Depot Supervisor

Doe Park Water Activities Centre; Glasgow; Presencial; GBP 26.000 - 32.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Bradford Council is seeking a Depot Supervisor to oversee maintenance across parks and open spaces. The role requires leading small outdoor teams, coordinating schedules, and ensuring safety and efficiency in operations.

You will manage vehicle operations, quotes, and invoicing, while maintaining asset security and responding to emergencies, including out-of-hours and winter support. A hands-on manager with strong communication is essential.

Formación

• Experience supervising maintenance on parks and open spaces.
• Ability to coordinate multiple outdoor teams across a district.
• Valid driving licence and ability to operate vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes.

Responsabilidades

• Supervise maintenance activities across sites including parks, playing fields, buildings, play areas and open spaces.
• Lead and coordinate multiple outdoor teams carrying out grounds maintenance within an identified area.
• Direct depot staff with defined operational methods and make on-the-spot decisions for schedules and priorities.
• Drive and operate a wide range of vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes with trailers for transporting mowers and equipment.
• Ensure security of equipment, perform daily checks and organise repairs.
• Price up jobs, provide quotations and arrange invoicing through admin.
• Check property records to identify land ownership, handle insurance claims and frontline complaints.
• Monitor workloads and performance; carry out staff tests and licence checks; report to Parks & Street Cleansing Manager.
• Manage depot and building security, including opening and closing duties.
• Assist in out-of-hours emergency response, winter maintenance and cover duties in manager's absence.

Conocimientos

Supervision

Team leadership

Grounds maintenance

Vehicle operation

Invoicing

Descripción del empleo

Job Introduction

Depot Supervisor for South

We are looking for a Depot Supervisor to join our dedicated team in the Parks & Street Cleansing South. This role is an opportunity to make a real difference in our vibrant and diverse city.

The Main Responsibilities Of This Role

• .Responsible for the effective and efficient supervision of all maintenance activities within sites including formal parks, playing fields, bowling greens, buildings, play areas and other open spaces.
• To lead and co-ordinate with multiple small teams working outdoors carrying out grounds maintenance activities within an identified area across the district.
• Responsible for the supervision and direction of depot employees generally operating in line with defined operational methods but requiring regular 'on the spot' decisions with regard to work schedules, priorities and issues in order to ensure delivery of a quality service.
• Responsible for driving and operating a wide range of vehicles and plant including vehicles up to 7.5 tonnes with trailer attachments for transporting mowers, as well as ride-on-mowers & pedestrian operated machinery.
• Responsible for security of equipment, undertaking daily checks, reporting defects and organising repairs.
• To price up jobs, providing quotations and arranging invoicing through admin.
• Checking property records to identify land ownership, deal with insurance claims and front line complaints.
• Monitoring of staff workloads and performance, carrying out the council's test and inspect, including driving licence checks making recommendations to the Parks & Street Cleansing Manager. Carry out basis return to work discussions for parks staff.
• To be responsible for the security of the depot and building within designated area of responsibility including opening and closing depot/buildings as necessary
• Assist the Parks & Street Cleansing Manager in the operation of emergency service as required, particularly with buildings within designated area of responsibility, including 24 hour call out duties and the organisation and delivery of out of hours response to emergency situations including winter maintenance.
• carry out identified duties in the absence of the Parks & Street Cleansing Manager.

Employee Offer

Why work for Bradford Council? Find out why by taking a look at Our Employee Offer.pdf

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and able to thrive. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process to support your application, please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

The RESPECT Allyship Programme is available to all staff, which offers the opportunity to learn more about the diverse communities & groups and provides added benefits and resources to its members.

Attached documents

• depot supervisors JP.doc