Fleet Compliance Engineer

SCOTTISH POWER UK PLC; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

36 days annual leave

Holiday Purchase

Share Schemes

Payroll Giving and Charity Matched

Technology Vouchers

Electric Vehicle Schemes

Cycle to Work & Public Transport Loans

Private Medical Insurance & Health •

Life Assurance (4x salary)

Job summary

ScottishPower HQ in Glasgow is seeking a Fleet Compliance Engineer to support the Lead Operations Manager in ensuring roadworthy fleet of 1,500 vehicles and to uphold DVSA Operator Licence requirements. The role is hybrid and offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits.

You will inspect vehicles, audit maintenance records, and manage safety, policy adherence, and performance standards across internal and external partners. UK-wide scope and a focus on continuous improvement are key.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing vehicle compliance for a commercial fleet.
• Ability to implement health, safety and environmental controls.
• Proven report writing and data analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Support fleet HS&E controls across ScottishPower businesses and UK-wide audit programme.
• Audit vehicle records to ensure compliance with Operator Licence and statutory obligations.
• Inspect vehicles (HGV and LCV) in the field to verify maintenance work.
• Escalate issues to management and external partners.
• Communicate prohibitions to customers when safety or compliance risks arise.
• Develop escalation processes for management information and risk trends.
• Educate drivers on reducing vehicle and compliance risk.
• Collaborate with outsourced service providers to improve service delivery.

Skills

Fleet compliance experience

Driver safety & risk management

HSE knowledge

Analytical reporting

Communication skills

Influencing & leadership

Education

Technically qualified in motor vehicle maintenance and repair or equivalent experience

Certificate of Professional Competence for Transport Management (CPCTM) desirable

NEBOSH certificate desirable

Job description

Fleet Compliance Engineer ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow (hybrid) Salary up to £43,500 + excellent benefits Full-time, permanent position (happy to talk flexible working) Closing date – Monday 12th of October

Help us create a better future, quicker! The Fleet Compliance Engineer will assist the Lead Operations Manager in the control of all vehicle risks in relation to ScottishPower delivering its Operator Licence statutory requirements as set out by the DVSA. The Fleet Compliance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the roadworthiness of ScottishPower’s fleet of 1,500 vehicles including but not limited to vehicle inspection, maintenance record auditing, vehicle and driver safety, monitoring of contracted service delivery standards (and challenging such standards when required), vehicle environmental condition, and Operator License processes adherence and compliance.

What you’ll be doing

• Support the implementation of the Fleet HS&E controls across the ScottishPower Businesses, including a UK wide fleet compliance audit programme
• Implement audit practices to demonstrate vehicle record compliance in line with Operator License and statutory obligations
• Inspect vehicles (HGV and LCV) in the field to ensure that maintenance activities have been professionally, safely, and competently undertaken
• Escalate areas of concern, defects, etc to the Lead Operations Manager, Senior Managers, and external supply chain partners
• Identify immediate safety and/or compliance issues and, if required, prohibiting the use of a vehicle; confidently communicating such prohibition to the customer and standing behind the decision
• Develop an escalation process to enable effective management information reporting that identifies major fleet risk elements and trends with risk indicators across the group
• Develop relationships with internal ScottishPower customers in order to educate drivers in their responsibility in reducing vehicle and compliance risk
• Work closely with drivers to embed auditable processes and policies to ensure vehicles are legal and roadworthy in line with the Traffic Commissioners “Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness”
• Support the management of outsourced service providers by assisting towards continuous improvement across all areas of service delivery to ensure all statutory, contractual, commercial and performance objectives are fully satisfied

What you’ll bring

• Experience of managing vehicle compliance for a commercial fleet
• Experience in vehicle risk management processes and policy information
• Experienced in health, safety, and environmental management, with the ability to respond to H&S risks and or fleet emergency response
• Proven ability to build credibility, independently and constructively challenge the driver population towards best practice in line with General Services Fleet policy
• Ability to influence and encourage behavioural change
• Ability to assess, prioritise and confidently make the right decision in a dynamic service environment
• Good report writing skills with the ability to analyse data
• Ideally you will be working towards a certificate of Professional Competence for Transport Management NEBOSH is highly desirable

Minimum Criteria

• Experience of managing vehicle compliance for a commercial fleet
• Operator Licence Awareness (for example, Logistics UK eOLAT)
• Technically qualified in motor vehicle maintenance and repair or equivalent experience
• Good understanding of health, safety and environmental parameters impacting Fleet management services
• Strong communications skills

Special Requirements

• Flexibility to work out-with normal working hours in response to vehicle compliance checking and user responsibilities
• Flexibility to work in locations out-with normal working location
• Must hold a UK Drivers License

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%. At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow.

That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation. Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [e-mail].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

IMPORTANT Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below October-12-2026

We are one of the main energy companies in the world, a leader in renewables, which champions the energy transition towards a low-emissions economy. We supply energy to nearly 100 million people in dozens of countries and develops its renewable, network and commercial activities in Europe (Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and Greece), the United States, Brazil and Australia and maintains markets such as Japan and Poland, among others, as growth platforms.