Fleet Depot Operations Manager in Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Morson Talent are recruiting for a Fleet Depot Operations Manager to join a leading player in the transportation industry based in Birmingham.
Purpose of the role:
The Fleet Depots Operations Manager is responsible for the safe and punctual rolling stock operations at Fleet depots. Reporting to the Depot Manager, the role is also accountable for the day to day management of all Operations Team staff, including Shunters and Team Leaders.
The Fleet Depots Operations Manager is responsible for maintaining close relationships with the Depot Driver Operations team, Safety Team and Operational Standards Team, ensuring that the operational procedures and managed and competency management is robust. The role will also act at a strategic level, ensuring that the Operations Team and facility is reactive to changing infrastructure and delivery of new rolling stock.
Required Skills Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications Required:
Educated to a Degree level in an operational, business or management discipline.
Demonstrable experience in Trade Union engagement, including local TU relationships, negotiation and challenging discussion.
A visionary leader who is able to look beyond day to day operations for improvements and inspire and motivate teams to achieve their potential
You will have extensive practical operations management experience in a successful engineering environment. Knowledge of production engineering systems, financial and contract management systems will also be highly beneficial for success.
Strong experience of people management in a unionised production environment. Experience of managing a close relationship with Trade Unions, holding challenging conversations, negotiating and adapting to different people requirements.
Demonstrable experience of asset performance regimes management, including financial acumen and budgetary management.
A strong communicator with the proven ability to lead and motivate a diverse team.
Excellent written, verbal and numerical skills.
Demonstrable experience in contractual areas of commercial acumen and an ability to manage and negotiate contracts with clients and suppliers.
Experience of railway rolling stock operational management including planning and depot beat rates and technical discipline is essential.
IOSHH, NEBOSH or an equivalent health and safety qualification would be advantageous.
Demonstrable experience of managing a safety critical function, including operational Competency Management Systems (CMS), incident management, incident and accident investigation and operational procedural documentation.
This role carries on-call responsibility
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