Position Summary:
The Engineering & Compliance Team is responsible for the delivery of the logistics fleet including, food, mainline, home delivery and fastrack, legal compliance, hire, and MHE (manual handling equipment). You will assist with auditing site adherence to policies and procedures, specifically Fleet, Operator Licence, Insurance and taxation, ensuring that the function remains legal. You’ll also negotiate with suppliers within a set level of discretion re hire of fleet.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work to standard operating model to ensure all company legislative processes and procedures for colleagues and external contractors, including Health and Safety, Safe Working Practices and
- Environment are carried out.
- Responsible for the administration of legal compliance, Operators licence, Vehicle Excise Duty, DVS (Direct Vision Standard) Insurance, LBTS (London lorry ban), service and fleet maintenance within the Operations Support function in logistics, by ensuring all fleet legal obligations and policies are adhered to at all times, for both in house and third party fleet departments.
- Identify tracking devices not working, escalate faults to depots and arrange and manage engineer support calls to influence full resolution of the issues.
- Influence site adherence to policies and procedures with regard to fleet, Operator Licence and taxation, ensuring that the function remains legal.
- Manage the tracking of assets, control the asset tracking register and maintain ITMS database with fleet, driver and locations to ensure always tracked.
- Responsible for administration and accuracy of Operations databases and external legal bodies’ processes and procedures.
- Support regular service review meetings with suppliers and address any areas of under performance against SLA’s and influence corrective measures.
- Compile and Administer Sites VOR Report
- Manage ongoing installation and de-installation costs of tracking equipment and challenge.
- Ensure that processes are followed for the accurate management of assets and compliance in order to maintain compliance and reduce costs. Ensure that the Company complies with the contractual agreements associated with fleet asset finance.
Required Education & Experience:
- Analytical skills and the production of financial reports
- Experience of working with internal and external stakeholders
- Understanding of systems used in compliance and asset management i.e. databases, OLBS (VOSA
- Operators compliance system), DVLA compliance, insurance database
- Experience of customer service
- Good communication and influencing/negotiation skills
- Knowledge of Road Transport Legislation. National Certificate of Professional Competence in road haulage an advantage but not essential
- Have a driving licence with a flexible approach to travel to depots and other locations