Tankering Team Leader

Tankering Team Leader

Description:

Why Water?
Without water, life as we know it would be impossible. Every day, we rely on it for drinking, washing and cleaning. It helps create the energy we need for heat and light. It’s also essential to the products we enjoy and the natural world we depend upon.
Yet the South East faces a future of more people and less water. Our population is growing fast, and climate change is bringing greater risk of both drought and flooding.
In the water industry, your work will help to address these challenges and give people access to sustainable, high-quality water and wastewater services for decades to come.
The South East is also home to over 700 miles of coastline, two National Parks, four Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and some of the world’s rarest chalk streams. As well as working within these breath-taking environments, your activities will help preserve them for generations to come.

Why Southern Water?
Each day, over four million people across Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight count on us for their essential water or wastewater services. Our work is vital, because we’re providing water for life.
Do you want to make a difference? At Southern Water, you work will help to enhance health and wellbeing, protect and improve the environment and sustain the economy. You’ll also play an important role in helping us deliver a resilient water future for the South East.
Are you a natural collaborator with a strong moral compass and high standards? If so, you’ll fit right in. Everything we do is underpinned by three values: succeeding together, doing the right thing and always improving.
Do you want to bring your authentic self to work every day? We do too. That’s why we’re building an inclusive culture and are proud to offer equal opportunities regardless of age, cultural background, disability, gender, marital status, nationality, political belief, race, religion or sexual orientation. We believe the unique perspectives and experiences each of us brings make us stronger.

About the Role:
Job Title: Tankering Team Leader
Location: Falmer
Perm/FTC: Permanent
Hours: 48 hours per week . 4 days, 4 off, 4 nights, 4 off
Salary: Up to £39,800 per annum depending on skills and experience. Other benefits include shift allowance, up to 11% pension contribution; performance related annual bonus; 25 days holiday plus bank holidays; Perk Box (discount scheme); BUPA health cash plan.

Role Overview:
Southern Water are recruiting for a Tankering Team leader to join our newly established team in Falmer. The Team lead/supervisor is responsible for managing a team of drivers, ensuring they are ready and capable to respond to events/incidents and restore supply via tankering. This includes managing performance of the drivers, leading on operational planning and readiness testing, liaising between the Control Centre and the drivers, and supporting in the field as needed (including driving HGV’s) during tankering jobs. The Team Lead/supervisor works closely with the Transport Manager to ensure the drivers and vehicles remain compliant with all rules and regulations. This position comes with a competitive salary and shift payments plus a comprehensive benefits package including access to business needs only vehicles and eligibility for a company bonus.

Accountabilities and Estimated Time Spent
1. Manage people and performance within team of drivers and drive continuous improvement 15%
2. Oversee in house and outsourced maintenance, and ensure tankers and equipment kept in a state of operational readiness 15%
3. Drive response preparedness through contingency planning, fill/injection point assessments and readiness testing (running exercises) 15%
4. Lead tankering response from a field perspective during emergency response and planned work support, including driving and operating a tanker when required 40%
5. Provide, maintain and audit (where required) accurate records for regulatory and compliance purposes; this includes sampling, health and safety, driver hours, vehicle maintenance and inspections 10%
6. Monitor operational performance and ensure compliance to all policies, processes and procedures, implementing disciplinary processes as required, in order to deliver a high quality service to customers 5%

Person Specification:
We are looking for somebody who has experience in people and performance management and the ability to manage internal external stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have experience in leading a team of drivers, who has and continuously enjoys being able to inspire and promote positivity to the rest of the team. The role requires a person who can be assertive, who has excellent interpersonal skills and can handle difficult situations or people. You will be well versed in health and safety regulations, vehicle maintenance and planning and prioritising workloads. If this sounds like your ideal role and you have the required driving qualifications, we would love to hear from you.

Qualifications and skillset
Essential
• Full, valid driving licence (category CE), clean driving licence with no points/convictions desirable, maximum 6 penalty points and no DG, DR, DD or IN convictions
• Full Driver CPC qualification
• 5+ years experience driving and operating tankers (preferable) or HGVs
• Experience in people and performance management
• Willing to work rotational shift pattern

Desirable
• Experience of working in water/wastewater industry
• Calm network trained and a EUSR Water Hygiene Card (Blue Card) holder
• Additional driver training qualifications e.g. advanced driver training/Institute of Advanced Motoring
• Excellent understanding of Transport Law, Working Time Directive, Driver Hour rules
• Strong understanding of vehicle inspection, defect reporting, and maintenance requirements
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, exchanging information and communicating in a clear and concise way
• Highly competent in Microsoft Office suite and use of Google Cloud applications
• Ability to deliver to deadlines/targets and manage own work, with excellent organisational and time management skills
• Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail
• Confident decision maker
• Self-starter

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