Transport Watchkeeper

**Are you looking for a challenge in Transport Services? How about an exciting role supporting road transport operations on a Military Estate? You’ll get to assist with delivering Transport Services to our Army customers. Join a great team at Aspire Defence Services**

As a Transport Watchkeeper, you will provide an out of hours vehicle booking service, a transport fleet scheduling function and facilitate an out of hours walk in service for the customer.

You will act as the out of hours point of contact for drivers, customer queries and to deal with reactive transport occurrences.

Other key responsibilities of this role include administering and completing all paperwork associated with the smooth running of the transport operation, including tasking sheets, VUR’s, driver check sheets and driver’s hour’s record cards, and liaising with contract hire and outside repair agencies to facilitate delivery/collection of vehicles, as well as taking responsibility for arranging out of hours driver cover and tasking of the on-call night duty drivers as required.

You’ll be part of a large team of skilled individuals, so to be successful in this role, you must be a team worker with the ability to pay attention to detail, and with demonstrable customer service experience. You should be able to identify customer needs and respond to them appropriately.

**But first, meet the team**

With a 35-year contract, making soldiers’ lives better is at the heart of everything we do at Aspire Defence Services.

Seriously, picture a heart (the real one) and imagine how hard it works to keep the body running, making sure every part gets exactly what it needs to thrive. That’s our mission; to deliver a modern, fully serviced, flexible working environment for soldiers.

And just as the heart needs certain parts to keep the body alive, we need the dedication and commitment of our people to support our customers. We deliver a broad range of services for one-third of the British Army living and working on our patch, and we're proud of the work we do.

We’re all about nurturing great teams, and our award-winning safety and wellbeing initiatives are built on keeping an eye out for one another and having a good work-life balance.

**In addition to being part of our team, you’ll also get**
- 25 days annual leave plus days back if rostered to work bank holidays, as well as the option to buy and sell holiday.
- Contributory Company Pension Plan matched up to 6%, plus individual life assurance.
- A shopping discounts scheme.
- Birthday Day Off Scheme.
- Cycle to Work and Tech Scheme.
- Discounted gym membership at Aldershot and Tidworth Leisure Centre.
- Employee assistance and health and wellbeing check ins.
- Reward and recognition to celebrate outstanding achievements.
- Free on-site parking

**Ready to join the team?**

You must be IT Literate and have a current Category B Licence (Car) with no endorsements. It would be additionally desirable to have a Licence Category’s D1 minibus but not essential.

**Salary: up to £28,800 per annum**

**Location: Larkhill**

**Please note: Our garrisons are tobacco free working environments. As part of this role, you will be required to obtain security clearance prior to starting with us.