Check the quality of repairs.
- Investigate and diagnose mechanical and electronic faults.
- Record faults and repair work using a tablet.
- Make decisions regarding road calls.
- Liaise with iBus and the engineering team to minimize lost mileage.
- Delegate work to the team and monitor outputs.
- Follow safety instructions and report issues.
- Update the Service Manager on progress and assist with planning.
- Potentially assume Service Manager responsibilities during their absence.
Requirements
- Work 12-hour shifts with four days on and four days off.
- Possess current recognised qualifications in hybrid awareness and hybrid fault diagnostics.
- Provide evidence of IRTEC and SMT qualification from the awarding body.
- Pass the IRTEC Service Maintenance Technician exam during the six-month probation if NVQ is not held.
- Have a good standard of Maths and English.
- Be able to read and understand instructions and service manuals.
- Know how to use fleet management technical computer systems.
- Be a good team player.
- Be able to meet deadlines and work flexibly.
- Be willing to undertake any training requested by the service manager.
- Be able to work well using own initiative.
- Be safety conscious in all actions.
Skills
- NVQ level 2 qualification for maintenance and repair of public service vehicles or heavy goods vehicles (or equivalent international qualification)
- Hybrid awareness qualification
- Hybrid fault diagnostics qualification
- IRTEC qualification
- SMT qualification
- PCV licence (preferred but not essential)
- Maths
- English
- Reading and understanding instructions and service manuals
- Fleet management technical computer systems
- Teamwork
- Meeting deadlines
- Flexible working
- Initiative
- Safety consciousness
Location
- Southall Depot
Work Type
- Permanent
- 12hr shifts with four days on and four days off
Education Level
- NVQ level 2 qualification for maintenance and repair of public service vehicles or heavy goods vehicles (or equivalent international qualification)
- IRTEC
- SMT qualification
Salary/Compensations
- £24.26 / 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, 3% employer contribution)
- Death-in-service benefit included in pension scheme
- Life insurance (if signed up to pension scheme)
- Employee benefits from shops and retailers