We are currently working with one of the South's leading utility and reinstatement companies.
This position offers a stable career with a well-established contractor boasting a healthy order book with several clients and the freedom to manage your own workload across the areas.
Salary to £75k | Company Vehicle or Allowance | Pension | 28 Days Holiday
Key Essentials:

• Reporting to senior management; your role will involve overall management of the company's plant and transport. The fleet entails circa.120 vehicles including vans, cars, pick-ups, 7.5t lorries, grabs and hotboxes. Plant includes minidiggers (to 1.5t), trailors, whackers, breakers and small plant
  
• Utilising and maintaining the fleet to the best of its capabilities
  
• Ensuring that all vehicles are routinely serviced with essential maintenance carried out; ensuring that O Licence conditions, FORS and DVSA guidelines are adhered to
  
• Ensuring that all P&T records are kept up to date
  
• Enforce the group vehicle policy; ensure that all drivers / operators have the correct / valid licence for the fleet being driven
  
• Maintain relations with fleet / hire companies; regularly negotiate rates and agreements
  
• Ensure fleet insurance premiums are monitored on a bi-annual basis; negotiating with brokers
  
• Point of contact when investigating fleet accidents; manage claims with any affected parties
  
• Provide fleet recommendations to senior management - comparing asset life cycle ownership costs against hire costs; taking into account contract requirements
  
• Monitor fuel consumption including negotiating prices
  
• Regularly attending transport and management meetings
  
• Attending regular planning meetings to understand plant movement for the forthcoming weeks; relaying information with the P&T department
  Requirements:
  
• Previous experience as a Plant & Transport Manager for a Civil Engineering / Utility company
  
• Qualified with Transport Manager CPC with excellent knowledge of Goods Vehicles Operator licence (O Licence) requirements
  
• It is essential that you have excellent I.T Skills in Microsoft Office packages
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