This is an exciting opportunity to join our workshop team and contribute to the repair and maintenance of Brighton and Hove City Council's diverse fleet in accordance with the relevant legislation, manufacturer's instructions, and maintenance schedules. What is important to us? You will be willing to learn about modern technologies. Reliability will be essential as you will be working in a working in a busy workshop environment. You will hold a full driving licence, ideally for HGV. The successful candidate will have experience of working with HGV, PSV, LCV and light plant and commercial vehicles such as minibuses. Ideally, you will be qualified to level 3 or equivalent in HGV/LCV mechanics. For someone with the right skills and experience we offer: A good holiday allowance - Annual leave 28 - 30 days, plus bank holidays Employee benefits package including attractive pension scheme A staff discount scheme Training and progression opportunities Monday to Friday on a day shift with overtime available Enhanced pay for voluntary Bank Holiday working For an informal discussion please contact Edward Major or Mark Martin 01273294705 or email ted.major@brighton-hove.gov.uk About the role You will be someone who is willing to learn about new technologies with background in a busy workshop environment as well as acquiring different skillsets due to the diversity of the fleet in house or with other providers. Your key tasks will be: To maintain, service and inspect a fleet, including HGV, non HGV and specialist vehicles, Heavy and light plant (including MOT programme) in accordance with legislation, manufacturer's recommendations and with 'O' licence requirements. To work with advanced electronic diagnostic systems, interpret technical data and apply knowledge in order to carry out complex diagnosis, and repair faults in a timely manner. To ensure all paperwork, as required by legislation, and associated with repairs and potential insurance claims are completed compliantly and correctly signed off. To ensure that drivers reporting faults have carried out the appropriate paperwork and procedures. To undergo the necessary manufacturer's training on vehicles and equipment and training on legislative and technical changes, in order to keep up to date with fast moving technologies and legislation. To maintain accurate records in order to produce records regarding vehicle and machinery repairs, as requested. To carry out all work independently ensuring a quality of service is maintained so that all vehicles are maintained to the highest standards to comply with health and safety requirements. To keep the workshop and store clean and tidy and to undertake cleaning tasks as required. Additional information Shortlisting and interviews happen on a frequent basis, please submit applications as soon as possible. This advert may be withdrawn if the vacancies are filled and headcount complete. Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only. We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense. For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us Encouraging a diverse workforce Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, female or trans. Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk). Why work for us? As a council, we want to: • be connected • be confident • be innovative and creative • be diverse and inclusive • be healthy and psychologically safe For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development. How to apply Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you've submitted your application and at interview. As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process. AI advice for candidates We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application. We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert. All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants' responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.