Transport Manager in Surrey

Location: Lambeth, SE24 0PZ

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 plus excellent benefits

Schedule: Full time, 37 hours per week

Ready to impact a better future? As a Transport Manager, you’ll play a vital role in delivering a safe, compliant and reliable fleet operation that supports essential services across our contracts. You’ll ensure vehicles are maintained, available and fully compliant with Operator Licence requirements, helping our teams deliver for communities every day. You’ll focus on keeping the fleet run efficiently, supporting frontline teams to deliver services without disruption. By maintaining high standards and working closely with stakeholders, you’ll help ensure operations run as they should, day in and day out.

What you’ll do as a Transport Manager

• Ensure full compliance with Operator Licence requirements and all relevant UK road transport legislation
• Manage fleet maintenance planning to ensure vehicles are serviced and maintained in line with manufacturer guidelines
• Oversee daily fleet availability to meet contract requirements and maintain service delivery
• Monitor third-party providers to ensure performance meets contractual and legislative standards
• Manage vehicle incidents, defects, and breakdowns, ensuring timely resolution and accurate reporting
• Maintain accurate fleet records, including asset registers, driver qualifications, and compliance documentation

Does this sound like you? You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• A National Transport Manager Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)
• Strong knowledge of UK and EU road transport legislation
• Experience in fleet management within a complex operational environment
• Confidence managing compliance, data, and operational performance
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across teams and stakeholders

Vetting and checks: As well as checking eligibility to work in the UK, you will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to help us identify and provide any support you may need to undertake the role effectively.

What we offer

• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays (and the option to buy up to five additional leave days each year)
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

About Serco

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Apply Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.

For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.