Fleet Manager
Operational Engineering and Fleet Management in the Rail Industry
Hybrid West Coast with UK-wide travel
£50,000 - £60,000 + Bonus + Excellent Bens
My client is delivering and operating a world-class fleet of trains for the UK rail industry that will provide unbeatable performance, reliability, and value for money. They now require a Fleet Manager to provide operational engineering for the West Coast fleet which will require ownership and management of all business-as-usual fleet technical workstreams and effective fleet asset management of the fleet.
The Fleet Manager will be responsible for:
* Discharging the company’s engineering obligations, consents, and responsibilities in all operational dealings.
* Represent the company’s engineering interests in technical and key stakeholder forums.
* Work collaboratively with the Ops team to ensure optimum operational performance and service delivery.
* Proactively lead and manage the company’s interests in fleet asset condition, completing and reporting on Asset Inspections to the senior management team.
* Ensure technical decisions made regarding the Fleets are considered in a timely manner, liaising where required with colleagues where impacts are arising are identified and are required to be managed.
* Advising on risks, opportunities, contractual and commercial considerations arising from technical changes or developments.
The successful candidate will:
* Qualified Electrical/Mechanical/Software Engineer.
* Knowledge of the Railway, Motor, Aviation, Mass transportation or aerospace industry preferred.
* Ability to work collaboratively with the rest of the team and extensive stakeholders.
* Well-developed interpersonal skills and a self-starter, able to work under own initiative.
* An enthusiasm to drive business and and performance improvement.
* Ideally have knowledge of UK railway regulations
In return for your skills and experience you can expect to join a small, dynamic and high-performing team of professionals managing one of the UK’s most prestigious and high profile rail programmes.