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Truck Technician

Riverside Consultancy Gloucester, GL1 1AH, GB
Dependent on Experience per year
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Job Details

Hours: Shifts
Contract: Full-Time
Department: Service & Support

Job Description

HGV (Truck) Technician

Rygor Auto: Gloucester
Up to £35,360pa DOE. Plus £15 shift allowance per day on late shifts.
One-week early shift 06:00 – 14:30. One-week late shift 14:00 – 22:30, Monday to Friday.

If you’re looking to join an award-winning company that offers a fantastic career, Rygor have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and qualified HGV Technician at their Mercedes-Benz dealership in Gloucester. In this role, you’ll be responsible for keeping their customers’ vehicles on the road through safe, compliant and high-quality maintenance, always delivering exceptional service. At Rygor, they believe in investing in their people, so when you join their technical team, you’ll benefit from ongoing training, annual appraisals and clear opportunities for career progression, ensuring you continue to grow and succeed as part of their expert team.

You will add value by:

  • Performing major and minor repairs to Mercedes-Benz Trucks.
  • Performing regular inspection and general preventive maintenance services.
  • Maintaining inventory in the workshop and ensuring cleanliness from oil spills and dust.
  • Working with repair teams to help diagnose and plan repairs for the vehicles.
  • Maintaining records of vehicles that have been repaired, using all appropriate modules of Keyloop/Kerridge.
  • Completing relevant documentation and paperwork as required and providing warranty claims or escalating them to higher management.
  • Carry out wheel alignment and tyre fitting.
  • Ensuring the highest levels of health and safety, quality and compliance.
  • Complete customer documentation while working to agreed time scales.

Skills & Behaviours Required for this Role:

You will need to be level 3 (NVQ or City and Guilds or IMI Qualification) in HGV Vehicle Repair and maintenance, plus, will have experience in carrying out diagnostic and service repairs. What’s more, you will need the ability to identify worn & faulty components in accordance with the DVSA Standards and have a current, full UK driving license for the relevant vehicle classes.

Benefits for you

  • An extra day off for your Birthday
  • Business closes on 24 December and 27 December in 2025, so you can enjoy your time off over the festive period
  • 20 days of annual leave per year PLUS Bank Holidays
  • Four times the death in service benefit.
  • Working for an official Great Place to Work™️ and UK Best Workplace.
  • Working for a Best UK Workplace for Wellbeing and Development.
  • Awarded Armed Forces Covenant Silver Award (RLS)
  • Working with our award-winning team, we are Motor Trader’s CV and Industry Employer of the Year awards and won silver at the internal communication and engagement awards for our new starter onboarding process.
  • Auto-enrolment pension.
  • Self-development journal
  • Rygor Group Ranked 101 in SW Business Insider’s Top 500 Companies
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay policies.
  • Access to our wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP and 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion).
  • Mental Health First Aiders.
  • Reward and recognition programmes, including our annual Rygor Group Awards and opportunities to attend the Rygor Wembley box as a celebration of your hard work and dedication.
  • Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities.
  • Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training.
  • Long service recognition and annual leave increase after 5 years’ service.
  • Branded uniform and boot allowance
  • Charities of the Year programme, Army Sport sponsors and community engagement initiatives

Our Process

When applying please include a full current CV, once this has been reviewed, we will be in touch to advise if your application will be progressed through to the next stage or not depending on your experience. The Riverside Resourcing & Consultancy recruitment process reflects our obligations under relevant UK legislation. Whilst all applications are carefully considered, we are only able to progress applications from candidates who have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Managing your data

We care about your data. The General Data Protection Regulation provides you with more control and by applying to us, we consider this to be an agreement to process your personal data in support of our recruitment and selection process. Your application data is held within our secure applicant tracking system through hireful - you’ll be given access to a candidate zone in this system where you can monitor and manage your application and see status updates. We will communicate with you, by email or phone, throughout the recruitment process so that we can keep you updated and inform you of your progress through the recruitment process.

Additional Benefits

  • Company Pension
  • Death in Service Cover

About the Company

Rygor Group are an award-winning, multi-franchise Dealer Group with branches across England, offering extensive coverage for customers throughout the M5, M4 and M42 corridors. Their business has gone from strength to strength in recent years, with significant investment in site renovations nationwide and exciting expansions, including the launch of a brand-new Mercedes-Benz Passenger Car Aftersales facility in 2024 and running four new vehicle maintenance units in 2025.
Their commitment to excellence has earned them multiple industry and network awards, and in 2025, they were proud to be named Employer of the Year at the prestigious Motor Trader Awards. They also received the Silver award for our onboarding experience at the ICE awards, meaning that if you're considering a new career with Rygor, you can be confident you'll receive an award-winning induction and support from day one.
They are officially a Great Place to Work™ (four years running), and their company culture truly reflects their core values: Rewarding, Reliable, and Respectful. Exceptional customer service is at the heart of what they do, and so is creating an environment where their team can thrive.
Rygor Group comprises a diverse collection of UK automotive businesses, with a primary focus on trucks, vans, coaches, passenger cars, armoured vehicles, body repairs and coachbuilding. Through the hard work of our team members, we have secured our position as one of the UK’s top automotive Groups, with a turnover of circa £300m a year.

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