About this role
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Fleet Operations Coordinator (18-month Fixed Term Contract)
Location – Leicester
What you will be doing
As a Fleet Systems Coordinator, you will play a key role in managing vehicle utilisation across the Group, overseeing vehicle collections, inspections, refurbishment and reallocation. Working closely with fleet colleagues, business units and external suppliers, you’ll manage the end-to-end process from collection through to delivery, ensuring vehicles are safe, compliant and ready for use.
The role also includes membership of the Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP) and access to professional development through industry training and events.
Please note that this is an 18-month Fixed Term Contract to cover maternity leave within the team.
- Coordinate vehicle collections and returns, working closely with employees, People/HR teams and leasing providers.
- Manage the vehicle refurbishment process, ensuring inspections, repairs and reallocations are completed efficiently and in line with agreed service levels.
- Review repair estimates, helping to control costs while maintaining high standards of vehicle quality, safety and compliance.
- Support the allocation and reallocation of vehicles, ensuring all required documentation and agreements are completed.
- Arrange vehicle deliveries and provide regular reporting on fleet activity and key performance measures.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and enhance the employee experience.
- Support the wider Fleet team with administrative and operational activities as required.
- Promote and maintain compliance with all safety, quality, environmental and management system requirements.
About you
Essential
- Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to provide a positive and professional service to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence in building effective working relationships at all levels.
- Able to work collaboratively as part of a team while also taking ownership of tasks and working independently when required.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise competing demands, identify potential risks and take proactive action using sound judgement and initiative.
Desirable
- Understanding of repair costs.
- Familiarity with fleet, leasing, and rental software such as Key 2.
We welcome applications from people with transferable skills and experience. If you're excited by the role but don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you.
What We Can Offer in Return
With an impressive order book of over £4.3 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.
We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.
We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.
Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.
Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.
Our benefits
We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.
- Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
- A wide range of corporate discounts
- Cycle to Work schemes
- Comprehensive pension plan
- Competitive family leave policy
- Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
- Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
- Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role
About us
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.
Additional Information
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, part-time and / or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage you and would be grateful if you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.
A full job description for this role is available upon request.
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