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£1500 Sign On Bonus from 1st September 2025 \n · £750 upon joining \n · £250 once accredited Stellantis &You \n · £500 after 12 months employment \n Vehicle Technician based at our Preston branch: 382 Blackpool Rd, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston PR2 2DS \n\n • Career Opportunity in a manufacturer owned dealership\n, • Additional £91 per month salary uplift for MOT qualified technicians\n\n About Us \n Stellantis &You is an integral division of Stellantis, a premier global automotive manufacturer renowned for its array of iconic brands, including Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Citroen, DS, Fiat, Fiat Professional, Jeep, Peugeot, and Vauxhall. We are committed to fostering individual growth and recognise the hard work, flexibility, and commitment of our people so we offer an industry leading benefits package alongside our competitive basic salary and bonus opportunities. \n Additional Benefits \n\n • Company Car Scheme: Enjoy the opportunity to access up to two company branded vehicles with insurance, servicing and breakdown & tyre cover included!\n, • Company Discounts: Exclusive discounts on new cars and a range of aftersales services, including MOT, body shop, parts, services, and tyres.\n, • Pension: Benefit from a generous employer pension contribution of up to 7%.\n, • Annual Holiday: Start with 22 days of annual leave, which increases to 26 with continued service, in addition to bank holidays.\n, • Reward Gateway: Access our comprehensive discount portal, Reward Gateway, boasting over 500 incredible deals to help you save significantly.\n, • Family-Friendly Policies: Take advantage of enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave provisions.\n, • Employee Assistance Programme: Prioritize your wellbeing with access to counselling, practical information, and digital resources.\n, • Occupational Health: We're committed to promoting and maintaining the highest degree of physical, mental, and social well-being for our Stellantis &You UK employees.\n, • Personal Accident Insurance: Enjoy worldwide personal accident cover as part of our employee benefits package.\n, • Training Opportunities: Access a range of training initiatives and e-learning resources to support your professional development.\n, • Shared Incentive Plan: Seize the opportunity to invest in the Stellantis Group through our shared incentive plan.\n, • Health Cash Plan: Our insurance policy allows members to claim a percentage of their daily health expenses, ensuring comprehensive health coverage.\n, • Access to our Technician Upskill Programme\n, • Toolbox Insurance\n, • Paid sick leave upon completion of Probationary period.\n\n Vehicle Technician Role Overview: \n This is a great opportunity for you to become a key member of our workshop team. \n An exciting new opportunity has come up here at Preston as we’re on the lookout for a Vehicle Technician to join our dynamic team. \n As a Vehicle Technician you will service and repair vehicles including performing basic diagnostics. We believe in developing YOU, providing a supportive and engaging place to work and offering training opportunities that keep you up to date with all the latest technologies to progress your career with us \n A Vehicle Technician will also: \n\n • Ensure Quality and a first time fix to delight our customers every time.\n, • Complete video vehicle health checks to highlight any issues & sell-up opportunities.\n, • Communicate with workshop supervision regarding work progress.\n, • Develop your skills & knowledge via regular training.\n, • Maintain a clean & safe work bay.\n\n Let’s Work together: \n We are looking for a vehicle technician, service technician, auto-mechanic or mechanic. \n It would be a big plus if you have experience on Stellantis brand products (like Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Jeep, Fiat, Abarth, Alfa Romeo). If you don’t have the experience but have a strong interest to learn, we are still interested to speak with you! \n\n • At a minimum, you will need an NVQ in Motor Vehicle Technology through IMI or City & Guilds Level 2.\n, • If you have the qualifications but have no work experience yet please do get in touch – we have opportunities available.\n\n Stellantis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or gender identity. Stellantis are also accredited with the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) Gold Award, that recognises organisations that pledge, demonstrate or advocate support to the armed forces community. Please contact our recruitment team if you would like to discuss anything further or if you require any form of reasonable adjustments for any part of the recruitment process.

