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Heavy Diesel Mechanic Or Auto Electrician Vacancy's in Welshpool, Perth Exciting opportunity for a motivated & hands on Heavy Diesel Mechanic or Auto Electrician Highly competitive remuneration package Vibrant team & supportive leadership team WA Hino, Fiat Professional Welshpool and Yutong Bus Centre WA are Western Australia’s premier dealerships for New Hino Trucks, Fiat Commercial Vans and Yutong Buses and Coaches. We also offer finance as well as a service and parts departments which caters to all three brands. WA Hino is your one-stop-shop for all your trucking needs. WA Hino have an exciting full time opportunities for motivated, career focused and hands on Heavy Diesel Mechanics and Auto Electricians to join our team of professionals at our Welshpool Dealership Reporting to the Service Manager, you will be a self-motivated leader continuously focused on maximising sales and profitability. You will be instrumental in assisting the team to achieve financial, customer, manufacturer and dealership targets. Working as part of a team, you will be an advocate for continuous improvement, not only for yourself but for the entire workshop, and create a positive, inclusive working environment with exceptional experiences for all of customers (Hino, Fiat and Yutong) to create and promote loyalty, retention and satisfaction. Duties and Responsibilities: Performing all internal and external electrical installations, services and repairs for dealership and customer vehicles Strong diagnostic ability Carrying out warranty work Ensure vehicles are clean before they are returned to the customer Maintain a safe working environment Road test vehicles if required Maintain a sounds knowledge of all Dealership products and services Skills and Experience: Exceptional Time Management skills Excellent interpersonal and communication skills Demonstrated experience as an Automotive Electrician Exception attention to detail Ability to work effectively in a team environment Previous experience working with Japanese makes would be advantageous. On offer is: The opportunity to develop your career Factory backed training A supportive management team A professional working environment A long term career opportunity Are you ready to join the very best in the industry and take your career to the next level? Email your cover letter and resume to dmedhurst@wahino.com.au Please note: Eagers Automotive Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Women are Encouraged to Apply. All shortlisted applicants will be required to undertake a pre-employment checks including police and medical checks.

We settled in Canning Vale which is exactly where we wanted so we were happy. Rental prices are still dropping too. Drag Racing is at Perth Motorplex which is about 30 mins drive south from Canning Vale near Kiwana.

Hi all, and to all the new people who have joined PP since I was last on, several months ago! Well, its now been 6 months and a lot has happened, although at a much slower pace than the first two weeks. As far as I go, I changed jobs as I just could not get on with the owner of the Auto Masters and his mentality of ripping people off. Ironically, the garage I was put in touch with through a mutual friend actually called me up and offered me a job as they had to sack a member of staff for stealing etc. Hindsight, on their part! I am settled and happy, although cold at the moment and just come down with a cold. One of our neighbours is a Drag Racer, so I help with their drag car, which gets me out every Wednesday evening and about 10 weekends a year between Oct - Apr. Great fun doing 6.5 second 1/4 runs My wife has also settled in and still is happy we have moved. But she does miss her Nan and Granddad. Shes made friends and now helps out at the school at lunch times. Shes now looking for a job so we can get a mortgage and to get her out of the house now Oliver is in Kindie 2/3 days a week. Jack (eldest) is gald we moved, although he misses his friends back in the UK. Hes quiet and not entirely sure if hes actually made friends here. Hes the one we struggle with. Has had the off temper tantrum and decided he was going back to the UK. Right up until I booked the flights and got to the submit payment screen.... Jack has now also started a paper round and gets apx $40-$50 a week! Sophie (middle) has made loads of friends, does dance etc and is enjoying life as much as she can. Oliver (4 next week) Still remembers the UK and our leaving party and occasionally askes to go back so he can see his kindie teacher. But other than that, hes really happy and loves all the space here. Its got cold here now (7c at night and as low as 20c in the day) which sounds warm, but when its been 40c+ during the day and you have no heating. So we went out and bought a gas heater which works well. Oh and our shipping, which had some damage, paid out £2,000 or so in damages which paid for a huge new bed for us. We bought the wife a nice new car and I bought her the rego DEBBIE5 which was a steal at $510. Hopefully soon it will warm up again and we can spend more time outside.

Vivid started off great, but ive found it slow of late on some websites. But when left with no ports, its better thank nothing.

Yes include it.

I went online the other day and registered for Mix 94.5 Crazy Fast Cash. I forgot all about it but listened every day on the way home from work. Fridays they Jackpot. Got a call at 11am saying I was short listed, 5pm they called my name out, I won! $1,500! result. HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY Weekend!

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We want to go to the CBD but no idea where to park, especially with the kids.

Nope, Eddie from John Huges

The guy I spoke to said that my wages are over x amount so I wont need a deposit, but I think I will put one down to get the costs down. $45000 over 7 years was $200 a week, which is more than I want to borrow. So waiting to hear what they have thats cheaper and slightly used.

