Area Fleet Maintenance Manager

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Job reference 319052
Area Fleet Maintenance Manager
Competitive salary plus £4,800 car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with serve and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time

2 roles are available.

Area Fleet Maintenance Manager London and South East
Area Fleet Maintenance Manager North West, North Wales and West Midlands

Regular travel is required to sites across each region.

This is a fantastic time to join the Royal Mail Fleet team as we progress on our journey towards net zero, targeting an all-electric delivery fleet by 2035. This is a huge undertaking with over 50,000 vehicles and trailer assets, from buying and selling vehicles, providing maintenance and accident repairs, to managing fuel and supplier contracts there are exciting roles for anyone wishing to pursue a career involving vehicle asset management.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Fleet Maintenance you will:

• Be accountable for running a of Fleet workshops (circa 30 workshops and 8 direct reports)
• Play a critical role in delivering of our Fleet vision to make cultural behavioural change amongst our maintenance teams, ensuring they make commercial decisions on a daily basis and operate efficiently
• Be accountable for compliance to both legal and RM safety policies and meet safety targets.
• Be accountable for delivering maintenance services and for optimising cost performance & forecasting through the use of the resource planning tools and resourcing to workload
• Be responsible for optimising the efficiency of Fleet Workshops to meet or exceed industry standard performance levels.
• Provide effective coaching, engagement, and tenacious communication to support and develop the regional Fleet Workshop teams through the cultural and performance transformation required to exceed customer expectation

About You

• To be eligiable for the role you must hold at least an IMI Level 3 quealification in light or heavy vehicle maintenance and hold a full UK dirving licence
• You will have a proven tracke record of management of a team over multiple sites (or one large site)
• You can demonstrate experince of change management through coaching of teams
• It would be desireable for you to have knowledge of compliance requirements for vehicles and road transport legislation and have worked with trade unions but this is not essential

Extra Benefits
• RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews on 8th and 9th of October

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean 'your' interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.

We don't expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date 26th September. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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