Note: Partly is headquartered in the UK, with a Product and Engineering base in Christchurch, and an early presence in San Francisco. If you are not based in London, we will fly you to our London office for 1 week per quarter for our “Season Openers” (we pay for your travel and accommodation). Partly's mission is to connect the world's parts and we're doing that by building the first global platform for replacement parts, starting with auto parts. Our big vision is to accelerate the world toward a sustainable future where anyone can fix anything. Founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers, we utilise cutting-edge technology to solve challenging but exciting problems that make a huge impact in a $1.9 trillion industry. We've more than tripled our team over the last 12 months and expect to double in size again over the coming 12 months. We're a global team spanning both Europe and Australasia. We provide a scalable digital infrastructure solution to some of the world's largest businesses and the most exciting startups. Partly's solutions are integrated across hundreds of companies globally, providing the backbone for cataloguing and managing parts online. Our investors in Blackbird Ventures (Canva, CultureAmp etc.), Square Peg, Octopus Ventures, Icehouse, Peter Beck (Rocket Lab), Akshay Kothari (Notion Co-Founder) and Dylan Field (Figma Co-Founder). We're continuing to build a world-class team and ensuring Partly is a place where people can do the best work of their lives. We're proud of the culture we've built at Partly, and our _ are lived throughout every experience. Strategic Account Manager The Strategic Account Manager owns post-sale success for parts suppliers on the Partly Network and reports directly to the GM of Europe. This role is responsible for ensuring suppliers achieve measurable commercial and operational value from Partly’s infrastructure. It sits at the intersection of supplier relationships, product delivery, and engineering execution, and requires deep ownership of supplier issues in a fast-moving, evolving product environment. Own strategic supplier relationships Develop trusted, long-term partnerships with parts suppliers, acting as the primary post-sale owner and point of accountability. Ensure strong adoption, retention, and long-term value realisation from Partly. Own supplier issues end-to-end Take full ownership of supplier issues from initial report through root cause analysis, resolution, and follow-up. Work closely with product and engineering teams to drive issues to ground rather than simply escalating them. Translate supplier problems into product execution Convert supplier pain points and operational challenges into clear, actionable product requirements. Produce written problem statements, reproduction steps, and expected outcomes to enable fast, effective execution by engineering. Lead onboarding and ongoing success Own the end-to-end post-sale journey including onboarding, implementation coordination, and ongoing success management. Ensure suppliers are set up to operate successfully on Partly infrastructure from day one. Drive measurable business outcomes Develop a deep understanding of each supplier’s KPIs, revenue drivers, and operational constraints. Through regular reviews, identify and execute opportunities where Partly can unlock incremental value, efficiency, or growth. Operate with urgency in an evolving environment Work effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where product capabilities and processes are still developing. Maintain momentum, prioritise effectively, and drive progress despite incomplete information. Build scalable success foundations Design and evolve lightweight processes, tooling, and documentation that allow supplier success to scale without compromising accountability or responsiveness. Senior stakeholder management Comfortable working with senior leaders at complex organisations. Able to manage expectations, navigate ambiguity, and maintain trust during periods of change or product instability. Strong communicator across technical and commercial audiences Able to engage credibly with engineers while clearly articulating technical issues and solutions in commercial terms to supplier stakeholders. Experience working with technical or infrastructure products Comfortable operating close to technical systems and workflows. Able to understand platform behaviour, diagnose issues, and validate solutions in collaboration with engineering teams. Strong prioritisation and ownership mindset Demonstrates clear ownership, bias to action, and sound judgment. Able to balance supplier advocacy with internal priorities and drive alignment across teams. Commercial and operational acumen Understands how supplier businesses operate and how technology impacts revenue, cost, and efficiency. Able to articulate ROI and map Partly’s infrastructure to supplier objectives. Experience in the automotive aftermarket, parts distribution, or supply-chain ecosystems. Familiarity with cataloguing, fitment, or global parts standards is advantageous. High trust, low process and no bureaucracy. We hire exceptional people whose judgment we trust. This means we proactively remove any process or rules that slow us down (for example, our expense policy is simply the “red face test”). Competitive base salary + equity. We offer competitive salaries and generous equity options for all full-time employees, ensuring everyone shares in the financial upside when we win. Flexible working hours. Choose when to work based on what time you’re most effective (no mandatory or set hours). We combine flexibility with an office-first approach (in cities where we have critical mass, i.e. London, Christchurch, Auckland). Focus Days. Two days per week, with zero meetings, dedicated solely to uninterrupted deep work Take time when you need it. We don’t ask questions or care if people have a negative leave balance. We work extremely hard and trust our team to take the time they need to recharge. Learn from the best. Whether it’s during a ‘Lunch n Learn’ or hearing from a unicorn CEO at a Fireside chat, you’ll have the opportunity to constantly learn from the world’s best. Quarterly season openers across the UK and EU. Connect regularly at the nearest centralised location for a week of collaboration, big-picture planning and team events. Annual global offsite in New Zealand. Travel with the rest of the UK and EU team as we gather and connect for 1-2 weeks at our product and engineering hub in Christchurch. Team connection. Monthly team lunches, celebrating our wins, happy hours and more! Parental leave and flexible return to work. Do what works for you. Primary carers can return with 4-day weeks (on 100% pay for the first 12 weeks). Secondary carers get 10 days full pay. Payroll Giving: We encourage generous giving and donate to the high-impact charities you support CycleSaver: UK employees can now save up to 47% on Lime, Forest, Beryl, or Santander cycle subscriptions through CycleSaver, enjoying the health benefits of cycling to work with flexible, hassle-free monthly plans instead of bike ownership.

