Workshop Technician

Job Title: Workshop Technician

Starting Salary: £25,545 progressing to £28,770 - Pay Increase pending

Hours: 37.0

Location: Hertford

Contract Type: Permanent

Directorate: Community Protection

About The Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s Operational Support team with our mission to keep Hertfordshire’s firefighters equipped and ready to respond to operational incidents across the county.

Operational Support is a key area of Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue’s Technical Services department. They hold the responsibility for servicing, maintaining, and repairing a wide variety of firefighting and rescue equipment alongside breathing apparatus and ancillary equipment to enable front line crews to provide an effective operational response.

About The Role

This is a fast paced and often reactive environment, dependant on operational incidents, therefore you’ll need to be able to work under pressure, be able to work as part of a team and be extremely well organised, taking a pro-active approach to your workload.

Typically, you will be:

Ensuring that HFRS operational equipment is inspected & serviced at the correct intervals and is fit for operational use.

Using computerised systems for maintaining records of all equipment inspections, tracking, tracing and managing of assets.

Servicing, maintaining and repairing HFRS equipment both at Operational Support Workshop’s and other locations as necessary i.e. fire stations and operational incidents.

The movement, transport and carrying of equipment, as required, within the area covered by HFRS.

About You

Essential:

Proven experience in:

• Self Contained Breathing Apparatus SCBA
• Fire and Rescue Service Ladders
• Combustion powered portable pumps operations and/or maintenance
• Full UK driving licence
  
  
  

Desirable:

• LGV driving licence
  
  
  

This job role is within the Operational Services, level OPS7 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Operational services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact [email protected] or [email protected] for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: TBC

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

Disability Confident

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding

This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving Required

You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency

The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.