Role: Parts Assistant
Location: BIRMINGHAM (WALSALL)
Salary: £23,000- £24,00 PLUS BENEFITS
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Parts Assistant to join the UK’s leading Accident and Collision Repair specialists in our increasingly busy and expanding site in Birmingham (Walsall).
As part of a team of specialist advisors you are responsible for sourcing parts for the bodyshop. Your responsibility as Parts Advisor will be to assist with the day to day running of the parts department. Daily duties will include receiving parts into stock, booking of parts to workshop jobs, maintaining stock levels and dealing with internal customers. Utilising your sound knowledge of vehicle layout, parts catalogues, and computer stock lists, you’ll also ensure our pricing structures are kept up-to-date, and that stock control is always secure and well maintained.
Our Bodyshop is fast paced and exciting with lots of opportunity to make an incredible difference and apply your expertise and skill.
You will report into the General Manager who has been with the business for a number of years. They are as passionate about Customers as they are about their Team and is absolutely determined to make their Bodyshop the best in group. It’s an amazing team!
About You
As a Parts Assistant, we would like you to have an interest and passion in what we do. With a professional appearance we would also appreciate it if you have a customer focus and teamwork mentality and are IT Literate. As a given you must have experience working in fast paced role, ideally within the automotive industry experience, be that dealership, accident repair, or sales. A full UK Driving Licence is also an essential requirement for the role.
We will help and support you with the rest.
Why choose FMG RS?
Of course, we offer a fantastic basic salary, but there’s much more to being a Parts Assistant at FMG RS than just that. Some of our most popular benefits include (but aren’t limited to) …
• free life assurance
• well-being services (incl. Health Cash Plan, Dental Plan & Travel Insurance)
• discounted, flexible Gym memberships
• exclusive employee vehicle-leasing schemes
• pension & save-as-you-earn share scheme
• Our Benefits App offering unlimited access to a huge range of retailer discounts and cashback deals (incl. Tesco, Asda, Currys, B&Q & Wickes to name just a few)
We’re going places …
• We’re a key part of one of the UK’s largest Automotive plc’s, Redde Northgate – few other businesses can offer you the volume, variety and long-term security as us;
• We invest in you – We believe everyone should have the opportunity to better themselves and look to progress, not just within FMG RS but the wider Redde Northgate Group;
• We’re growing – it’s an exciting time for the industry and we’re committed to being at the cutting edge, investing in everything from our EV capabilities, our workshops to our Training Centres;
Join the FMG RS family
With the best people in the industry within our Group, we really believe that no one else can do what we do as well as us. So what are you waiting for?
Apply Today!
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