Regional Fleet Engineer

DPD Group UK; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Regional Fleet Engineer, ensuring vehicle safety and compliance while fostering a culture of excellence. In this dynamic role, you will engage with depot staff, conduct audits, and collaborate with suppliers to enhance performance. With a commitment to sustainability and employee development, this organization offers a competitive salary and exceptional benefits, including unique perks like holiday trading and enhanced family leave. If you're passionate about making a difference in the transport sector, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Holiday trading

Enhanced maternity and paternity package

Free life assurance

Free onsite car parking

Health Kiosks

Vitality at Work

Discounted shopping

Milestone Days off

Free eye tests

Qualifications

• Extensive vehicle mechanical knowledge and experience in the transport sector.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure vehicle safety and legal compliance.
• Conduct audits and monitor supplier performance.
• Identify and reduce vehicle damage causes.

Skills

vehicle mechanical knowledge

internal audits

financial awareness

decision-making skills

problem-solving skills

communication skills

team player

Job description

Company Description

• Contract Type: Permanent / 40 Hours Per Week
• Salary: circa £48k per year, bonus up to 15%, car or car allowance
• Location: Heathrow and Surrounding areas
• Days of Work: Monday - Friday
• Hours of Work: 08:00 - 17:00

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world-class service. You will be in a busy and fast-paced business, with a turnover of nearly £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career.

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive, and socially responsible. Along with job security, the tools to do the job, and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.

Job Description

We are now looking for an experienced Regional Fleet Engineer to strengthen our highly skilled and high-performing Fleet Services Team.

In this position, you will be responsible for ensuring our vehicles that are being used are safe and legally compliant. You will also be upskilling depot staff in the safe use of equipment and ensuring that they are aware of the company defect and booking procedures.

You’ll also be focused on:

• Looking at supplier performance, monitoring associated services, and cost as well as auditing the quality of work.
• Carrying out weight checks, fleet checks, and site inspections.
• Identifying key areas and causes of vehicle damage and working with the Depot Management Team to devise strategies to reduce damage sustained.
• Ensuring all suppliers of vehicle-related goods and services meet company requirements, in terms of cost and legal compliance (including health and safety considerations).

Qualifications

What we’re looking for:

• Extensive vehicle mechanical knowledge and demonstrable experience within the transport sector.
• Ability to carry out internal audits.
• Strong financial awareness.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to engage and build strong working relationships with employees and suppliers.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• A great team player who demonstrates the core DPD DNA values of Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Caring, and Accountability.

Additional Information

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business; without them, we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few:

• Holiday trading
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
• Free onsite car parking for all employees
• Health Kiosks visiting every location
• Vitality at Work
• Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
• Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
• For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job, we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses.

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.

If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today.