Night Shift Prepper / Polisher

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Job title: Prepper / Polisher

Department: Activate Accident Repair

Location: 1 Orpen Park Ash Ridge Rd Bradley Stoke Bristol BS32 4QD


Hours: 44 hours per week, Monday - Thursday 6pm - 6am

We're looking for a Prepper / Polisher to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

Prepping and polishing of Motor vehicles

Key responsibilities

  • Ensure customer satisfaction in the repair of motor vehicles of all types.
  • Carry out such work in a safe and economical manner.
  • Observe, recognise and report on vehicle structure and paintwork.
  • Interpret and implement technical instruction data.
  • Indent for replacement parts and record usage.
  • Accurately use paint mixing schemes and drying areas/equipment.
  • Ensure that vehicles comply with safety standards when returned to customers, or that faults have been reported and noted on job card.
  • Attain manufacturers' and/or estimated repair/paint times.
  • Report all faults, defects noticed whilst working on vehicles.
  • Take care of equipment, special tools and personal tools.
  • Accurately report all components, materials and consumables used.
  • Safeguard the customers' vehicle and contents whilst being repaired.
  • Ensure that all work carried out meets acceptable safety and quality standards.
  • Company repair/paint times to be achieved.
  • Hours, components, materials and consumables used recorded.
  • Wastage of materials not to exceed target set by Manager for period.
  • No customer vehicle or contents to be damaged/lost while vehicles under repair.
  • Assigned apprentice to have completed training schedule for day/week.
  • No customer vehicle or contents to be damaged/lost while vehicles under repair.

Skills and experience

  • ATA / NVQ level 3 Paint Technician.
  • Good Communication skills.
  • Good Decision Making/Problem solving skills.
  • Good H&S knowledge/awareness and compliance.
  • Time served repair technician.
  • Good time management skills
  • Relevant industry experience

Benefits


  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) (pro-rata)
  • Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
  • Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
  • Life assurance: three times basic salary
  • Free breakfasts and fruit
  • Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.


A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 900 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it's like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

  • Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
  • Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
  • Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.
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