Chargehand

Arriva Limited

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Darlington Engineering Dept Until 8/21/2026 First posted April 30, 2025 Last posted April 1, 2026
Job description

What Arriva can offer you:

  • 39 hours per week
  • 5 shifts on 7
  • £19.03 per hour with time and a half for OT
  • Permanent, full-time contract
  • Overtime availability
  • Free bus travel for you and a nominated member of your family residing within the same household
  • If you don't have a PCV licence, we teach you to drive a bus!
  • Access to the Arriva Village - Retail discounts and offers
  • Arriva Workplace Pension
  • 25 days holiday per year.

The role will involve:

  • Servicing, maintenance and repairs to Arriva and DVSA standards
  • Continuous improvement of vehicle reliability
  • MOT preparation, planned preventative maintenance campaigns and quality checks
  • Vehicle fault diagnosis and ensuring reliability and maintenance is kept to Arriva Standards (Higher than DVSA)

Requirements:

  • Level 3 NVQ/IRTEC Qualification (Or equivalent)
  • Knowledge of PSV or HGV maintenance
  • Knowledge of engineering procedures and Health & Safety legislation
  • Inspection of vehicles for the scheduled maintenance - Desirable but not essential
  • Electrical circuits and systems knowledge - Desirable but not essential
  • A full UK driving licence (6 points or less) - essential
  • Ability to be passed fit for a PCV pre-employment medical - essential

APPLY NOW to join the Arriva team to help deliver our vision of providing clean, sustainable and reliable transport services to our customers for a greener future.

About this role

Summary

Servicing and maintaining vehicles to Arriva and DVSA standards.

Job title

Chargehand

Experience level

entry level

Industry

transportation

Location requirements

Located in Darlington, remote work not allowed

Salary

£19.03 per hour

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

level 3 nvq/irtec qualificationpsv maintenancehgv maintenanceengineering procedureshealth & safetyuk driving licencepcv pre-employment medical

Preferred skills

vehicle inspectionelectrical circuits

Specializations

maintenancerepairsvehicle reliabilityhealth & safetydiagnosis
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

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On-site