[News] Enterprise Flex-E-Rent Recruits More Than 100 Commercial Vehicle Technicians

• Meeting surge in demand for commercial vehicle repair

• Every technician receives comprehensive and personalised training and career planning 

• State of the art in-house repair capability cuts vehicle off-road time by around a third

Enterprise Flex-E-Rent is recruiting more than 100 new technicians and has significantly expanded its technician training programme as part of its strategy to develop the UK commercial vehicle rental sector’s most comprehensive repair and maintenance capability.

This is part of Enterprise Flex-E-Rent’s on-going efforts to increase the number of mechanics working at the 28 depots around the UK. Automotive Apprentices Join Enterprise Flex-E-Rent

The company’s training programme now provides bespoke career planning and training for every technician, which includes between 3,500 and 4,000 training hours every month. 

This enables them to track their career path as they develop their expertise across Enterprise Flex E-Rent’s complete range of vans, trucks, refrigerated vehicles and specialist vehicles – and now its fast-growing fleet of electric vans.

As well as increasing its technician workforce, Enterprise Flex-E-Rent has invested more than £1m in diagnostic and workshop equipment across its depots over the past couple of years and is now certified to handle warranty repairs for Ford and Mercedes commercial vehicles – the manufacturers of some of the UK’s best-selling vans. 

Enterprise Flex-E-Rent is also developing capability for maintaining and repairing electric vans, with more than 500 of these vehicles now available through the Enterprise Flex-E-Rent fleet. Across its wider fleet Enterprise has around 3,000 EVs.

This major investment in people, training and equipment has seen recent average vehicle off-road times (VOR) for Enterprise Flex-E-Rent vehicles at its in-house workshop network fall to around two-thirds of VOR seen for Enterprise Flex-E-Rent vehicles in OEM and dealership repair facilities.

These OEM and dealership facilities are often seeing higher VOR periods, possibly due to a combination of surging demand for vans and trucks as the UK economy continues to recover and operators running their fleets for longer as a result of new vehicle and parts supply constraints.

James Walker, Group Service Maintenance and Repair Manager at Enterprise Flex-E-Rent said: “Our goal is to build an exceptional technical and maintenance resource internally to provide our customers with lower off-road times and help businesses get their vehicles back as soon as possible.

“The key element is bringing in and developing the best automotive brains in the UK. Investment in people is at the core of Enterprise’s business, supported by investing heavily in our workshop infrastructure and parts supply chain.

“We’re looking to recruit more great technicians to meet increasing customer demand, from entry level apprentices to mechanics with some experience wanting to reskill. We’re expanding our rigorous training programme to help ensure they have the skills and knowledge required to work on anything from a plug-in electric van to a traffic management vehicle to a 44-tonne refrigerated HGV.”

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