Fleet Technical Officer

Place seeks to recruit a highly motivated individual to work as a member of a team delivering excellent quality support services to the Fleet and Workshop Operations of Fleet Services. Applicants will need to have a passion for excellence and significant experience in fleet management or account management experience in a fleet or vehicle maintenance environment.

You must also have either a good working knowledge of a fleet management system such as Fleetwave2 or have experience of managing customer relations in a fleet environment, demonstrating an understanding of vehicle specifications as well as management of the supply base from point of vehicle order to delivery.

You must also be able to demonstrate a basic level of understanding of the Operator’s Licence compliance requirements including best practice for vehicle maintenance including LOLER and other statutory maintenance requirements. You must be able to work effectively as part of a team, have team leadership experience, be self‑motivated and willing to adopt a flexible approach to meet priorities and deadlines.

This role incorporates liaising with internal and external customers regarding the ordering and commissioning of vehicles so applicants must be confident in project managing vehicles from point of initial specification through the order and delivery stages to handover.

You must have proven literacy and numeracy skills and be highly proficient in using a range of IT systems and packages, especially MS Office. You must be able to confidently manipulate and analyse data in Microsoft Excel to provide reports and recommendations to senior managers.

The successful applicant must also have excellent interpersonal skills and be capable of dealing with contacts at all levels with other Council departments, internal and external customers, government enforcement agencies, members of the public and suppliers of goods and services. You will be required to use your initiative to resolve a range of transport related issues and to ensure compliance with relevant transport legislation.

You must be highly organised, have excellent planning skills and be able to set and achieve targets through regular performance review. Delivering performance through the departmental Quality Management System is essential and the successful applicant will have a collective responsibility to ensure standards continue to be exceeded and for supporting areas of weakness as and when required.

Applicants must have the ability to speak fluent English in order to be able to communicate fully in the role with clients/the public. The successful applicant will be required to undertake and pass a Police vetting check known as NPPV2. Failure to do so will mean the successful applicant would not be able to carry on in this role.