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Fleet Development Manager
Pertemps
2021-12-03 07:38:18
London,
Greater London,
United Kingdom
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Other
Job description
Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km's of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic. At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
What you will be doing as a Fleet Development Manager
This is a fantastic opportunity to support and execute Thames Water transition to an alternative fuel and optimised company fleet of LCVs, HGVs and plant equipment reducing our carbon footprint in line with our net zero strategy. This role brings significant autonomy working alongside an ambitious team of professionals passionate about our environment and customer service. You will also be vital in influencing the evolution in how we work, implementing an internal and outward facing fleet management system supplying data transparency to our customers whilst embedding workflow efficiencies and enhanced management information.
We're looking for you to
Take ownership of key strategic goals, whilst establishing key relationships with supply chain and managers, to ensure a smooth delivery of our strategy. Your key responsibilities will include:
The Job
What's in it for you?
This is an opportunity to challenge the norm and take ownership in transforming our fleet of vehicles to reduce our carbon footprint and play our part in helping sustain the environment we live in.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefit scheme that includes, an annual pay review, season ticket loans, voucher scheme giving you money off in major retail outlets, loyalty awards for continuous service plus much more, including our referral scheme, where you can receive £750 for helping someone get a permanent position within the company. We're also proud to be here for our local community, offering everyone two days paid volunteer to leave a year, as well as proudly supporting a lot of local events and charities.
We're proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you'll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We're also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
You can find out more in our working for us section of our website.
Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km's of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic. At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
What you will be doing as a Fleet Development Manager
This is a fantastic opportunity to support and execute Thames Water transition to an alternative fuel and optimised company fleet of LCVs, HGVs and plant equipment reducing our carbon footprint in line with our net zero strategy. This role brings significant autonomy working alongside an ambitious team of professionals passionate about our environment and customer service. You will also be vital in influencing the evolution in how we work, implementing an internal and outward facing fleet management system supplying data transparency to our customers whilst embedding workflow efficiencies and enhanced management information.
We're looking for you to
Take ownership of key strategic goals, whilst establishing key relationships with supply chain and managers, to ensure a smooth delivery of our strategy. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Rolling out of our electric vehicle replacement programme
- Liaising with key stakeholders to determine best practise
- Cost and financial analysis to accompany plans
- Assisting with the development of the Fleet Management System
- Building alternative fuel plans for plant equipment
- Identifying key opportunities for alternative fuel and costs
- Providing advice on matters of responsibility and specialism
The Job
- £39,000 to £45,000 depending on skills and experience
- Based at Clearwater, Reading with hybrid working once training has been completed
- Travel required to attend other sites
- 36 hours per week, Monday-Friday
- Full training and excellent wider benefits package - see below
- Knowledge of alternative fuelled vehicles not limited to electric
- Knowledge of light and heavy plant equipment
- Understanding of fleet management systems
- Full UK driving licence
- Experience of delivering projects in time and on budget
- Excellent influencing and communications skills
What's in it for you?
This is an opportunity to challenge the norm and take ownership in transforming our fleet of vehicles to reduce our carbon footprint and play our part in helping sustain the environment we live in.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefit scheme that includes, an annual pay review, season ticket loans, voucher scheme giving you money off in major retail outlets, loyalty awards for continuous service plus much more, including our referral scheme, where you can receive £750 for helping someone get a permanent position within the company. We're also proud to be here for our local community, offering everyone two days paid volunteer to leave a year, as well as proudly supporting a lot of local events and charities.
We're proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you'll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We're also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
You can find out more in our working for us section of our website.