Regional Fleet Engineer

Company Description

• Contract Type: Permanent / 40 Hours Per Week
• Salary: £48,976.09 plus Car or Cash Alternative and Bonus
• Location: DPD Newcastle, Armstrong Rd, Washington NE37 1PR
• Days of Work: Monday to Friday
• Hours of Work: 08:00 - 17:00

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 nearly £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. 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

Purpose of Position

In this position you will be responsible for ensuring our vehicles that are being used are safe and legally compliant. You will also be upskilling depot staff in the safe use of equipment, and ensuring that they are aware of the company defect and booking procedures.

Key Task & Responsibilities

• Looking at supplier performance, and monitoring, associated services, and cost as well as auditing the quality of work
• Carrying out weight checks, fleet checks, and site inspections
• Identifying key areas and causes of vehicle damage and work with the Depot Management Team to devise strategies to reduce damage sustained
• Ensuring all suppliers of vehicle related goods and services meet company requirements, in terms of cost and legal compliance (including health and safety considerations)

Qualifications

What we're looking for;

• As the successful candidate you will have extensive vehicle mechanical knowledge, and demonstrable experience within the transport sector
• We would also expect;
• Ability to carry out internal audits
• Strong financial awareness
• Strong decision making and problem solving skills
• The ability to engage and build strong working relationships with employees and suppliers
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• A great team player who demonstrates the core DPD DNA values of Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Caring and Accountability

Job Specifics

Travel around the region will be an essential part of this role as well as some overnight stays

• Therefore you must hold a Full UK Driving Licence with Category B/LGV and preferably Category C1
• You will have a comprehensive induction to DPD, this will include both a corporate induction followed by a thorough induction of our Hubs and wider Network Operation

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
• Unum - essential health and wellbeing services for all employees and eligible family members
• Discounted shopping from 100's of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
• Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
• For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer 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.

If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you Apply today.