Maintenance and Workshop Manager

Job Title: Maintenance and Workshop Manager

Location: Workshop Maidstone/county wide for maintenance

Salary: Grade 8 £47,076 - £52,397 per annum

Pension: Career average pension scheme with 17.5% employer contribution

Holidays: In addition to entitlement to bank/public holidays you will receive 31 days leave

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Ref: VR1326

Being a part of Kent Fire and Rescue Service

Everyone is unique. Everyone has value. Everyone helps to make Kent Fire and Rescue Service a great place to work. We are one team. Together with our customers we are creating a safer future for Kent and Medway. 

Are you passionate about continuous improvement in a fleet workshop and maintenance environment?

This is an exciting time to be joining the Kent Fire and Rescue Fleet Team where we are focusing on how we can deliver our services in a more efficient and effective way.

Being a Maintenance and Workshop Manager

Being responsible for servicing and maintenance across a wide variety of vehicle types, you will be essential to keeping our fleet operational to enable it to respond to incidents across the County. Our fleet is specialist in design, and you will be required to respond to multiple competing demands whilst continuously improving methods and systems of work. You will know that the work you do has a significant contribution to keeping Kent and Medway safe.

What you’ll do

• Develop and manage the technical staff of Kent Fire and Rescue Fleet Services Department ensuring that staff fulfil their potential and that they contribute effectively to the organisation’s objectives.
• Review the capability, capacity and performance of the Kent Fire and Rescue Service workshop and maintenance processes/systems to successfully deliver and continuously improve against the business requirements.
• Evaluate and critically assess standards and quality of service issues relating to workshop and maintenance operations, scrutinising performance, managing investigations to reduce risks and fleet downtime.
• Review and implement fleet policy changes to ensure legal compliance and efficiency of service, directly linking with customers to focus activities on operational priorities that support service delivery.
• To lead and be responsible on legal compliance ensuring that that the workshop/technicians operate in accordance with Health and Safety and other associated regulations.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrable leadership in a workshop/maintenance environment, maintaining and improving colleague morale, and managing development and performance.
• Experienced at workload and resource planning, monitoring, and prioritisation to deliver manage the ongoing maintenance of the Service fleet to ensure that it is safe and compliant.
• Experienced at delivering efficiencies in a workshop/maintenance environment whilst maintaining and improving standards.
• Experience in managing budgets and understanding direct and indirect consequences of financial decisions.
• Be familiar with the principles of heavy vehicle operations including those required by a Certificate of Professional Competence holder.
• Ability to provide technical and analytical support to the Fleet and Equipment Services Team and other customers. Be able to translate complex technical concepts into language that is understood by non-technical colleagues.

Benefits

• Automatic membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme

• Hybrid working
• Blue Light Card discount scheme
• A range of family friendly policies including promoting work-life balance
• Access to health and wellbeing services and advice
• Access to LinkedIn learning online training
• Free parking
• Above all, you’ll become part of a Service that is committed to the safety of our community

How to apply

Please complete an online application and CV by midnight on 15^th September 2024.

Interviews will take place on 30^th September 2024, 1^st October 2024 or

2^nd October 2024.

Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to create the best working environment that we can possibly offer.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service, its employees and volunteers, are committed to safeguarding, protecting and supporting children, young people and adults at risk. As part of our safer recruitment process, we will undertake pre-employment checks to verify your suitability for the role. These checks will include your references and a standard or enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Enhanced DBS check with barred lists are carried out for roles with direct and unsupervised access to children, young people and adults at risk. Risk assessments will be undertaken on any disclosures identified as part of the pre-employment checks.

As a Public Sector organisation with added responsibilities under the Equality Act, 2010 the candidate must demonstrate an understanding of what is meant by Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and how this fits in with their everyday work.