Depot Manager

Your role as Depot Manager is to lead and develop the team whilst maintaining and improving business relationships with the depot's clients, building trust with employees, and helping drive efficiency through the business. The company is a leading traffic light hire business offering nationwide solutions.

This role offers a negotiable starting salary as this is one of the busiest sites with a Van, as well as a fuel card. Training and Development opportunities are available to improve your management and leadership skills and technical competence.

Main Responsibilities

• Help encourage increased sales whilst providing first-class customer service.
• Responsible for managing the working hours and attendance of your team to ensure the delivery and installations of our clients are completed in the planned timescales.
• Responsible for supporting our out-of-hours service delivery by forecasting and maintaining a 4-8 weekly call-out rota for your depot.
• Supporting our out-of-hours service delivery by conducting a 1:4 supervisor/manager escalation rota, during which you will be required to support our call-out teams by making remote decisions and communicating these on-site decisions effectively.
• Responsible for coordinating and managing your client hire requests, battery exchanges, and off-hire requests
• Response for monitoring and repairing all damaged assets to ensure we can fully utilise all available products.
• Responsible for completing and managing quality checks (Site Inspections) of work carried out by your installation teams to ensure that we are achieving the highest possible standards and there is an embedded culture of Right First time within the team.
• Responsible for building a cohesive and supportive working relationship within your depot between other depot teams

Systems and processes

• Maintain accurate asset records within our Syrinx system of all the hire equipment.
• Responsible for the daily/monthly completion of your depot stock book
• Accountable for the timely submission and approval of all timesheets and overtime sheets before them being sent to our payroll administrators.
• Ensure we support our contractor Rivus by providing all depot-allocated trailers are sent to be serviced on time.
• Conduct daily vehicle inspections. Additionally, checking all equipment within our vehicles is stowed safely.
• Responsible for monitoring and approving holiday requests and monitoring absences on Workzoom.

Essential Experience:

• Proven experience in the management of depots and people
• Worked within a Highways environment
• The ability to prioritise their own and the activities of others
• The ability to switch between tasks/projects
• The ability to effectively influence onsite work activities
• The ability to work alone and as part of a team
• IT Literacy, especially in Word, Excel, and Outlook
• SSSTS Qualified (Mandatory within six months of employment)
• Full driving license
• The role will be 80/20 split between the depot and, site work

Desirable Experience:

• Basic electrical knowledge
• Basic knowledge of traffic signals theory (phases/stages/detection)
• A basic understanding of traffic light installations
• CSCS cardholder
• Competent in driving a company van and pickups up to 3.5 Ton in size
• Competent in the towing of a trailer with plant equipment loaded
• Desirable Qualifications:
• GCSEs in English and Mathematics City and Guilds, qualification or equivalent in highways installations
• Sector 8 Accreditation, Health, and Safety qualifications, including NRSWA, G39, and ECS)

Personal Attributes / Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills and the ability to react to changing demands in a professional manner
• Resourceful and excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to deliver an excellent customer experience both internally and externally
• A person who takes the safety of themselves and others as their number 1 priority
• A reliable and flexible team player
• Organized, trustworthy and initiative-taking.
• Enthusiastic and collaborative approach.

Clients

Building and maintaining professional working relationships with our client base is something we take very seriously, and we are looking for someone who can help make our client base. In this role, you will have to conduct 360 reviews with all your clients every six months 

Health and Safety

At this company, they take health and safety very seriously. They are looking for someone who will make sure that all work conducted is undertaken at the highest level of safety for everyone. They aim to prevent or minimize pollution incidents, so someone with full regard for the environment would be a perfect fit for this role. You must be alert as it will be your job to identify any potential hazards and make sure they are either removed or minimised to prevent accidents.