Staff - Workshop Supervisor in Northampton

Northampton, Force Headquarters - NN4 0JQ

The hiring manager reserves the right to close the advert prior to the closing date, depending on the level of applications.

The best part about working in the team: You’ll be part of a highly skilled and collaborative Joint Transport and Logistics team supporting both Northamptonshire Police and Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue Service. Working alongside and supervising a team of experienced technicians, you’ll have exposure to an exceptionally diverse fleet—from frontline fire appliances to specialist equipment—giving you the opportunity to continually build and apply advanced technical expertise. The team operates with a strong sense of purpose, pride, and camaraderie, particularly when supporting emergency responses where every contribution truly counts to the public of Northamptonshire.

The work this team does makes a difference by: This team plays a critical role in keeping Front Line Vehicles operational across the county. By working alongside our in-house team and external contractors in the delivery of maintaining and repairing vital vehicles and equipment to the highest safety and compliance standards, you will directly enable frontline officers to respond quickly and effectively to incidents. Whether it’s ensuring fire appliances or operational response vehicles are ready for deployment, minimising downtime, or providing on-scene technical support, your work helps protect lives, property, and communities every single day.

The purpose of the role: To supervise the motor vehicle technicians to provide a repair and maintenance function for Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue Service (NFRS) and Northamptonshire Police (NP), to include all frontline fire vehicles, specialist vehicles, support vehicles and associated technical equipment. Ensuring statutory regulations and best practice requirements are met so that two blue light emergency services can operate 24/7 365 days a year. It is therefore critical that any supervisor has experience in a minimum of (i) HGV or (ii) light vehicles and any additional experience in motorcycles, plant equipment or equipment would also be advantageous.

Why work for Us: Northamptonshire Police, Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue and Northamptonshire Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner are committed to delivering exceptional public services, our enabling services are committed to providing the very best support to our frontlines to do so. You will be playing your part in fighting crime and reducing fires with our roles within enabling services. Working across the services provides variety, job satisfaction and the chance to develop and challenge yourself, while improving the lives of others. If you want an opportunity with public service at its heart, in organisations that are on a journey to be outstanding, then join us.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion: We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are working hard to increase diversity and inclusion within the organisations where communities are under-represented, including those from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities, people of all ages, abilities, faiths, religions and gender, LGBTQ communities and those from other disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds, who share our values and wish to make a difference to the communities we serve. We are a Disability Confident Employer – We aim to achieve the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. If you meet the essential criteria for the role you can choose to share your disability if you would like to take part in our disability confident interview scheme. All applications will be treated on merit, based on the evidence provided in your application and suitability for the role you have applied for. All requests for flexible working patterns will be considered and will be dependent on the role.