Automotive Technician - 4-Day Week
Christchurch
Automotive Technician – 4-Day Week, High Standards, Proper Systems
Done with messy workshops and guesswork repairs?Good. We are too.
We’re a clean, organised, high-standard workshop looking for a strong mid-level automotive technician who wants more responsibility, better systems, and work they can actually be proud of.
This isn’t a stepping-stone job.It’s a place to sharpen your skills and grow into more.
Why You’ll Love Working Here- $35–$40/hr salary for a qualified tech
- 42-hour week over 4 days - no overtime, no weekends
- Clean, organised workshop with serious standards
- Heavy investment in tools and technology:
- Factory tooling
- Multiple scan tools
- 4-channel scope
- Onsite vapour blasting, Mig and Tig
- Offshore technical help desk support
- Fully paperless using MechanicDesk software
- Every job is videoed and presented clearly to customers
- Autonomy in your bay, backed by morning and afternoon huddles
- Workflow planned properly - the board stays full
- Mistakes are owned, debriefed, and fixed. No blame culture
- Small team now, clear pathway toward Workshop Supervisor as we grow
- Self-containment certifying agency - variety and evolving work, not rinse and repeat
Who We’re Looking For
You’ll fit here if you:
- Are a qualified automotive technician with strong hands-on ability
- Don’t shy away from complex or unusual jobs
- Stay calm when it’s busy and step up when deadlines matter
- Own mistakes quickly and fix them properly
- Treat customers with respect, even in tough conversations
- Are comfortable with technology and digital systems
- Want to keep learning as the workshop evolves
- Work like the business matters - because it does
- This is not the role if you want clock-watching, corner-cutting, or someone else to think for you.
- Diagnosing, servicing, and repairing a wide range of vehicles
- Handling complex jobs with care and accuracy
- Using scopes, scan tools, and factory data properly
- Following our documented processes and quality standards
- Communicating clearly with the team through digital systems
- Keeping your bay clean, organised, and efficient
- Adapting as the workshop and certification requirements evolve
- Zero comebacks
- Full understanding of our systems and processes
- Work that meets our quality standard every time
- Confident handling of varied and complex jobs
How to Apply
Email your CV plus a short note answering this:
What’s the most complex or unusual job you’ve handled, and what did you learn from it?
Subject line: “I’m Your Next Automotive Technician”
If you read this and nodded the whole way through, we want to hear from you.
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