Business Unit Fleet & Plant Manager
Role Overview
Eurovia seeks a Fleet & Plant Manager to own fleet, plant and transport operations across the country.
The role provides strategic direction and hands-on management of daily performance, compliance and asset utilisation.
Assets and operations support highways and infrastructure project delivery.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Eurovia seeks a Fleet & Plant Manager to own fleet, plant and transport operations across the country.
The role provides strategic direction and hands-on management of daily performance, compliance and asset utilisation.
Assets and operations support highways and infrastructure project delivery.
Duties
- Lead fleet, plant and transport operations nationally.
- Manage vehicle and plant lifecycles, maintenance programmes and replacement strategies.
- Ensure operator licence, statutory inspection and transport legislation compliance.
- Drive fleet utilisation, efficiency and cost optimisation.
- Manage budgets, forecast expenditure and identify improvements.
- Oversee suppliers, contractors, procurement and service agreements.
- Promote health, safety and compliance; lead and develop operational teams.
- Report performance and use fleet data and telematics for decisions.
- Support business improvement, transformation and change.
Person specification
- Proven fleet, plant or transport experience in construction, highways, civil engineering, infrastructure or a similarly demanding operational environment.
- Experience managing large and diverse fleets and significant fleet, plant and transport operations.
- Knowledge of telematics, fleet systems, compliance, maintenance planning and workshop operations.
- Experience with budgets, cost control and suppliers; successful operational team leadership.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, HSEQ, compliance and risk-management understanding.
- Able to balance strategic planning with practical operational delivery.
Desirable experience and qualifications
- CPC in Road Transport Operations or equivalent transport qualification.
- Experience delivering operational improvements and transformation programmes.
- Professional-body membership such as IRTE, CILT, IAM, IOSH or similar; IOSH Managing Safely; NEBOSH Certificate.
- Relevant engineering, transport, fleet management or HSEQ qualifications.
Contract and hours
- Permanent, full-time role.
- 40 hours, Monday to Friday.
Work arrangements
- The employer says flexible arrangements, including working from home, are available across many roles; the posting does not specify this role's workplace arrangement.
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