Overview
This role is to provide an effective maintenance, repair, and construction service throughout the company to minimise building defects, reduce downtime, and maximise regular maintenance.
Responsibilities
- Respond quickly to emergency situations.
- Perform routine maintenance on production equipment and repair when necessary.
- Work late hours, overnight, and weekends as required.
- Provide customer service and relate with diverse people.
- Use critical thinking to identify and resolve problems.
- Carry out an intensive program of planned preventive maintenance for all company buildings and utilities.
- Maintain full, accurate, and timely maintenance logs, schedules, etc. to comply with Health and Safety legislation and company, insurance, ISO requirements.
- Contact external contractors as required and accompany/assist them while on site.
- Ensure adequate supplies of spares on site for commonly used parts or those with long lead time.
- Create and continuously update technical files for plant and equipment from liaison with suppliers, operators, or own knowledge.
- Carry out daily, weekly, and monthly health and safety checks and inspections and take timely corrective action.
- Report problems and unsafe practices to relevant supervisors and Health and Safety, together with recommendations for improvements.
- Ensure quality procedures relating to maintenance are followed, e.g., calibration of measuring equipment.
- Communicate process changes to relevant parties so that follow‑up may be carried out, e.g., training.
- Ensure full and timely reporting of all major breakdowns, significant problems, repair requirements, delays, or machine downtime to relevant personnel.
- Liaise with customers and suppliers as necessary to clarify technical details and overcome problems.
- Any other reasonable duties or project work which may be required by management from time to time.
Company Background
Solus, owned by Aviva, is one of the UK leaders in vehicle repairs, returning cars to the road in just 11 days on average and having a 4.6/5 star customer rating.
We have an award‑winning apprenticeship programme and have won other recognised industry awards. Solus is proud to be shaping the future of vehicle repair.
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on location, skills, experience, and qualifications.
- Bonus opportunity tied to performance and the overall success of Solus.
- Company pension scheme with employer contributions.
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days.
- Up to 40% discount on Aviva products and other retailer discounts.
- Share in Aviva’s success through the Aviva Save As You Earn scheme.
- Supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.
- Wellbeing focus with tools like Group Income Protection and 24/7 GP access.
Equality and Diversity
At Solus, we value inclusivity and welcome all applicants. We guarantee an interview for disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria. If you’re excited but don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply – your unique skills might be just what we need.
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