Fleet Workshop Manager: Lead Maintenance & Change

Royal Mail; Perth; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family friendly benefits

Dental insurance

Health assessment

Wellbeing support

Pension scheme

My Bundle+

Job summary

Royal Mail is seeking a Workshop Manager to lead operations at our Perth site and drive fleet performance, safety, and cost effectiveness. You will manage maintenance services, oversee a dispersed workshop network and ensure delivery against SLAs.

You will optimise workshop efficiency, engage with stakeholders and unions, develop your team and champion continuous improvement initiatives across the fleet operations. The role requires flexibility to travel to other sites as needed.

Qualifications

• You need to be fully qualified to at least advanced level (IMI Level 3) in Light or Heavy vehicle maintenance & repair or an equivalent qualification.
• Established team leader with relevant industry knowledge and experience of dispersed maintenance operations.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for compliance to both legal and RM safety policies and meeting safety targets as well as delivering maintenance services and for optimising cost performance & forecasting through the use of the resource planning and booking tools
• Be responsible for optimising the efficiency of Fleet Workshops to meet industry standard performance levels and the deployment of all changes relating to Fleet Workshops
• Ensure effective engagement, communication and coaching to support and develop the Fleet Workshop team
• Be accountable for the achievement of all agreed targets, including internal Customer targets with SLAs through the use of effective performance management techniques
• Actively deploy, manage and support the maintenance of ISO 9001 quality standard within Fleet Workshops and support Continuous Improvement activity within the Workshops
• Effectively manage the local IR interface, working collaboratively with union colleagues to deliver change

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Union relations

Coaching

Education

IMI Level 3 in Light or Heavy vehicle maintenance & repair

Job description

Royal Mail is seeking a Workshop Manager to lead operations at our Perth site and drive fleet performance, safety, and cost effectiveness. You will manage maintenance services, oversee a dispersed workshop network and ensure delivery against SLAs.

You will optimise workshop efficiency, engage with stakeholders and unions, develop your team and champion continuous improvement initiatives across the fleet operations. The role requires flexibility to travel to other sites as needed.