Description
Do you want your weekends free to enjoy the things you love? At the heart of our business is a strong, family-focused culture, which is why we offer a genuine work-life balance – including no weekend working for our technicians.
Do you have a passion for motorcycles and a talent for diagnosing and fine-tuning machines to perfection? We’re looking for a skilled Motorcycle Technician to join our team, working on premium BMW Motorrad bikes and delivering high-quality servicing and repairs.
Hours : 40 hours per week Monday – Friday
Salary Bandings | | Salary | | Bonus | OTE
| Service Technician (Non Brand / ATA) | £30,000 | | £8,000 | £38,000
| ATA Technician | | £32,600 | | £8,200 | £40,800
| Senior Technician | | £34,300 | | £8,600 | £42,900
| Master Technician | | £42,300 | | £2,600 | £44,900
What you will be doing:
* Undertake maintenance, service, and repair activities on motorcycles of all types to the highest standard within the scheduled times
* Carry out work completely and effectively within manufacturers’ servicing and repair times and those set by your manager.
* Test, diagnose faults and repair vehicles as and when requested by your manager or supervisory staff.
* Advise and report on vehicle and parts faults and servicing requirements noticed while working on vehicles, including future servicing repair requirements.
* Look for ways to identify future customer costs savings by recommending preventative maintenance and appropriate vehicle expenditure.
What We're Looking For:
* Supportive, proactive and approachable team player attitude
* Organised and methodical approach to problem solving.
* Good attention to detail
* Excellent time management skills
* Apprenticeship certification or City & Guilds qualification or other adequate qualifications.
* Experience/ knowledge of diagnosis, servicing, maintenance, and repairs of motorcycles
* Ability to work efficiently both independently and as part of a collaborative team
Career development and progression is incredibly important to us so, in return we offer nationally recognised pathway's for BMW Technician Accreditation at the BMW Group Training Academy in Reading, Berkshire, with the opportunity to progress to Senior and Master Technician.
Why work for Vines:
Our employees are dedicated to what they do, so we believe it is important that we give something back. In addition Vines is always striving to be a step ahead in the Automotive industry as such, our Brilliant Benefits at Vines package has all the usual things you would expect such as pension, product discounts and life assurance, but we also offer:
* 24 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) increasing to 29 days as your length of service increases.
* Day off for your birthday
* Staff Car / Motorbike Purchase Scheme
* Medical Health Cash Plan
* Enhanced Parental Benefits
* Work Life Balance – No Sundays!
* Buy and Sell Holiday
* Job Shadowing Scheme
* Business Casual Dress Code
* Highstreet Discount vouchers, sabbatical leave, long service awards and much much more …….
Check out our full list of benefits here:
As well as having the opportunity to work for the iconic BMW and MINI brands you will be part of a successful privately-owned business where our people are our greatest asset.
Our mission is ‘to inspire each other to delight our customers’, we do this through our ‘Winning Together’ brand values;
* Working as One Team
* Being Warm and Welcoming
* Doing what you say you will do
We believe it’s these values which makes us successful.
We all want to be proud of the company we work for and Vines have a great reputation of just that. We want people that not only share our commitment to working hard, but also a commitment to each other. That's why we want individuals that share in one another's success, and have a true belief in what they do.