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Job Description

• JOB TITLE:  Maintenance Controller
• SALARY: £36,225
• LOCATION(S): Watford
• HOURS: Full-time
• WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Watford office. During the training period, we do ask new starters to be in the office 5 days a week until they are competent and fully trained unless an exception is requested whereby we will adapt and support

About this Opportunity

As a Maintenance Controller you’ll be responsible for the co-ordination of vehicle repairers and our suppliers to ensure a cost effective process and to ensure a great customer experience.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We’re an award winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future. We’re committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers. Please visit for Tusker car website for more information

What you’ll need

• Extensive knowledge of the repair and maintenance of motor vehicles (Cars & LCV’s) both combustion engine & electric vehicles.
• Experience of working in a manufacturer’s franchised dealership in both workshop & service desk environments.
• Strong customer service orientation & telephone negotiation / persuasion skills.
• Excellent communication skills with a confident and polite telephone manner
• Experience of working in a cost approval & audit function either in a lease co. or other similar organisation.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• The first point of resolution for vehicle related topics e.g. Breakdown, SMR, Tyre replacement, downtime management.
• Ensuring calls are answered within required timescales, complete worksheets, monitor downtime cases, Tyre approvals and any other team activity is dealt with efficiently.
• Manage, approve and audit all SMR (service, maintenance & repair) and Tyre requests ensuring adherence to the Tusker Maintenance Policy.
• Ensure all transactions are approved at the lowest possible cost price to Tusker.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 24 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
• Ready to start growing with purpose?Apply today.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.