Fleet Control Senior

Northrop Grumman; Oxford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in Oxford is seeking a Fleet Control Senior to oversee a busy maintenance control department. In this role, you will manage a small team, schedule repairs, and ensure maximum vehicle uptime for a diverse fleet. Key skills include supervising a team, understanding of repair costs, and knowledge of automotive software systems. If you're ready for a new challenge in your career, please get in touch. Competitive compensation and opportunities for growth await.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing maintenance control departments.
• Ability to supervise a team in a busy environment.
• Knowledge of automotive repair costs and warranty repairs.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a busy maintenance control department.
• Schedule repairs and ensure maximum team utilization.
• Chase progress on repairs with garages and service providers.

Skills

Supervising and mentoring a small team

Scheduling repairs and inspections

Technical knowledge of HGVs

Understanding of repair costs

IT systems knowledge

Tools

Kerridge

DMS

SAP

Job description

Fleet Control Senior – Monday to Friday – Days

As a Fleet Control Senior, you will be overseeing a busy maintenance control department and ensuring KPI's are met with your team. Your day to day role will see you with a headset on. Talking technical issues with a host of core garages and services providers, then this role could be for you. This is a role where you will be providing a first class support over the phone to the companies fleet of vehicles. The fleet is a diverse one that will include HGV's, Vans (LCV), Refuse Vehicles, Gritters, Sweepers, Light Commercials and Mini Buses. No 2 days will ever be the same in this exciting post. Your role will be varied including

• Supervising and mentoring a small team of Controllers
• Scheduling repairs, inspections and booking visits for the Field Engineers.
• FNOL First notice of Loss situations
• Chasing progress with a network of your own core garages and a chosen network of 3rd party maintenance providers.
• Logging repair and maintenance notifications
• Ensuring the field service team have a maximum utilisation.
• Maintaining updates on stock/ parts and ensuring correct levels

You will be chasing up recoveries as a consequence of breakdowns & accidents. You will also be chasing up repair providers to analyse and action defects. What is important is that you have an idea on repair costs and you are not afraid to challenge repair times. An understanding of what is and what isn't a warranty repair would also be useful. Understanding maintenance spend is a major part of this challenging role. If you have IT systems knowledge MS Office skills, this will also help you in this busy role. If you have technical knowledge of HGV's from a mechanical perspective, this would give you a sound platform. On a daily basis, you will be speaking with Service Managers, Workshop Controllers and Commercial Vehicle Technicians. Your core remit will be to ensure that a vehicle's downtime is kept to a minimum and getting that vehicle back on the road is your primary concern. A knowledge of authorisation automotive software such as Kerridge, DMS, SAP etc this would also be useful

If you are ready for the next chapter in your career, then please get in touch. If this role isn't for you but you are looking for a move, then please get in touch. Kautec Recruitment is a fast growing automotive people business that recruits the right way.