Fleet Manager

Nottinghamshire Police has an exciting role to manage and monitor proactively all aspects of fleet and workshop services.

You would support the Head of Fleet in the development of the service, maintain the highest levels of delivery of departmental service and seek innovation, efficiency, best value, and continuous improvement in respect of the number, type, and specification of vehicles on fleet whilst ensuring that the overall levels of service are in accordance with Force requirements and budget targets are maintained.

Nottinghamshire Police' fleet provision comprises 623 vehicles an operating budget of £3.8m and over £4.3m asset value which requires an innovative and inclusive leader to help the team continue to deliver sustainable fleet service to support our delivery of our emergency service provision.

Specifically, responsible for leading the management of Fleet external contracts for supplies and services, liaising as required with Finance, including contract monitoring and review meetings and budget monitoring. Furthermore, contributing to fleet strategy development and delivery and related policy, regarding the future of the department and its services, ensuring that Force policies and procedures are always adhered to and support the Force and national carbon emissions and wider environmental requirements.

You would be supporting the developing our short-, medium- and long-term strategy to decarbonise our fleet provision whilst developing our staff to take on the challenges that this may entail by coordinating appropriate and comprehensive continuous professional development with a people focussed approach, consistent with our Proud to Serve Pledge.

We are looking for someone with experience managing a large fleet of vehicles in a large organisation with use of fleet being a key element of service delivery. You will possess thorough working knowledge and experience of the day-to-day management of vehicle services including procurement.

You will be able to identify risk to the organisation including financial (whole life costs), operational, and Health & Safety risks. With excellent negotiating skills you will have the ability to develop mutually beneficial relationships dealing with people at all levels within the organisation.

You should possess an appropriate vehicle related qualification such as certificate or diploma in vehicle fleet management or equivalent experience and be working towards such. You will be educated to NVQ Level 2 or be able to demonstrate ability to work to the above level by work experience.

Benefits

We operate a flexi scheme for staff; basic holiday entitlement of 24 days per year, plus Bank Holidays which increases to 29 and 32 days after 5 and 10 years' service respectively; salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work; and are part of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) which is a defined benefit scheme based on a career average salary.

To Apply

When applying, please complete the information on the next few screens referring to the person specification and job description to indicate your suitability for the role. Please attach a supporting statement and your CV.

For further information about the role please contact Rachael Whinham, Fleet Manager, Mob: .

For current Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner staff applicants, please note that Nottinghamshire Police would be a new employer.

Vetting Level - Management- you must have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note that you must obtain your line manager's sign off if applying for an internal vacancy. This will need to be submitted on the Line Manager Awareness Document (Support form) which is published on the intranet. Any applications submitted without the support document will not be progressed through the process. Completion of the Line Manager Awareness Document does not mean that release from your current role is supported. Should you be successful, a release date will be negotiated between the two departments.

Candidates currently at risk will be required to complete and attach the at-risk pro-forma document.

All applicants will be subject to the Force Vetting Policy.

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