Chief Driver Trainer - Nuneaton, United Kingdom - Horiba Mira

Horiba Mira

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Nuneaton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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2188 Closing date
31/12/202 Salary or hourly rate

- up to £50,000 based on skills & experience

Contract type
Permanent
Role type
Experienced
Location

Nuneaton

MIRA Technology Park
Description

We are recruiting a Chief Driver Trainer into our Proving Ground team. This exciting role will be responsible for the daily management of our driver training function.

The role will also include but is not limited to:

delivering driver training courses for key customers,

- developing new courses to expand our offering to a wider customer base.

The supervision or other team members is key to the role, managing their workflow and ensuring that all training is carried out to the required standard.
Overall responsibilities include project management, preparing quotations and liaison with our commercial team and external customer contacts.
Ownership of operational budgets and monthly reporting on performance
There will also be regular interaction with other team members when working on Proving Ground events or assisting with Engineering based projects.
Maintenance of the driver training fleet of vehicles including the maintenance of customer owned vehicles ensuring they are fit for purpose.

Experience

Experience in a relevant vehicle development or engineering role
Experience of driving vehicles near to the limit of adhesion for testing purposes
Experience of Driver Training
The ability to produce robust risk assessments covering all activities
Have a broad understanding of the automotive industry
Technical background (biased towards a Vehicle Dynamics)
Previous experience of working for an OEM or Tier 1 supplier or consultancy
Experience of managing multiple projects, preparation and pricing of proposals
Woking in a supervisory of management role
Experience of improving processes or delivering improvements in a customer focused role

Skills:

Ability to communicate clearly whilst training customers with varying abilities and English language skills
Must have good presentation and communication skills
Ability to multitask
Project management skills
Considerable driving skills and the ability to drive in a consistent manner

Qualifications:

Essential Qualifications:

Formal vocational qualification in vehicle engineering or related degree
Clean driving licence

Preferred Qualifications

Degree in Automotive Engineering
HGV Licence holder
ADI Licence holder

Other information

HORIBA MIRA has 75 years of heritage in developing some of the world's most iconic vehicles, our engineers utilise the latest test facilities and simulation tools to make vehicles and journeys safer, cleaner, more efficient and rewarding.

At HORIBA MIRA we have a wide range of benefits including:

27 days holiday + statutory days (with the option to participate in a holiday buy/sell scheme)
A generous contributory pension plan
A company performance related bonus scheme
A fantastic Employee Assistance Programme which offers a range of wellbeing services to staff.
Reimbursement of fees for corporate memberships for relevant Chartered/professional institution
A range of tax efficient salary sacrifice options including a cycle to work scheme.

Right to work:

HORIBA MIRA actively promotes diversity and inclusion across our organisation, however this role does not meet the criteria to be considered within the current Home Office Shortage Occupation list.