About StarComplianceStarCompliance is on a mission to make compliance simple and easy. Trusted globally by enterprise financial institutions, the user-friendly STAR platform empowers organizations to achieve regulatory compliance while safeguarding their integrity and business reputations. Through a customizable, 360-degree view of employee activity, the STAR software enables firms to automate the detection and resolution of potential areas of conflict while streamlining daily workflows and increasing efficiency. Location: Candidates MUST be UK based and have right to work. We are seeking a highly skilled and pragmatic Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help lead our evolution from legacy single-tenant monoliths to modern, scalable, multi-tenant microservices. This is a pivotal role for our business, enabling faster delivery, improved reliability, and real scalability across our SaaS portfolio. While we’ve got a solid handle on infrastructure monitoring, we’re still in the early innings when it comes to application-level observability, autoscaling, and progressive delivery strategies (e.g., canary releases, blue/green deployments). That’s where you come in. You’ll work closely with Infrastructure, Architecture, Engineering, and Support teams to design, build, and evangelize the next generation of SRE practices and tools that ensure uptime, resiliency, and customer trust. • Champion Reliability by Design: Collaborate with architects and engineers to build resilient, fault-tolerant systems across our evolving cloud-native stack., • Observability Overhaul: Lead the charge on full-stack observability, leveraging modern APM tooling, meaningful SLOs/SLIs, and actionable alerts., • Scaling Systems: Develop and implement auto-scaling strategies, load testing plans, and capacity forecasting for multi-tenant environments., • Progressive Delivery: Help implement and automate deployment strategies such as canary releases, feature flags, and blue/green rollouts., • Incident Response: Create and refine on-call processes, incident response playbooks, and blameless post-mortem routines., • Monitoring & Tooling: Own and evolve our monitoring infrastructure, integrating metrics, logs, and traces into a cohesive ecosystem., • Developer Empowerment: Build reusable templates, dashboards, and platform tooling to empower dev teams to “shift left” on reliability., • Cross-functional Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with Infrastructure, Architecture, Support, and Engineering teams to drive shared accountability for uptime and performance., • 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Production Engineering roles, ideally within a SaaS or cloud-native environment., • Deep experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure or AWS), and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g. Terraform)., • Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps is strongly preferred, as our CI/CD and project workflows are fully built around it., • Proficiency with observability tools such as New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, or similar., • Strong understanding of software deployment strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and release engineering., • Ability to code in at least one modern scripting or systems language (e.g., Python,PowerShell, Go, Bash)., • Experience operating multi-tenant environments with an emphasis on security, performance, and cost optimization., • Excellent communicator who thrives in cross-functional settings and can influence engineering culture around reliability., • Experience in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare)., • Background with service mesh architectures, distributed tracing, and gRPC/GraphQL., • Familiarity with incident management platforms (e.g., PagerDuty, OpsGenie)., • Contributions to open-source SRE tooling or frameworks. 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This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. StarCompliance makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, please request a copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.