Jamie McGrath
Shrewsbury
Summary
Experienced Valeter and Driver with a strong background in vehicle maintenance and detailing, including the application of Ceramic coatings, clay barring, and Interior Deep Cleans. Ability to manage logistics, stock management, and equipment while ensuring vehicles are fuelled and in serviceable condition. Skilled in using trade plates for vehicle transportation and ensuring exceptional customer service. Good at problem solving and maintaining clean workspaces.
Overview
1
1
Certification
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Valeter / Driver
BMW Halliwell Jones-Wilmslow
06.2023 - 11.2024
- Detailed cleaning of interior and exterior
- Applying gardex ceramic coating
- Clay baring
- Wetvac of fabric seats and floor mats
- Engine-bay cleaning
- Removal of imbedded sand and stains
- Use of trade plates on a variety of vehicles to pick up and deliver vehicles to various sites and locations.
- Maintaining work spaces and car parks
- Ensuring company cars are fuelled and are in serviceable condition
- Checking in vehicles of transporters and assessing any damage
- Communicating with sales and logistics staff to ensure cars are prepped and delivered on time
- Keeping stock and ordering tools and products
Vehicle Valeter
Sk Motor Company-Stockport
05.2021 - 06.2023
- I regularly serviced, inspected, repaired and valeted a range of vehicles, from small, cheap city cars to more expensive SUVs and vans.
- Although these are my main tasks i also frequently assist customers with questions and requests such as test drives.
- Aswell as this i have used trade plates to collect cars from auction locations from around the country such Birmingham, Bristol and Newcastle aswell as delivering vehicles to customers and workshops.
Covid-19 Tester
Sodexo-Stockport
05.2021 - 07.2021
- Walking customers through covid tests.
- Booking customers onto site
- Booking customers out of site
- Cleaning test bays after customer use
- Cleaning back of house work force areas.
- Communicating with other colleagues on Radios
Production Operative
Trolex-Stockport
03.2021 - 07.2021
- At trolex i Manufactured Electronic Safety Equipment mainly used in mines, quarys and some building sites around the world.
- I worked in the 'Feeder Cell' of trolex meanining i mainly dealt with and built the bare PCBs to be programmed and built into housings in other cells.
- My main dutys here were
- Soldering components onto PCBs
- Picking components for PCBs
- Washing, Drying and Laquering PCBs
- Stocking build kits for products
- Managing Paperwork, Email and Build Guides.
Labouer
Julious Building-Levenshulme
09.2020 - 11.2020
- As a tempery labour on a house to flat conversion my jobs consisted of
- Shop runs
- Demolishing walls and ceilings
- Ripping up carpet
- Painting walls
- Removing plasterboard
- Filling skips
- Maintaining equiptment and charging batteries
- Moving materials and tools for different jobs
- Cleaning up rooms on site
- Maintaining work vehicles
- Making teas and coffees
- Lifting and cutting wooden joists
- Lifting and cutting steel beams
- Fitting and cutting insulation.
Mover
Alan Frankland Removals-Duckinfield
08.2020 - 11.2020
- At Alan Frankland Removals, my job was to work alongside a small team of people to carefully and Efficiently move customers belongings from place to place.
- These items could range from beds and sofas to full house removals.
Vehicle Mechanic
JB Pipes Motor Engineers-Hazel Grove
08.2019 - 01.2020
- In my time here i have been trained to complete mechanical work on vehcles aswell as properly clean and diagnose vehicles.
- My main dutys where..
- Carrying out full, interim and small services
- Fully valet customer and sales cars inside and out
- Use scanning tools to quickly diagnose mechanical issues
- Communicating with customers
- Changing tyres and wheels
- Scrap preparation
- Stock checking
- Workshop/grounds organisation
- Assisting with larger jobs such as head gasket and timing jobs.
- Aswell as assisting or independantly carrying out day to day tasks as simple as going to the shops for colleagues or more complex like attending a break down or recovery.
Mechanic WORK EXPERIENCE
J.B. Pipes-Hazel Grove
07.2018
- At JB Pipes (1 week work placement)
- My duties where..
- Making Tea and Coffee
- Attending to workers needs (fetching tools and helping under the bonnet)
- Cleaning cars (inside and out)
- Painting damaged body panels
- Helping with basic MOT checks
- Topping cars up with fluids
- Logging work done on tracking system.
Education
GCSEs - Maths, English, Science, Resistant Materials, Music
Hazel Grove High School
StockportSkills
- Hand Tools
- Driving
- Time management
- Powerpoint
- Detailing
- Power tools
- Parts ordering
- Equipment maintenance
- Logistics coordination
- Engine bay cleaning
- Clay barring
- Wetvac operation
- Trade plate usage
- Stock management
- Problem resolution
- Vehicle maintenance
- Detailed vehicle checks
Certification
Driving Licence
Timeline
Valeter / Driver
BMW Halliwell Jones-Wilmslow
06.2023 - 11.2024
Vehicle Valeter
Sk Motor Company-Stockport
05.2021 - 06.2023
Covid-19 Tester
Sodexo-Stockport
05.2021 - 07.2021
Production Operative
Trolex-Stockport
03.2021 - 07.2021
Labouer
Julious Building-Levenshulme
09.2020 - 11.2020
Mover
Alan Frankland Removals-Duckinfield
08.2020 - 11.2020
Vehicle Mechanic
JB Pipes Motor Engineers-Hazel Grove
08.2019 - 01.2020
Mechanic WORK EXPERIENCE
J.B. Pipes-Hazel Grove
07.2018
GCSEs - Maths, English, Science, Resistant Materials, Music
Hazel Grove High School