Automotive Recruitment Agency UK
Flame Recruitment connects automotive professionals with permanent opportunities across the UK. We support dealerships, independent garages, bodyshops and commercial vehicle businesses, helping employers explain what they need and candidates understand what a role really offers.
UK-wide recruitment, with local requirements
We work with clients throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Our candidate database supports recruitment conversations across the UK, while each search is shaped by the role, location, travel distance and working pattern. We discuss relevant experience and current availability rather than assuming that every candidate can travel or relocate.
From London and the South East to the South West, East of England, Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, North West and North East, tell us where you need to hire or want to work. Use the jobs map for advertised opportunities, or contact our team about a regional search. Listed vacancies change and may not cover every area at a given time.
Recruitment built around the work
A job title is only the starting point. A technician vacancy may focus on servicing, complex diagnostics or workshop support. A service advisor role may combine bookings, customer updates, estimates and invoicing. We consider responsibilities alongside qualifications, working hours, location and the full package so both sides can have an informed conversation.
For employers: build a clear hiring brief
Tell us the job title, work location, essential skills and experience, basic salary, bonus arrangements and contracted hours. Include the Saturday rota, overtime or call-out expectations, reporting line and likely start date. Explain which qualifications are essential and which brand or system knowledge can be developed through training.
Practical details help candidates assess the opportunity: workshop equipment, the mix of work, team support, training, progression and benefits. For customer-facing roles, describe booking volumes, customer responsibilities and performance measures. Discuss your vacancy with Flame or read our hiring advice for dealerships.
For candidates: compare the whole opportunity
Tell us about your experience, qualifications, preferred role, travel distance and working pattern. Compare guaranteed basic pay separately from bonus, commission and overtime. Ask about the team, equipment, training and how performance is measured before deciding whether an opportunity suits you.
Your search can be confidential. We will speak with you before sharing your details with an employer. Browse current automotive vacancies, explore jobs on the map or use our career and salary tools to prepare your next move.
Specialist automotive roles
Vehicle technician recruitment covers servicing, maintenance and diagnostic roles. Service advisor recruitment focuses on customer-facing aftersales work. Explore car sales executive recruitment for dealership sales, or HGV and commercial vehicle recruitment for commercial workshops and mobile operations.
We also handle vacancies in parts, MOT testing, bodyshops, workshop control and automotive management. Availability changes as roles are filled and new instructions arrive; the current jobs page is the place to check individual requirements and apply.
Start a conversation
Whether you are planning a hire or considering a move, contact Flame Recruitment with the role and location you have in mind. A clear brief helps us focus the next conversation on what matters to you.
Starting or developing an automotive career?
Our automotive careers and training guide explains apprenticeships, how to enrol, example course costs, professional checks and terms such as ADAS, diagnostics and Master Technician.
Find automotive jobs by region
Flame Recruitment supports automotive job searches across the UK. Start with your postcode and a realistic travel radius on our live jobs search, choose the role you want, then press Search Jobs. Alternatively, open the jobs map and tap a marker to see the vacancy and its full details. Use My Location can fill an approximate postcode after you allow location access.
A mileage radius is a starting point, not a journey-time estimate. Check the actual route, start time, parking and Saturday rota before deciding whether a workshop or dealership is within reach. If the right vacancy is not currently advertised, contact us with your preferred towns, role and working pattern.
London, South East and East of England
For vehicle technician and service advisor searches in London, compare the work postcode with the hours you would actually travel. For opportunities across the South East and East of England, include nearby towns you can realistically reach rather than limiting your search to one county. Tell us whether you want an independent workshop, franchised dealership or another automotive setting.
Employers hiring service advisors or technicians should explain the mix of work, team size, customer responsibilities and essential experience. A service advisor brief should distinguish booking and reception duties from estimates, invoicing, warranty work or supervising a team. Our service advisor recruitment guide explains the details to compare.
East Midlands and West Midlands
Flame can discuss service advisor, vehicle technician and HGV recruitment requirements across the Midlands. For candidates, select the role and postcode first, then widen the radius if suitable opportunities are limited. For employers, separate essential qualifications from experience that can be developed with training, and state the guaranteed basic salary separately from bonus and overtime.
A workshop brief should explain whether the role centres on routine servicing, fault diagnosis, MOT testing or commercial vehicle maintenance. Read our vehicle technician guide or HGV technician guide for practical hiring and application information.
North West, North East, Yorkshire and the Humber
For technician, bodyshop and aftersales searches across northern England, define the actual role as well as the location. Bodyshop work may involve panel repair, paint preparation, spraying or estimating; an aftersales management role may cover workshop performance, service reception and parts. These require different experience, so include the duties you perform in your CV or hiring brief.
Commercial vehicle employers should also describe the vehicle types, shift pattern, breakdown or mobile duties and workshop facilities. Candidates can explore advertised roles on the map and open each vacancy for the specific requirements. We do not assume that a similar job title means the same responsibilities.
South West, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
We welcome recruitment enquiries from employers and candidates throughout these regions. For MOT tester, technician and customer-facing aftersales roles, tell us your location, current experience and the travel or relocation arrangements you would consider. Employers should give the site postcode and working hours so that the search reflects practical access to the workplace.
UK-wide service does not mean we have a live vacancy in every town or region at all times. Check the current vacancies for advertised opportunities, or ask Flame about your regional requirements.
Hire automotive staff in your region
Flame Recruitment works with dealerships, independent garages, bodyshops and commercial vehicle businesses across the UK, supported by our candidate database. Send us the role, site postcode, essential skills, salary range and working pattern. We can then discuss a focused search and relevant candidate experience; database size alone does not establish that a suitable person is available.
Learn about Flame and read our linked Google reviews, or use our employer briefing guide to prepare your vacancy.
Sales, aftersales, parts and senior management recruitment
Flame regularly places administrators, advisors, executives, managers and heads of department across the UK automotive industry. Our recruitment covers sales, aftersales, parts and senior management, alongside technical and workshop roles. We work with franchised dealerships, independent automotive dealers and garages, bodyshops, HGV operators and commercial automotive businesses.
A job title is only a starting point. For an administrator, clarify the records, systems and coordination duties. For an advisor or executive, explain the customer responsibilities and commercial targets. For managers and heads of department, set out team size, reporting lines, decision-making authority and the operational or financial measures they will own.
Finding automotive staff or your next role in your region
Whether your search is in London, the South East, the Midlands, northern England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, start with the workplace postcode and realistic travel requirements. Tell us the department, level of responsibility, essential experience, salary structure and hours. We use those details to discuss a focused search; advertised vacancies and candidate availability vary by area.
Candidates can use our live job search to choose a role, postcode and radius, then press Search Jobs. The jobs map lets you explore locations and open individual vacancies. Employers can discuss a regional hiring brief with Flame.