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The Posting
An excellent and rewarding job opportunity has arisen for a PSV Chargehand to join Arriva, based at our Darlington Depot.
What Arriva can offer you:
- £19.03ph (with the opportunity for overtime at 1.5 x hourly rate)
- 39 hours per week
- Permanent, full-time contract
- Overtime availability
- Free bus travel for you and a nominated member of your family residing within the same household
- If you don't have a PCV licence, we teach you to drive a bus!
- Access to the Arriva Village - Retail discounts and offers
- Arriva Workplace Pension
- 20 days holiday, rising to 25 after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays
The role will involve:
- Servicing, maintenance and repairs to Arriva and DVSA standards
- Continuous improvement of vehicle reliability
- MOT preparation, planned preventative maintenance campaigns and quality checks
- Vehicle fault diagnosis and ensuring reliability and maintenance is kept to Arriva Standards (Higher than DVSA)
Requirements:
- Level 3 NVQ/IRTEC Qualification (Or equivalent)
- Knowledge of PSV or HGV maintenance
- Knowledge of engineering procedures and Health & Safety legislation
- Inspection of vehicles for the scheduled maintenance - Desirable but not essential
- Electrical circuits and systems knowledge - Desirable but not essential
- A full UK driving licence (6 points or less) - essential
- Ability to be passed fit for a PCV pre-employment medical - essential
- APPLY NOW to join the Arriva team to help deliver our vision of providing clean, sustainable and reliable transport services to our customers for a greener future.
Facts
- Source
- Workday
- External id
- JR031395-2
- Location
- Durham, United Kingdom
- Remote
- Not stated
- Employment
- Full time
- Posted
- 16 Dec 2025
- First seen
- 25 Oct 2026, 11:24
- Last seen
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:50
- Status
- Not yet added
- Posting id
- 3373915c-bbf5-5759-b92c-9f4cb281c1c1
