Oversee Manchester & Liverpool Vehicle Bases
50k
Whilst experience of fleet, transport or logistics operations may be beneficial, this role is primarily suited to an experienced operational leader with strong people management skills. We are seeking someone who has successfully led large teams, managed performance, driven behavioural change, improved employee engagement and built a culture of accountability. The ability to influence, coach and develop people to achieve exceptional operational outcomes is more important than technical fleet management experience.
Main Purpose:
Responsible for the profitable delivery of a devolved profit and loss business area, within service and contract requirements, to deliver overall profitability and service for the Vehicle Base(s) and for GEOAmey.
Key Tasks:
- Manage the overall operation of your base(s) to meet profit targets within a devolved P&L account.
- Understand the GEOAmey contract to lead on performance and contract management of Vehicle Base(s).
- Understand key profit drivers and direct all efforts to ensuring a profitable return from the Vehicle Base(s).
- Understand the operation, the planning process and all other business system processes and ensure consistent application of GEOAmey SOP’s.
- Achieve service standards as stipulated in the contract.
- Develop excellent understanding of the contract to ensure best value and commercial delivery for GEOAmey.
- Manage, motivate and lead Vehicle Base employees to maximise their performance, productivity and engagement. Encourage team to constantly strive for higher standards to deliver the contract expectations, contract KPI’s and overall performance objectives.
- Foster a proactive employee relations and engagement culture, including where applicable relationships with recognised trade unions.
- Ensure that Health and Safety policies and procedures and all Standard Operational Procedures (SOP’s) are in place and adhered to at all times within your Vehicle Base(s).
- Evaluate and monitor the delivery of services to maintain health & safety of employees, those in our care and other agencies at our locations.
- Demonstrate and apply knowledge and understanding of risk assessments and a risk based approach in the workplace
- Ensure all employees working in your area of responsibility are fully aware of company policies, procedures and contractual requirements.
- Work as part of the Regional Team towards the achievement of the Region and GEOAmey’s objectives.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders including SPS, Court employees, Prison staff and Governors in order to influence them positively towards supporting GEOAmey’s objectives.
- Ensure compliance with all legal requirements and policies in relation to fleet management.
- Deliver a strategic “People Plan” for Vehicle Base(s) with a focus on succession planning, talent mapping and performance management.
- Proactive driving of Compliance standards
- Any other tasks that is required to deliver the contract and is deemed to be reasonable
Relationships:
- GEOAmey Executive Team Members.
- External Stakeholders –SPS and Partner Agencies.
- Support Function Teams – HR, Finance, Compliance, Commercial, Fleet.
- Operational Management Teams.
- Recognised Trade Unions and Employee Representatives.
- Employees.
Person Specification:
- Demonstrates a positive approach to all we deal with in a diverse manner
- Champions the values of the company, ensuring employees conduct themselves in an appropriate manner at all times.
- Proactively supports the Investors in Diversity accreditation within your Vehicle Base(s).
- Creates a climate of participation, trust and respect.
- Able to give specific and constructive feedback to help improve performance, and works hard through honest conversations to improve areas of under performance
- Sets high personal standards by example.
- Is confident, clear and accurate when communicating demonstrating an ability to positively influence employees and stakeholders
- Able to explain the challenges of the business in a clear way, to enable understanding of all employees of the contribution that they can make towards the success of GEOAmey
- Achieves targets ensuring continuous improvements, all the time keeping this in line with profit requirements
- Passionate about health, safety and wellbeing
Needs to know:
- Management knowledge and experience of delivering within cost and profit targets
- Able to positively lead and manage people within a unionised business in a multi site environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Good understanding of Health & Safety legislation and able to assess risk and make risk based decisions
- Proven ability to develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
- Proven persuader and influencer
- Personal resilience and desire to deliver a challenging role
- Driving Licence
- Able to achieve security clearance to required level
- Self-motivated and tenacious
- Highly confident in challenging the status-quo to positively influence and support achievement of business objectives
- Able to organise self and others and to manage time and concurrent priorities
- Knowledge of operating in a secure environment, some knowledge of judicial systems and processes, and understanding of the operation of the criminal justice system.
- Demonstrable experience leading large operational teams in a service-driven environment. Logistics, transport or fleet management experience is advantageous but not essential.
- O Licence holder, or be willing to undertake training to achieve O licence accreditation, holder of CPC National Passenger Transport and Road Haulage or willing to undertake training (PCV or freight national)
Additional Information
- All roles within GEOAmey are subject to a risk assessment being completed to confirm the vetting status required for the applicant / job holder to undertake the duties of the role. This role has been risk assessed as requiring Enhance Level Clearance
- The job holder is required to complete the necessary paperwork to complete the vetting process. Any offers of employment are subject to the relevant vetting clearances being obtained. Security and Vetting Decisions are made by the Vetting Outcome Decision Makers and not GEOAmey
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