Description
Location: Widnes
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday, alternate Saturdays
Are you ready to be challenged and grow your skills in a dynamic workshop environment? We’re looking for a motivated HGV and Trailer Technician to join our team and play a key role in maintaining our fleet of Walking Floor and HGV vehicles to the highest standards.
Key Responsibilities
* Carrying out vehicle and trailer safety inspections, servicing, defect repairs, MOT preparations, and breakdown support.
* Maintaining vehicle ancillaries and specialist body applications.
* Supporting mobile and fixed plant maintenance when required.
* Ensuring accurate and compliant maintenance records.
* Updating our Freeway system with defect rectification and repair logs.
* Communicating effectively with operations teams regarding downtime and repair status.
* Assisting with asset onboarding, decommissioning, and refurbishment projects.
* Ensure fleet compliance with DVSA and Operator’s Licence standards.
* Prepare trailers for MOT and refurbish assets (e.g. floor replacements).
* Maintain a clean, safe, and organised work area in line with SSOW and H&S guidelines.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Essential:
* Solid understanding of workshop maintenance systems.
* Strong communication skills.
* Competent in Microsoft Word, Excel, and tablet use.
* Holder of a C1+E licence.
Desirable:
* IRTEC qualification (training provided if not held).
* Experience with Freeway or similar fleet management systems.
Benefits
* 28 days paid holiday (rising to 33 days)
* Health cash plan & virtual GP access
* Pension scheme & life assurance
* Employee referral scheme
* High street discounts
* Driver representatives & employee forum
* Personal development opportunities
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Free eye tests
Seras is the UK’s number one supplier of biomass fuel, with long-term contracts to supply 1.7 million tonnes of fuel to biomass plants, generating renewable energy equivalent to the annual domestic electricity needs of 2% of the UK population.
Our core business is to supply biomass fuel, which we process from waste wood and by products, and deliver it to a large number of power plants.
We are proud of what we do and the way we do it. Our approach is driven by our desire to “do things differently”. We provide services to help our customers decarbonise their power generation as we transition to a zero-carbon economy.
Waste wood and by-products are a valuable resource that should be used to generate value for all of us and our communities.
We invest in our best-in-class infrastructure, cutting edge technology and most importantly, our skilled and dedicated people, to ensure that we maximise the financial and environmental benefits at every stage of the process of transforming waste into renewable energy.