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Salary- Basic Salary: Circa £35,000 - £40,000 per annum – Dependent on experience
- Monday - Friday – Flexibility within working hours
- Independent Consultant Engineers and Insurance Assesors
- Covering the whole Kent area
- Company Car, Fuel Card, Laptop, Phone, & Broadband Contributions.
This is a key role for the business, ensuring that their clients are receiving accurate reporting and inspections of their vehicles. You will be covering areas such as Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Folkestone, Maidstone & Tonbridge.
This is a customer facing role and with support from your team, will entail estimating on various accident repair sites as well as liaising with clients to arrange a suitable time to assess the vehicle at their homes/places of work, on average covering 7 – 8 inspections per day.
Our client is open to applications for VDA’s with experience within practical setting of the Accident repair network.
We’ve recently just started working with this client, as they very rarely recruit, with a stable work force with several long serving employees. If you are an experienced VDA with Audatex, Glass Repair Estimate or Escribe experience, please get in contact today.
What’s in it for you as a VDA / Estimator?
- A Competitive Basic Salary – Basic Salary up to £40,000.
- Company Vehicle & Fuel Card – Can be used for reasonable personal use.
- Monday - Friday – Flexibility within working hours
- Laptop, printer, mobile phone, sat nav and other general items to undertake the role provided.
- Contributions to home broadband
- 20 days holiday + Bank holidays
- A supportive Management Structure.
- Company Pension.
- Future Development Opportunities.
- Undertake the inspection of damaged vehicles.
- Assessing the full extent of the damage &costs of repair
- Consider the accident circumstances as advised and offer comments if any damage noted at time of inspection is not consistent with the circumstances.
- Identify the correct prescribed repair method and prepare, record, and maintain records of electronic and manual estimates.
- Complete image/desktop inspections as required to support our imaging engineers on quieter days in your area.
- Ensure inspection reports are completed with the agreed time to adhere to service lead agreements.
- You will also effectively liaise with customer’s engineers and technicians to explain and ensure they understand the repair methodology.
- Be able to produce work that complies with the highest technical and quality standards and, above all, helps deliver on their service commitment to customers.
- Self-Motivated and able to work without supervision.
- To work to a high level of professionalism and ethical standards.
- Ideally you will have an ATA Vehicle Damage Assessor Qualification or working towards this.
- String working knowledge of Vehicle construction and Repair techniques.
- Working knowledge of estimating systems such as Audatex, Glass Repair Estimates or similar
- Strong negotiation skills
- Excellent time management skills
- An understanding of vehicle salvage categorisation.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- An understanding of insurance principals and motor claims process.
- Willing to undertake additional training ad qualifications such as AQP for salvage categorisation and IAEA membership.
- You will need to have a full UK/EU Driving Licence
- Right to work within the UK
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