MET​/Panel Technician

Overview

📍 Southampton

💷 Competitive salary + Bonus

🕒 Full Time | Monday – Friday | Saturday as required

About The Role

Join Harwoods Group, a top 30 UK automotive dealer, as a MET/Panel Technician. You'll lead and carry out MET repairs to manufacturer standards, support the team, and ensure top-quality, right-first-time results.

• Strip & refit vehicles per job cards
• Carry out diagnostics & component replacements
• Ensure correct parts & repair methods used
• Sign off QC checks & final inspections
• Support & mentor team members
• Help maintain a safe, clean, and efficient workshop
• To ensure the highest standard of repairs are carried out to the manufacturers specification, specifically relating to panel replacement and repair
• To ensure all work is completed to the customers satisfaction and strive to exceed their expectations

• 2+ years’ MET/bodyshop experience
• NVQ/ATA/IMI/SVQ Level 3 (or equivalent)
• Strong mechanical & electrical skills
• Eye for detail and high-quality standards
• Confident, team-focused, proactive attitude

• ✅ Competitive pay + bonus
• ✅ Pension scheme
• ✅ 5 weeks holiday
• ✅ Ongoing training & development
• ✅ Join a trusted, values-led company

Harwoods Group is a values-led, family-owned automotive retail group founded in 1931. Our values are lived by all of our colleagues to enable industry-leading customer experience and colleague engagement:

• We treasure our people and our customers
• We challenge ourselves to grow & improve
• We take responsibility
• We work as one team
• We inject energy and fun into our work

We are a top 30 automotive dealer group, as ranked by annual turnover on AM100, representing brand partners:
Bentley, McLaren, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, Audi, Volvo, BMW & Mini (Service), MAN. We operate across 5 counties in the South East of England:
Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Hampshire.

With a high colleague engagement score of 72%, Harwoods Group has a differentiator with our industry-leading people development programme, including recruitment and selection; onboarding; induction; probation; talks on one-to-ones;
Harwoods Academy; succession and development; colleague recognition.

After continued growth, we now operate with circa 1,100 colleagues across circa 28 state-of-the-art facilities.

We demand the best for our colleagues and our customers and look forward to your application at

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