Careers At Whale Tankers
We currently have 4 jobs available.
5 Decades' Trading
Our Greatest Asset
With over 5 decades of trading and over 220 employees our experience has taught us that our employees are our greatest assets
11 Years' Average Service
Long Service
With an average length of service of 11 years’ we don’t like to lose people once they have joined.
Excellent Training
Ongoing training
Full induction programme that includes Health and Safety, manual handling and job-specific training with an ongoing commitment to training.
Company Benefits And Bonuses
Benefits
As well as a competitive salary, we offer a number of benefits including Bupa membership
Our Ethos
With over 5 decades of trading and over 220 employees, our experience has taught us that our employees are our greatest assets. With an average length of service of 11 years, we don’t like to lose people once they have joined.
Absenteeism is low and we aim to keep it that way by offering benefits of BUPA and bonuses to encourage and help people come to work.
Rewards
As an employer, Whale Tankers provides a range of rewards and benefits for people who join the team. Whale recognises the contribution employees make to the success of the business.
We offer:
- A competitive salary
- The opportunity to invest in our share ownership scheme
- A company-funded pension scheme
- 25 days’ holiday entitlement, plus bank holidays
- A number of bonuses
Training
We offer a full induction programme that includes Health and Safety, manual handling and job-specific training among other areas.
Equal Opportunities
Whale strives to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applicants regardless of age, gender, race or disability.
Current Vacancies
Location – Factory Based
Job Description
The role will include:
- Working in the Rebuild area of our factory, building our tankers after the paint process has been completed
- Fitting pneumatic, hydraulic and electrical systems to our tankers
- Maintaining a clean, organised and productive work area
- Adhering, and working, to Health and Safety regulations
- Full training will be given to the right individual
Job Requirements
- Background working in a production environment particularly body building is an advantage
- Hydraulic and pneumatic knowledge would be useful
- Experience in or an aptitude for vehicle electrical systems would be beneficial
- Ability to understand drawings would be of benefit
- Ability to use your own initiative
- Team working
- Attention to detail, working to high standards
- Being mechanically minded is essential
- Ability to work under pressure
Package
- Starting salary is £22,000, dependent on skills, aptitude and experience, with the potential to progress to £32,000
- Additional role-relevant training provided
- Company Pension Scheme
- BUPA
- Comprehensive bonus structure
- Opportunity to join share ownership scheme
- Working week 39.5 hours
Location – Factory Based
Job Description
The role will include:
- Servicing vehicles both Whale and Non Whale
- Repairs to vehicles both Whale and Non Whale
- Completion of all paperwork in a timely manner
- Identifying opportunities for additional work and reporting this
- Maintaining a clean, organised and productive work area
- Adhere, and work, to Health and Safety regulations
Job Requirements
A Background in the majority of the following areas
- Vehicle Electrics
- Pneumatics
- Hydraulics
- General Mechanical Skills
- Fault finding skills
- Ideally have an engineering apprenticeship
- Whilst not essential knowledge of commercial vehicles or agricultural machines would be beneficial
- A full UK driving licence
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to use own initiative
- Ability to read and follow drawings
- There will be occasions where you need to work outside in all weathers
- It is essential that you are able to work in confined spaces and at height
Package
- Starting salary £25,000 – £29,000 (dependent on skills and experience) with the ability to get up to £32,900
- 39.5 hours
- Company Pension Scheme
- BUPA
- Comprehensive bonus structure
- Opportunity to join share ownership scheme
Location – Service Admin Department
Job Description
The role will include:
- Raising job sheets and book work into the workshop.
- Update the service schedule with service jobs.
- Maintain Workshop job sheets. Enter parts used and reconcile hours booked.
- Research, prepare and generate workshop repair quotations.
- Order parts in preparation for workshop repair jobs.
- Maintain stock and re-order when necessary.
- Raise purchase orders, reconcile costs and book stock in.
- Arrange Transport collection and deliveries.
- Enter workshop hours onto the system.
- Chase workshop job purchase orders.
- Maintain job folders on the company server
- Administer Oil waste disposal. Manage stock levels.
- Processing customer order numbers for jobs.
- Liaising with customers and service engineers.
- Invoicing repairs
- Take credit card payments
- Administrating of holiday system
- Booking and administration of ADR tests
- Administration of workshop equipment check sheets
- Scheduling engineers vans stock stake and audits
- Scheduling engineers vans in at garages when required
- Assist with bi-annual engineer meetings
- Scheduling of engineer training
- Any other ad hoc duties
Job Requirements
- Computer Literacy including Word and Excel
- Attention to detail
- Good communication skills
- Flexibility
- Highly organised
- Conscientious
- Able to prioritise work
- Able to work under pressure
Package
- Starting salary £19,000 per annum
- Working 39.5 hours Monday – Friday
- Company Pension Scheme
- BUPA
- Comprehensive bonus structure
- Opportunity to join share ownership scheme
Role:
Working with other designers in the Engineering Department to provide
- Programmable controller based designs
- PLC programming
- Electronics support
For the wide range of specialist high-performance jetting and vacuum tanker systems manufactured by Whale Tankers.
Responsibilities to include:
- Design and support of PLC based control systems
- Selection of appropriate electrical and electronic equipment
- Design and support for electrical circuits
- Training of technical, production, sales and service staff
- Developing supporting documentation
- Review of electrical safety and reliability aspects
Knowledge and experience should include:
- Experience of Electrical/Electronic/PLC design work
- PLC application programming (mainly CoDeSys/IEC61131 function block logic)
- Broad understanding of control and automation systems
- PLC programming & testing
- Typical industrial sensors and other equipment & interfacing
- Electrical test and data logging equipment
- Computer literate
- AutoCAD or similar
It would be an advantage to have some knowledge of:
- Hydraulics, pneumatics, water and vacuum pumps
- Radio control
- Knowledge of IFM programmable controllers and equipment
- Power supplies
- EMC and circuit protection, reliability issues
- Fieldbus systems, especially CAN
- Safety (Machinery, ATEX, Intrinsic Safety)
- Environmental requirements/packaging
- Computers and operating systems
Person specification:
- Self motivated, problem solver
- Methodical worker, attention to detail
- Multi-tasker
- Self reliant
- May need to work off site occasionally
- Able to set schedules and work in a timely manner
- Able to react to changing priorities
- Team worker, good communication skills
Package:
- Salary DOE
- 5 hours per week
- Company Pension Scheme
- BUPA
- Comprehensive bonus structure
- Opportunity to join share ownership scheme
When we have no vacancies, or none which you feel are relevant to you, you can still apply speculatively, explaining which role would be your preference. If you would like to apply speculatively , click on the Apply Now button.
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