Fleet Manager
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.
Our Property Services team is knowledgeable, skilled, friendly and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high quality of service we provide.
We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, each and every day.
Housing sits at the heart of our organisation. We believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. Our Property Services team is crucial in helping us deliver on this vision.
The team works on the provision and maintenance of our large portfolio of properties. This demands strong organisational skills and the ability to work collaboratively with customers, other teams and external service providers.
We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.
The role
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Fleet Manager in Camden, London.
This role is responsible for ensuring One Housing Group’s vehicle fleet is managed and maintained in such a manner as to support operations in the most efficient way possible and ensuring compliance with H&S and procurement process. This role will be central to supporting the amalgamation of fleet for colleagues Tupe transferring into One Housing.
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000
Location: Hybrid. 3 days in the Camden office, 2 at home
Your responsibilities will include:
- Coordination, administering and monitoring the maintenance, repair, replacement and logistics of company vehicles.
- Conducting analysis of vehicle status and make recommendations for timely replacement, including type of vehicles, spares etc. in order to improve cost-efficiency
- Reviewing current needs and identify new systems and process to ensure a better utilisation of the fleet and provide value for money
- Creating business cases
- Project and contract management
- Providing recommendations for lowering vehicle-operating expenses and reduce idle time of vehicles and work closely with the operations team to find ways to reduce downtime due to repairs or lack of routine maintenance.
- Working in collaboration with finance on budget plans, and helping to implement policies and procedures to help with better identification of costs.
- Line management responsibilities
- Monitoring performance to achieve agreed KPIs and objectives
- Working closely with the operations team to find ways to reduce downtime due to repairs or lack of routine maintenance
What you will need to succeed
We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and is friendly and positive. The successful candidate will:
- Possess experience working in the following sectors within a Fleet Management role; Housing, Local Authority, Property Maintenance and/or a Repairs/Maintenance contractor.
- Understanding of vehicle systems and technology
- Experience of line management
- Be able to write competent business cases and prepare reports and present to senior management team.
- Hold a good understanding of Health and Safety with the ability to support/coach the wider team in their knowledge
- Be knowledgeable around project and contract management, and able to contribute to continuous improvement process.
- Possess a full driving license
The offer
Our Life@One benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.
- Salary: £45,000 - £50,000
- Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank
- Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
- Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each
- Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our
- Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
- Learning never One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
- We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
- Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
- Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.
About us
As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and our workforce reflects that. As of December 2021, One Housing merged with the Riverside Group, creating one of the country's largest housing associations, with more than 75,000 homes. This follows a shared recognition that we are better and stronger together; and that when we combine, we will be able to do more for our customers and the communities we serve.
At One Housing, our people are our strength which is why we work very hard to enable all employees to bring their authentic self to work. This commitment is reflected in our hybrid working policy, our diversity groups support network, our wellbeing initiatives and our employee benefits.
We understand that the different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.
We welcome applications from everyone.
Please note that the application closing date is included as a guide and adverts may be withdrawn and vacancies closed before the guide date indicated. We recommend that if you are interested in applying for this role that you do not delay in submitting your application.
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Job Reference: OH00668