Vehicle Checker/fleet Administrator

5 days ago

Dunstable, United Kingdom DPD Group UK Full time

Company Description
- ** Contract**: Full Time / 37.5 Hours per week.
- ** Salary**: £10.59ph plus overtime paid at enhanced rates.
- ** Location**:DPD Dunstable, Humphrys Road, Woodside Ind Est, Dunstable, LU5 4TP
- ** Days of Work**: Monday to Friday
- ** Hours of Work**:06:00 start time.

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of over £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible.

When joining DPD you are not just starting a job, you are vital to our journey to be the most customer centric, inclusive, sustainable and leading parcel delivery provider within the UK who embraces and drives change, placing our people and our customers at the heart of what we do.

Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer

**Job Description**:
As our Vehicle Checker /Fleet Administrator your key objective is to ensure that all vehicles are checked for condition and road worthiness in terms of legal, corporate image and operational compliance, with exceptions to be reported via the vehicle check app and defect procedure.

**Key Daily Checks**
- To check all fleet vehicles including rental vehicles on a daily basis and record the check and condition via the Vehicle App.
- Vehicle Checker/Fleet Administrator to VOR vehicles if damage found or defective.
- To check all associated vehicle equipment, including MHE, jump packs, fuel pumps and enclosure.
- Check the site for cleanliness and clear traffic flow/maneuvering areas and associated parking areas.

**Key Weekly Checks**
- Check all Owner Driver vehicles once a week including leased and owned
- If damage is found on the Owner Driver vehicle, a 21 day notice is populated via the app.
- Record all 21 day notices/7 day notices into a Google Calendar shared with your Transport Team.
- Review any outstanding 21 day notice letters due with the Depot Quality Manager or Depot manager
- Check Fleet Stock (mirror glasses, lamps, bulbs etc) and reorder as required.
- Ensure that the gritter is in full working order and clean, during the winter period. Report any defects to your Regional Transport Engineer.

**Qualifications**:
**What we’re looking for**

You will be someone who takes pride in their work consistently producing work of a high quality. Your strong communication, listening and problem resolution skills will be fully utilised in this role. We would also expect you to have:

- Good planning and organising skills
- Ability to prioritise and manage your time effectively
- Ability to cope with change
- Ability to handle difficult situation and challenging conversations
- Able to work in a systematic, methodical and orderly way following all depot instructions and procedures to include all regulatory requirements e.g Health and Safety
- Able to work on your own initiative and without close supervision

Additional Information
**About our benefits**:
We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few
- Holiday trading
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
- Free onsite car parking for all employees
- Health Kiosks visiting every location
- Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
- Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
- Free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.

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