Job title: Senior Motor Engineer
Department: Engineering
Location: Home based
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: Competetive
We’re looking for a Senior Motor Engineer 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
Act as a technical expert for the engineering team, providing leadership and direction. Consistently promote high standards through personal example and roll-out a one way once approach through the team ensuring the standards and behaviours are met and consistently delivered for the benefit of the business and our customers. Work closely with other senior engineers to create a consistent approach.
Key responsibilities
- Drive performance against set targets and objectives to achieve optimum productivity
- Ensure all staff work within their engineering licence authorisation limits and that these are regularly updated
- Assisting with any issue’s employees may have or complaints that arise.
- Oversee desktop and physical inspection production of detailed technical reports, including site visits with the appropriate members of the management team, to ensure the best cost engineered solution is produced.
- Lead and inspire the engineering team, overseeing the resource plan, recruitment, training and development, performance management and absence.
- Manage and conduct structured, regular audits across the engineering function, ensuring processes are followed and specific customer rates and SLAs are adhered to.
- Review decision making, valuations and salvage categories where appropriate.
- Build strong relationships with AGL’s customers, acting as a key point of contact for engineering and technical issues.
- Proactively roll-out new processes and developments to customers.
- Keep abreast of the latest industry standards and compliance requirements ensuring AGL’s engineering function operates with an appropriate legal framework. Ensure all changes and new requirements are rolled-out in a timely fashion to the team with appropriate delivery plans in place.
- Identify areas for technological advancement in line with expected engineering standards.
- Be an advocate of continuous improvement, working closely with the leadership team to share best practice and drive process improvement.
- Identify new and innovative ways of optimising productivity and improving quality.
- Ensure that all company policies and procedures are followed
- Any other tasks as deemed necessary
Skills and experience
- Strong leadership skills with a track record of managing and coaching engineering or technical experts
- Engineering background and body shop experience
- Experience of using Audatex and the Case Management System
- The ability to work as part of a leadership team and contribute to the future direction of the engineering function
Benefits
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- 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 700 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.