Fleet and Equipment Manager
| Posting date: | 07 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,146 to £58,781 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 June 2025 |
| Location: | SP1 3NR |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to join Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service, an organisation that is passionate about changing and saving lives. Our corporate staff are absolutely vital in helping to make our communities safer and healthier. Without them, we couldn’t do it.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits and strive to ensure that staff are valued and rewarded. For example, we offer a flexi time scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme, a generous annual leave allowance, a variety of family friendly schemes including 39 weeks’ full pay during maternity leave (subject to qualifying criteria) and health & well-being services.
As a Fleet and Equipment Manager in our Assets department you will:
Manage the Fleet & Equipment department/function in the delivery of its operations to ensure the function is maintained in line with all relative or appropriate regulation, legislation and industry ‘best practice’.
Line manage the Fleet & Equipment teams to ensure compliance with policies and procedures to deliver a consistently high standard of asset management and service.
Manage all vehicle, fleet and equipment budgets, including both capital and revenue expenditure in line with the CSP and other strategic plans; budget-setting, projections and/or bidding and claiming for external funding.
Develop and own DWFRS Fleet and Equipment policies and procedures that apply to acquisition, utilisation, maintenance and disposal of assets to ensure all statutory requirements are complied with.
What makes you our ideal Fleet and Equipment Manager?
You will have excellent communication skills and a positive attitude to internal/external customer care.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
You will have the ability to lead, coach and manage people towards achieving desired goals.
You must be an analytical thinker, able to focus on complex business transformation issues.
For full details of the role and requirements please have a look at the job description and person specification.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits and strive to ensure that staff are valued and rewarded. For example, we offer a flexi time scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme, a generous annual leave allowance, a variety of family friendly schemes including 39 weeks’ full pay during maternity leave (subject to qualifying criteria) and health & well-being services.
As a Fleet and Equipment Manager in our Assets department you will:
Manage the Fleet & Equipment department/function in the delivery of its operations to ensure the function is maintained in line with all relative or appropriate regulation, legislation and industry ‘best practice’.
Line manage the Fleet & Equipment teams to ensure compliance with policies and procedures to deliver a consistently high standard of asset management and service.
Manage all vehicle, fleet and equipment budgets, including both capital and revenue expenditure in line with the CSP and other strategic plans; budget-setting, projections and/or bidding and claiming for external funding.
Develop and own DWFRS Fleet and Equipment policies and procedures that apply to acquisition, utilisation, maintenance and disposal of assets to ensure all statutory requirements are complied with.
What makes you our ideal Fleet and Equipment Manager?
You will have excellent communication skills and a positive attitude to internal/external customer care.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
You will have the ability to lead, coach and manage people towards achieving desired goals.
You must be an analytical thinker, able to focus on complex business transformation issues.
For full details of the role and requirements please have a look at the job description and person specification.
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