Auto Denter

Role summary

Inspection and body repairs

• Inspect vehicles for dents, scratches, body damage, and structural deformation; assess damage and determine suitable repairs.
• Repair, straighten, reshape, or replace damaged panels using appropriate tools and techniques; remove irreparable panels when needed.
• Align doors, bonnets, boot lids, fenders, bumpers, and other components; address minor authorized chassis or body alignment issues.
• Cut, weld, straighten, and repair metal panels where appropriate; ensure repaired panels have correct shape, alignment, and gaps.
• Repair feasible plastic bumper and body damage, replace clips and supports, and prepare repaired components for painting.

Quality and workshop coordination

• Prepare repaired surfaces for grinding, filling, and painting and coordinate completed work with Auto Painters.
• Check alignment, gaps, surface condition, and component operation; inspect repairs before releasing vehicles to the painting section.
• Report additional or major damage to the supervisor and discuss repair needs, estimated completion time, and parts requirements with workshop colleagues.
• Operate tools safely, inspect equipment before use, maintain tools, and report defective or unsafe equipment.
• Follow HSE procedures, wear appropriate PPE, ensure ventilation during welding or grinding, and follow hot-work fire prevention procedures.
• Protect vehicles, keep the work area clean and organized, and properly store tools and dispose of workshop waste.

Qualifications and experience

• Requires 3–5 years of experience as an Auto Denter or Auto Body Repair Technician and experience in an automotive garage, body shop, fleet workshop, or vehicle repair facility.
• Technical qualification or vocational training in Automotive Body Repair, Auto Denting, Vehicle Repair, or a related trade is preferred.
• Relevant trade certification and welding or specialized-equipment training or certification are advantageous or preferred.
• Experience repairing light vehicles, buses, trucks, or commercial vehicles is advantageous; GCC or Qatar garage experience is preferred.

Required skills

• Requires strong knowledge of vehicle body repair and denting.
• The description begins a further required-skills list but ends after the words 'Strong knowledge of vehicle body repair and denting.'