I found, as many others have that its hard to get a job when not in Aus, but when you are here there is plenty of jobs out. Just get your CV / resume out to as many people as you can when you get here.

Had a chat with a guy from Ford who says as we are on PR visa, we can get one right away. No need to work for 6 months first, just need a contract, Visa and a passport.

We used Doree Bonner / Grace. Cheapest and helpful, although did start to rush and pack badly so currently having an insurance claim with them for damaged items. Crown Relocations are right behind my work here in Perth now and were a close second when we looked.

Hire cars are open at that time as ive done it twice. Although as said above, get taxi to where you are staying, then the next day get taxi to Bayswater. Rental will be at least 40% cheaper but you dont get stung for insurance fees they hard sell you when you pick up the car. We hired a new Rav 4 for 10 days, two drivers and no excess for $560 or something.

Or container docked on Saturday, delivered to our house on the Tuesday after.

We are looking at buying a new car. But having only been here for two months and only been working for a few weeks. Does anyone know the requirements for dealers for credit? None of the like to open on Saturday afternoons or Sundays....

We managed to do all of ours in a week excluding the driving licence. Things we did are here. Medicare etc takes a while to do, and if you do it while in your temp rental can leave to a few issues as you will need to show your new address etc when you move. Which is exactly what we did. A hire car from Bayswater for 10 days should be around £330, although we bought a car two days in so had two cars for 8 days, as you don't get any money back for dropping it back early. The jobs, you will find it hard to find one from the UK, but once you are here its a lot easier, just make sure you cover letter and Resume are up to date and then go on the job sites when you get here. Do you have kids? putting them in school can be a pain unless you have a rental agreement in place in their catchment area. We pre-warned the school and took all the paperwork in ready before we got the agreement, then just took that in. Although we have just spend $300 on stationary for our eldest and still need to buy his uniform etc. All in is about $1,000. If you do not have Bank Accounts yet, it takes about a week for cards to come through, so make sure you have lots of cash ready. You can open up a Westpac account from the UK now, then you can put money in, then when you arrive show your ID and hopefully pick up your cards from the branch.

I'd fly with Etihad again if the choice was £1000 more for Emirates or £100 extra and another stop.

I found it hard to get any company to even look at you when you are not in the country which was very worrying for us as it was our only income. Once here there are loads of websites like seek.com.au indeed.com.au jobfinder.com.au and a couple of agencies you can go through from the UK.

We flew out with them in November. I would not say they were bad, but we found them to not be as good as we hoped. We preferred Emirates for service. Etihad were cheaper. On Emirates, we were being offered drinks all the time. On Etihad, we struggled to flag down the staff to get some water. The food was also an issue and they appeared to run out of the meals we wanted which left our kids not eating. They have 'Nannies' which the website made a big deal of, but it was no different to any other flight, if not less so than we had on Emirates previously. I wouldn't say I wouldn't fly with them again, but I would certainly pay a little extra to fly with Emirates. But that would only be a small amount.

Happy New Year to you too and I hope everyone's dreams come true in 2015 like mine has.

As it worked out, the guy who I wanted the job with gave me the job. I feel like the world is criticising me for my actions, so here's what happened. Wednesday apply for the perfect job, Thursday get a call from him to meet up with me that day, which I do. Its decided he will call me the following week as hes on holiday. Seems really keen and we get on really well. Monday, another garage calls who was given my name from a friend. I agree to meet him on Tuesday. He tells me how his wife is 9 month pregnant and his manager is on his 5 final warning. Offers me the job there and then. The garage has a bad rep, looks dirty and small. I tell him that im waiting on a call. Thursdays meeting is brought forward to that day so I can hurry things up. I meet with the first guy again who is really keen, shows me the computer systems etc and discuss money, but again says he will call me Wednesday night / Thursday Morning. Thursday morning comes and tells me he took on an Aussie instead. Second guy and the small bad garage then tells me hes taken someone else on. I personally believe that he will get rid of that person within three months, once his wife has her baby. I call the garage I want to work for up and tell him that things have changed and I will do a better job than the Aussie. It then that he tells me that he hadn't actually taken him on and was still talking to him. Monday comes, and he calls me to come in to look at all the paper work, gives me my job description and takes my measurements for uniform. I didn't actually want to work for the small dirty bad rep garage so wasn't to bothered. But when the other garage said no after saying yes twice I got a little annoyed / upset. To be truthful, I have only ever had one interview so not sure on protocol but given I had two offered within a week of asking, and I had only applied for one of those jobs. It all worked out well in the end as I got the job I wanted for the money I wanted (well, always helps if its more).

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Well we landed 4 weeks ago this afternoon. The job side of it sorted itself out. The guy who I wanted to work for who was the guy who took on an Aussie decided he like my attitude and gave me the job yesterday. Sorted out our driving licences etc. So now all settled in with everything sorted out. Now just need to sort out what we are doing for Christmas.

We have no idea what we are doing yet! Its our first xmas here. Wife and kids want to go down the beach in the morning. I think we are then going to have traditional xmas lunch late afternoon.