Matthew Woodhouse

Senior Vehicle Installation Fitter and Auto Electrician with extensive experience modifying fleet vehicles, specialising in auto-electrical installations and fitting items such as towbars and deadlocks ensuring they match the customers' specifications. Skilled in overseeing workshop operations, training staff and ensuring all vehicles meet high quality standards on schedule.

Key Skills Include:

• Using a wide range of skills gained through experience
• Advanced auto-electrical installations to a variety of vehicles, both commercial and non-commercial
• Training of new staff
• Responsible for vehicle sign off
• Installed new automotive electrical equipment to increase vehicle efficiency

Specialising in off-site van conversions, installations and bespoke modifications travelling nationwide. Experienced in complex auto-electrical installations, managing jobs independently and ensuring top quality workmanship, and training junior engineers. Charged with meeting new customers and ensuring that the work completed was to the best possible quality.

Other roles included:

• Customer facing, greeting customers and creating a good impression of the company
• Stock Control
• Responsible for purchasing equipment and consumables
• Training of new staff and quality control
• Completed electrical inspection reports to enable fault diagnosis and repair
• Resolved complicated circuit malfunctions, increasing vehicle safety and reliability

Specialising in van ply-lining, OEM towbar installation and advanced electrical installations. Skilled off-site vehicle modifications, and delivering high quality workmanship and efficient, timely service.

Key skills included:

• Advanced electrical skills to OEM specification for main dealers
• Responsible for looking after new customers

Supervising operations in the workshop, ensuring completed vehicles are to a high standard, training staff, maintaining a safe workspace and being responsible for vehicle sign off and handover.

Key skills included:

• Picking, packing and dispatch of parts/accessories
• Responsible for overseeing health and safety in the workshop, ensuring all jobs conformed to the correct health and safety protocols
• Training of new staff, ensuring the companies high standards were met

Working as part of a team on heavy plant machinery ranging from excavators to screens. Diagnosing equipment to very tight schedules and repairing to high quality standards to ensure it survived the harsh quarry environment. Whilst working at Breedon, I completed my Heavy Vehicle Technical Standards Level 1 & 2.

Key skills included:

• Working to very strict safety requirements in a dangerous environment.
• Ensuring all work completed was correctly documented and signed off
• Ensuring all work completed met OEM standards
• Tasked with using own initative to diagnose and repair complex issues