Vehicle Maintenance Manager

Description

As Vehicle Maintenance Manager, you will ensure the company fully complies with DVSA regulations with regards vehicle maintenance and compliance. You will ensure all vehicles are serviced and maintained to a high standard and total compliance achieved. You’ll be responsible for all maintenance contracts, ensuring they are kept up to date, and you will manage vehicle maintenance facilities, ensuring any issues that arise are resolved accordingly.

Roles and Responsibilities

Ensure the company fully complies with DVSA regulations and the Operation Licence is compliant as per the undertakings of the licence

Manage the DVSA Earned Recognition KPI’s, ensuring issues are dealt with accordingly and data is accurate prior to upload to the DVSA

To be the Business’s lead in Fleet Compliance and Fleet Risk, ensuring that all Business’s procedures, specifically the areas outlined below, are adhered to, and administered effectively

A nominated Transport Manager on the Company’s Good Vehicle Operators Licence

To be pivotal in developing relationships and communication between the Fleet department and other departments in the business

Ensure all in-scope vehicles are serviced and maintained to a high standard and total compliance achieved and LOLER tests are up to date

Ensure vehicle tachograph recording equipment is inspected and calibrated in accordance with legislative timescales

Provide governance reports to the UK Fleet Manager and Group Compliance Manager (Transport) on vehicle maintenance compliance

Responsible for maintenance contracts (GV79) and ensuring they are kept up to date

Monitor/collate daily driver vehicle walkaround checks and instruct repair of any defects found

Manage the vehicle maintenance staff and facilities ensuring any issues that arise are resolved accordingly

To keep an accurate log of employee holidays and make sure these are accepted or declined in a timely manner and communicated to the employee

To keep an accurate log of employee’s sickness and absences through the TMS system using the correct absence codes and manage absence issues with HR support

To carry out any other tasks as instructed by the UK Fleet Manager or Senior Management which are in keeping with the job roleSkills and Experience

Transport Managers CPC - essential

Knowledge of transport operations and Operator Licensing requirements

Experience of management in a similar transport depot environment

Organisational Skills - making sure all maintenance records are up to date and compliant, PMI’s/services/MOTs are booked in advance

Good understanding of current legislations and keeping up to date with any legislative changes

Managing a team to achieve the companies expected standards of compliance and vehicle maintenance

Being pro-active and using initiative – devising solutions to problems, looking for ways to make the company more efficient and/or more profitable without being instructed to do so first

Approachable attitude – build good relationships with colleagues, customers and suppliers

Category B license - desirable

Join us on the journey…..

Over the past 30 years, Panda has continued to grow and acquire businesses that all share a very similar vision and set of values. We’re now a group of almost 3000 people, all contributing to that growth and success.

Whilst Panda is the parent company to numerous brands, we all share an ambitious vision for the future. Our primary goal is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people and connected partners is front and centre. As a team, we’re safer together. We deliver our customers with a partnership approach to managing their resources responsibly. We constantly push the boundaries of innovation. What’s good today can be better tomorrow.

Panda is not just a company, it’s a resource recovery business. Over the past three decades we’ve grown and diversified significantly, we believe that great leadership is rooted in strong values. As leaders within this industry, we’re committed to shaping a better future for our friends, families and communities. Our philosophy remains unchanged, balancing customer satisfaction with environmentally sustainable practices. Exceptional customer service, and unwavering dedication to sustainability are the cornerstones of our business.

Our journey is dependent upon talented, passionate, and dedicated people that constantly strive and challenge each other for better outcomes.

Take the first step today and join us on the journey………. xjnqpsq

Panda aims to attract and retain a skilled and diverse workforce that best represents the talent available in the communities in which our assets are located and our employees reside.

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