Total 2 Senior Executive level Transportation / Logistics job vacancies in Glasgow, Scotland

Job Role – Senior Cosmetic Vehicle Technician

Salary - £44,582 (£19 an hour)

Location – BCA Glasgow

Working Hours - 45 hours a week Monday to Friday 07:00-17:00 with an hour break

Type of Employment – Permanent

Join the UK’s largest B2B used vehicle service

At BCA, we’re altogether, more. More than just a normal vehicle remarketing company. More than just any other place to work. We’re Europe's largest vehicle remarketing company, the backbone of the UK’s automotive supply chain, the best place to build the career you want.

Now, this is where you fit in…

We’re looking for down-to-earth people, with bags of energy, ready to make their mark on the automotive industry. Our Site Operations and Driving teams play a vital role across our business. Here you can build on your knowledge and find your specialty at one of our sites or on the road – the opportunities are endless.

Main purpose of the role

To lead the onsite Vehicle Enhancement Team to meet daily production targets in line with customer standards and KPI’s. Ensuring effective management of staff, maximisation of available resources and a positive customer experience.

Your key responsibilities will be:


Ensure all sites targets are met.
Ensure all Customer KPI’s are met by supporting & developing their Smart Repairs team.
Quality Assurance check all work produced by the Vehicle Enhancement Team to ensure high standards of work are maintained and customer expectations are met.
To ensure customer Service Level Agreements are adhered to by chasing down priority vehicles ensuring they are repaired within the requested time scales.
To support the Repair Team with a hands-on approach as required to ensure efficiencies & volumes are maximised.
Action upgrades & downgrades by liaising with inspection teams to enhance quality of production & service delivery.
Ensure all work is completed within the time allotted and work efficiently to ensure you meet the required standards.
Identify sub-standard repairs and action rectification early.
Develop and maintain professional and positive working relationships with colleagues and customer.
Ensure that all employment, environmental, health and safety, PPE and other policies are strictly always adhered to.
To complete all the repair(s) up to the Company standard ready for final quality control up to and including all forms of prep work, masking, priming, paint mixing, paint & polish work.


To be successful, you’ll bring some of the following experience with you:

Technical skills:


Leadership skills.
Communication.
Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
Develop and maintain professional and positive working relationships with colleagues.
The ability to achieve high volume on demand to meet our KPI's.
Good attention to detail.


Essential


Experienced vehicle painter / prepper / Polisher / Supervisor.
Full UK driving license.


We’ve put everything in place to ensure you thrive. Competitive salaries, strong core values and an excellent benefits package that includes:


Company Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance (role dependent)
An Employee Assistance Programme
Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
Access to trained mental health first aiders


And so much more…

As the automotive industry changes, we’re changing with it - putting our people in the front seat for the journey. We’re the number one in what we do for a reason and that’s because of the people we have on our teams. If you want to be a part of a business like this; unrivalled, exciting, and appreciative of the work you do, join BCA.

We are proud to be Level 1 Disability Confident and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.

Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or disability.

INDLP

Salary: Lecturer £45,585 - £56,021, Senior Lecturer £57,696 - £64,914, Reader £66,857 - £70,918
FTE: 2 X1.0
Term: Open-ended
Closing Date: 2 August 2024

The Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM) is an internationally leading department, Delivering Total Engineering for responsible and sustainable futures. We seek to appoint two positions as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader in Supply Chain Engineering Management. These posts are part of a wider talent and thought leader recruitment strategy. In the UK, a Lecturer is tenured and at Assistant Professor level, a Senior Lecturer is tenured and at Associate Professorship level, and a Reader position is tenured and at next level following an Associate Professorship, equivalent to a promoted Professorship as it is, for example, termed in Sweden.

We are part of the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Strathclyde, our vision is bold and ground breaking, placing us amongst the world’s leading international technological universities. The University is situated in the heart of Glasgow, with an international community including 22,000 students and more than 3,000 staff from 100 countries. Strathclyde is ‘the place of useful learning’ and is recognised internationally for its close working relationships with businesses and its partnerships with industry, government and industry.

We are proud of our well-established collaborations with academic and industrial partners. With more than 150 staff including the technical specialist centre, more than 100 Postgraduate Research (PGR) students both PhD and EngD, and more than 650 students from over 30 nations, we are a vibrant, international community.
Are you passionate about working on global challenge and societal transitions, including sustainability, healthcare, food systems, or manufacturing systems?
The position is aimed at research leaders who have a technical background, e.g. in operations and production engineering or related disciplines bridging to business and social sciences. Engineering Management is a core area and one of the three main pillars that DMEM is founded on and critical to it being a unique Department in the UK with a rising number of students registering for associated programmes.

You will thrive on theory-driven and empirically-validated research excellence, learning and teaching with and for engineering leaders of the future. In addition to research and teaching, there are also opportunities for career progression through industrial engagement / knowledge exchange tracks.
Operations and production management or engineering supply chain management expertise plays a vital role across the Department’s key activities of research, teaching and knowledge exchange.

You must have research experience and interests consistent with the strategic direction of the Department, Faculty and University and you will have experience of research leadership, including support of senior researchers in a University or industrial environment and management of research teams/projects/programmes. You will have extensive experience of delivering high quality teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students including experience of developing and managing large teaching programmes and you will have experience of PhD/EngD research project supervision in Higher Education.

You will have an outstanding/sustained track record of published research in high quality publications demonstrating standards of excellence, with an international reputation. You will have an outstanding/substantial track record of securing research funding through relevant successful collaborative research grant applications and you will have an established national/international reputation as an expert and leader within Supply Chain Engineering Management. You will be an excellent educator and mentor and will show leadership in identifying key research questions and attracting funding support. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong people skills and an ability to operate as part of a team.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Anja Maier, Head of Department (anja.maier@strath.ac.uk).

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