Tyre Fitter CV Examples & Writing Guide

"Tyre fitter" is the usual UK title, and adverts also say tyre technician, fast-fit technician, mobile tyre fitter or commercial tyre fitter. In the US the same job is a tire technician, with US spelling. This sample is for a fitter with about nine years across a national fast-fit chain, an independent tyre and service centre and a commercial tyre depot. The name and employers are invented.

Tyre centres hire fast and lose people fast, so the manager is reading for whether you can hold a bay without supervision and without hurting yourself.

• Volume. Tyres per day or per week, and bay time on a set of four. A centre that does 300 tyres a week needs to know you have worked at that pace.
• What you can handle beyond the basics. TPMS relearns, run-flats, staggered fitments, 20 and 22 inch wheels, commercial tyres. Basic fit-and-balance is what everyone claims.
• Safety. Inflating tyres and servicing wheels can cause serious injuries, and HSE guidance covers inflation cages and split-rim wheels. State your incident record and your inflation cage training.
• Comebacks. Vibration complaints and loose wheels are what cost the centre money and reputation. A comeback percentage on your CV is unusual and it lands well.
• What else you can check or sell. Alignments, brakes, exhausts, batteries. A tyre fitter who inspects properly grows the invoice, and managers pay for that.

“Tell me your tyre count per day and whether you can do a TPMS relearn without calling anyone over. And put your safety record on there. A wheel coming off in a customer's driveway is the thing that keeps me awake.”

Two or three lines, with a volume figure in the first sentence. Use a personal statement if you have bay time, a career objective if you are new.

"Tyre fitter job description for CV" is one of the few phrases people actually search for this job. Here is that job description turned into lines a manager can use. Every one carries a number.

Ten to fourteen lines. Equipment and technical procedures first, physical and shift realities last.

Equipment and procedures:

• Tyre changers by brand (Hunter, Corghi, Hofmann, Sice) and whether you work leverless machines
• Balancers, including road force matching, and typical values you hold
• TPMS: sensor programming, relearn types (automatic, OBD, manual), and the tool you use (Autel, ATEQ, Bartec)
• Run-flat, low-profile, staggered and directional fitments
• Wheel torque settings, calibrated torque wrenches and re-torque checks
• Puncture repair standards: combination repair from the inside, the minor repair area, when to refuse a repair
• Nitrogen inflation, valves, valve extensions and wheel weights (clip-on and adhesive)
• Commercial: 17.5 and 22.5 inch truck tyres, twin matching, remould and retread handling, inflation cage, the 1 mm legal tread minimum for HGVs
• Alignment rigs and the wear patterns that tell you the vehicle needs one
• Basic brake, suspension and steering checks

The rest of the job:

• Wheel and inflation safety, plus jack, axle stand and vehicle lift discipline
• Point-of-sale, job card and online booking systems used in tyre retail
• Lifting 30 kg repeatedly and standing a full shift, including cold mornings in an open bay
• Saturday and bank holiday availability, which is peak in tyre retail
• A full UK driving licence, needed for road tests and mobile or breakdown work
• A second language, which is genuinely useful on a busy customer counter

No licence is needed for this job in the UK. What exists is industry training and accreditation and employer safety training, and both carry weight.

• Tyre fitting qualifications: a Level 2 tyre or fast-fit qualification through a college, an apprenticeship or an industry training provider. National chains run their own structured training too. Name the course, the provider and the year.
• Commercial tyre accreditation: commercial and roadside roles often ask for accreditation through the industry scheme run by the National Tyre Distributors Association (NTDA). List the scheme and your renewal date, because shops and fleet customers check.
• Employer safety training on tyre inflation and wheel servicing, including inflation cages and split-rim or multi-piece wheels. HSE guidance expects this to be trained and supervised, so give the year it was last refreshed.
• TPMS and alignment training from equipment makers, and a Level 2 or Level 3 light vehicle qualification if you want to move towards general service work. They lift your pay band.
• A full UK driving licence with a clean record. Mobile and breakdown roles need van driving, and some employers' insurers set age or points limits; heavier service vehicles may need a C1 licence.
• If you are trained on a specific alignment system or hold training from an equipment maker, name the system and the year.

This is one of the easiest trades to enter and one of the fastest ways into the motor trade. Centres train on the machine; what they cannot train quickly is turning up, working in the cold and not cutting corners on torque.

1. 1Put "Tyre Fitter" or the advert's exact title under your name, not "Student" or your old job.
2. 2Write a two-line career objective covering lifting, standing, Saturday availability and a clean licence.
3. 3Pull the physical, mechanical and customer parts out of any job you have had: warehouse, farm, landscaping, construction, fast food. Give each a number.
4. 4Say what tools you have already used: impact gun, torque wrench, trolley jack, axle stands, hydraulic press, hand tools.
5. 5If you have worked on your own or a family car, write it as a short project line. Changing your own brakes and tyres is a legitimate line for an entry-level tyre job.
6. 6Say that you are ready to start tyre fitting training straight away. It shows you know the job is learned properly, not picked up.
7. 7One page, plain layout, no photo. Print a copy and take it into the centre on a weekday morning.

• One page for most fitters, two at most. This CV gets read on a service counter in about twenty seconds.
• Order: header with target title, personal statement or career objective, qualifications, skills and equipment, experience, education. Qualifications go high, because training and accreditation are screening questions.
• Single column, plain text, no photo, no date of birth, no icons. Large fast-fit chains use applicant tracking systems, and centres print CVs in black and white.
• Give month and year for each job. Seasonal peaks and centre closures are normal here, so short spells are not a problem if you label them.
• Add an availability line: Saturdays, bank holiday weekends and the weeks before Christmas are when tyre centres need people most.
• PDF unless the application asks otherwise. Name it Firstname-Lastname-Tyre-Fitter-CV.pdf.
• If you are applying in the US, use "tire technician" and "resume", and expect US shops to ask about Tire Industry Association (TIA) certification instead of UK training. Everything else on this page still holds.

Words worth mirroring from the advert when they apply: tyre fitting, balancing, road force, TPMS, sensor relearn, run-flat, puncture repair, BS AU 159, torque settings, wheel weights, alignment, tracking, suspension, brakes, exhausts, commercial tyres, twin matching, inflation cage, mobile tyre fitting, breakdown call-outs, point of sale, upselling, Saturday availability.