Sponsorship to work in the UK - Vehicle Panel Beaters / Strip and Assembler

Job title: Sponsored Panel Beater / Strip and Assembler

Department: Activate Accident Repair

Location: United Kingdom

Hours: 45 hours per week

We’re looking for qualified Technicians 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

This role will be Sponsored by Activate Accident Repair. To obtain sponsorship you must have the following before applying for a Visa:

• Police Clearance
• English Test for Visa (IELTS or equivalent)
• Tuberculosis Test

Once we have received your CV, we will be in touch with you to meet on a video call. There will be a team travelling to South Africa in October where a Skills Assessment Day will be carried out.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure customer satisfaction in the repair of motor vehicles of all types.
• Carry out such work in a safe and economical manner.
• Employ such knowledge and skills as may be required to restore vehicles to a high standard.
• Observe, recognise and report on vehicle body damage.

Skills and experience

• Qualified Technician.
• Great attitude to work and all members of staff.
• Work well as a team.
• Good communication skills.
• Good decision making and problem solving skills.
• Good H&S knowledge/awareness and compliance.
• Time served repair technician.
• Good time management skills.
• Relevant industry experience.

Benefits

• Sponsorship
• Flight to UK paid for
• First month's accommodation paid
• 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 800 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.