Fleet Manager

Role Overview

Our Fleet Manager is at the heart of all we do, responsible for optimising vehicle and mobile plant availability across our sites in Nottingham and Leicester to ensure we can efficiently deliver our material processing targets and delight our customers.

Working in collaboration with a small multi-skilled team, this is a vital role, maximising vehicle availability and legislative compliance within a 24/7 operation. We are looking for someone ideally from the recycling industry with a demonstrable record of delivering improvements across a fleet of around 85 vehicles including HGV, Skip lorries, RoRos, Front End loading shovels, forklift trucks, grabs, 360 handlers and company cars. Within this role you will also be responsible for the provision, maintenance and repair of our skips, recycling containers and

You will be an expert in practical problem solving, balancing the demands of operational need against pre-planned servicing, repairs and replacement, fuel optimisation and reliability improvements.

You will lead, motivate and manage a team of multi-skilled fleet administrators and maintenance engineers, supported by 3rd party contractors as appropriate, driving a continuous improvement culture within the fleet team.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that you and your team only work safely, implementing and maintaining 5S disciplines across our sites
• Develop and execute a fleet strategy to optimise fleet availability including fleet composition, procurement, telematics, people and suppliers
• Complying with all appropriate O Licence, Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) legislation and policies and using a red-tag process as appropriate where vehicles or equipment is defective
• Lead, motivate and develop a high-performing fleet team that delivers against agreed objectives, best practice and continuous improvement.
• Managing 3rd party contractors, ensuring compliance with site induction, permit to work and delivery against agreed work plans
• Devising and managing the Fleet Budget, capex and monthly spend in line with agreed parameters (circa 85 vehicles with a £2.5m annual spend)
• Drafting Risk Assessments / Method Statements / Safe Working procedures with appropriate training and competency validation
• Optimising Pre-Planned Preventative Maintenance, refurbishment and replacement of fleet equipment as appropriate
• Deliver Reliability Centred Maintenance strategy derived from OEM recommendations, in-service failure diagnosis and PPM frequency and continuously review asset performance to eliminate/reduce mechanical or electrical failures
• Managing the procurement of all fleet categories ensuring minimum stock levels for identified critical items to avoid fleet downtime, financial write-downs, consignment stock and rebate opportunities to minimise maintenance spend whilst not reducing quality or reliability
• Managing statutory vehicle inspections (MOT) and ensuring any non-conformances and opportunities for improvement are addressed promptly.
• Optimise Fleet availability, liaising with OEMs and 3rd party contractors to agree repairs/costs / actions for lease and owned equipment and managing the asset replacement schedules
• Develop energy efficiency procurement and plant modification plans to reduce energy consumption