Fleet Coordinator

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role will be within our Metering team, you’ll join the leading provider of metering services and data collection in the UK energy retail sector, we provide efficient and flexible services for gas, electricity and water meters.

Our meter engineers install, maintain and manage meters to make sure customers are billed correctly and energy usage patterns are monitored. We leverage our industry expertise and data insight capabilities to create solutions that fit the needs of our customers.

Reporting to the Logistics & Fleet Manager as a Fleet Coordinator you will be responsible for on and off boarding activity of our fleet whilst managing relationships, particularly with our plant and fleet team, recruitment and our logistics provider in relation to new starters.

This role is a fantastic opportunity, ideally for someone with a logistic or planning background, to really make a difference within the business. We are looking for a forward thinking, inquisitive individual who is always looking to continuously improve processes and identify cost savings within the organisation.

This role is office based but has the opportunity for hybrid working doing 3 days in the Newcastle office and 2 days from home. The successful candidate will have the option of working either 8am-4pm or 9am-5pm each day. There may be occasions where Saturday working is required and a day off through the week will be provided.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

• Monitor overall fleet performance and identify any areas of under performance
• Manage operational performance in relation to new starter requirements
• Ensure information is logged correctly per driver and updated on tracker systems
• Liaise with the recruitment team to understand and react to requirements
• Manage business leavers effectively and smoothly to support with vehicle collection, PPE and tools etc
• Recording of the condition of vehicles on issue and collection
• Point of contact for any repair approvals, short term hire needs, replacement vehicles
• Review of driver performance and effectively logging data such as penalty notices, damage, driving style etc
• Manage parking accounts and similar to ensure vehicles are added/removed timely
• Review monthly costs and provide reporting to the wider business

What you’ll bring

• Previous experience in a logistic or planning role is essential
• Efficient with MS Excel to an advanced level
• Highly organised and able to prioritise
• Positive attitude to all tasks being motivated and proactive
• The ability to look for continual improvements and have the confidence to suggest new ways of working
• Good judgement and able to make good decisions in limited timescales
• Strong problem solving abilities
• Strong client and customer focus

What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• 25 days plus bank holidays

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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