VMU Manager in Dagenham

🌍 Dagenham
💰 £50,000- £55,000pa DOE
⏰ Monday to Friday, 45 hours per week, 07:00 – 16:30. Flexibility required.

The Job

At Rygor Service Solutions, part of the Rygor Group, they are looking for an experienced and dedicated VMU Manager who leads by example and inspires the team around them. They are looking for a great team member who will create a good working atmosphere, enthuse and motivate their team.

🗓️ Day-to-day, you will:

• To plan and control your workforce resource availability to meet your customer’s fleet demands.
• To manage and control labour costs, including any use of third parties.
• To comply with safety audits and manage the working code of practice for contractors.
• Ensuring planning for facilities, bays, machines, tools, diagnostic installations, etc. are carried out correctly, with optimal design of workplaces and processes.
• Preparing planning and calculations for investments in workshops, facilities and HR, together with the Rygor management.
• Regularly review prices for workshop services and, after prior agreement with Rygor management, adapt them to suit the market.
• Measure and report on daily workshop performance around retail sales, warranty and internal contract.
• WIP management and cash control.
• Employing new staff and carrying out effective induction.
• Managing, coaching and motivating employees, ensuring retention of high-quality team members.
• Defining target agreements with employees and reviewing the level of target achievement.

⚙️ Skills & Behaviours Required for this Role:

• Resilience - A resilient person is someone who has strong coping skills and can draw on these when life presents challenges.
• Communication- It sounds simple, but communication is at the heart of this role. You need to love being the first point of contact for those in your team and inspiring them through engaging and motivating communication.
• Motivation - To ensure personal and team success, being motivated is essential and is a key part of your role and it is part of being a brilliant team player and inspiring others.
• Time Management- Ability to prioritise and complete tasks within timeframes to meet customer demands and maintain workshop efficiency.

🥳 Benefits for you

• Overtime opportunities
• A day off for your Birthday
• 23 days of annual leave per year
• Four times death in service benefit
• Branded uniform and boot allowance.
• Working for an official Great Place to Work™️ and UK Best Workplace for three years running!
• Working for a Best UK Workplace for Wellbeing
• Working for a UK Best Workplace for Development.
• Working with an award-winning team – they have been named 'Service Provider of the Year' at the WhatVan? Awards 2022 and winners at the IOIC Employee Engagement Awards
• Recipients of the Silver Award under the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Auto-enrolment pension
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay policies
• Access to our wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP and 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion)
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Toolbox insurance
• Reward and recognition programmes, including our annual Rygor Group Awards
• Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities
• Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training hub
• Long service recognition

🚛 About Rygor Service Solutions

Rygor Service Solutions is part of the industry-renowned Rygor Group, which also owns Rygor Auto (an award-winning multi-franchise Dealer group, with branches across England, offering extensive coverage for customers throughout the M5, M4 and M42 corridors)

Rygor Service Solutions is an independent fleet workshop division, specialising in full management of commercial vehicle fleets within customers' premises, or totally mobile servicing solutions. They look after some of the UK’s largest fleets, including Tesco, Ocado, and Brakes. They are committed to keeping them on the road, serving their customers.

The Group has multiple industry and network awards under their belt and provides exceptional customer service. What’s more, they are officially a Great Place to Work™️ three years on the run, meaning they really do have a great company culture which embodies their values of Rewarding, Reliable and Respectful.

DBS: Please be advised that successful applicants to Rygor or any of their associated businesses may be subject to satisfactory completion of a DBS check before joining the business.

Our Process

When applying, please include a full current CV with your current salary outlined and notice period, once this has been reviewed, we will be in touch to advise if your application will be progressed through to the next stage. The Riverside Resourcing & Consultancy recruitment process reflects our obligations under relevant UK legislation. Whilst all applications are carefully considered, we are only able to progress applications from candidates who have the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Managing your data

We care about your personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation provides you with more control and by applying to us, we consider this to be an agreement to process your personal data in support of our recruitment and selection process. Your application data is held within our secure applicant tracking system through hireful - you will be given access to a candidate zone in this system where you can monitor and manage your application and see status updates. We will communicate with you, by email or phone, throughout the recruitment process so that we can keep you updated and inform you of your application progress.