Technical Trainer
Warwick, GB, CV34 5YA
Competitive Salary, Annual Company Bonus and Company Car
Location: Home based with frequent regional travel across the South and East of England | Head Office: Warwick | Training Centre: Reading
At Volvo Trucks, we don’t just build trucks. We drive prosperity through innovative transport and infrastructure solutions that empower societies and businesses around the world. We build more than transport, we build people. We are proud to be a global leader in sustainable transport solutions, but even prouder of the people behind it.
Due to retirement, we are now looking for a Technical Trainer. Someone who is ready to take a step into supporting the development and growth of our people across the dealer network and our valued customers.
You know what good looks like on a workshop floor. Maybe you’re an HGV Technician or a Workshop controller, who’s always been the go to person for advice. Maybe you've enjoyed coaching apprentices or mentoring your team. Now, you're ready to do more to inspire others, share your expertise, and help shape the future of Volvo Trucks technical capability.
What Volvo Trucks Can Offer You:
- Professional growth and development: Such as becoming an Assessor for EMOB and supporting you to achieve Level 4 in Education & Training.
- Company bonus: Enjoy up to a 5% yearly bonus provided by the company.
- Holiday Allowance: Start with 25 days plus Bank Holidays, increasing with service, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days.
- Pension scheme: We offer a matched pension scheme of up to 5% of your salary, with incremental benefits based on length of service, including death in service cover.
- Healthcare: Benefit from access to Bupa Cover and Dental insurance.
- Employee Assistance Programme: Take advantage of wellness, mindfulness and counselling services to support your overall well-being.
- Maternity and Paternity leave: Maternity leave (6 months full pay, 6 months half pay) and 5 weeks of paternity leave, with 3 weeks flexible to take at any point.
- Discounts on various purchases: Enjoy savings on shopping vouchers, cinema tickets, holidays and travel.
- Fitness perks: MyGymDiscounts and MyActiveDiscounts
You can learn more about the rewards and benefits of working at Volvo Group here: Volvo Group Employee Benefits
Who Are You and Your New Colleagues?
You're a hands on expert with strong workshop knowledge and even stronger people skills. You have naturally taken on a coaching or mentoring role in the team.
You’ll bring with you:
- A solid understanding of how retail network’s function
- A strong technical background with experience on the workshop floor.
- Experience with workshop IT systems or similar industry tools
- Strong understanding of how dealer networks operate and what great customer service means
- Excellent communicator, able to engage confidently at all levels, both written and verbal
- Skilled at building trust and sharing knowledge in an approachable way
- Proactive self-starter who works well independently and adapts to change
- Level 4 NVQ heavy vehicle Maintenance or a Master Technician Qualification
You’ll report to our Technical Training Manager and become part of a collaborative, experienced team. Day-to-day, you’ll partner closely with internal colleagues, the dealer network and large fleet customers.
What You’ll do:
- Deliver engaging training sessions that follow clear module specifications and align with our business’s commercial competence plans.
- Ensure that learning sticks by embedding and re-evaluating competence development promptly, making sure every training activity truly builds the skills needed.
- Collaborate closely with external suppliers to maintain high quality and consistent training programs across the network.
- Take ownership of delivering all agreed competence development solutions professionally, effectively and on time.
- Support a variety of key Competence Development initiatives including apprenticeship programmes, the Technician of the Year competition and others.
- Create bespoke learning packages based on defined needs
- Help shape the learning environment across our network
- Travel regularly across the south and east deliver training and visit sites,
- Travel to Sweden for additional training and development.
Whether you're a trainer in the making or already delivering in a technical coaching role, Apply today!
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Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.