Mobile Asset Lead

Who are we?
Our client is the UK's largest water and wastewater company. They make a daily difference to over 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km's of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. They are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.

What you'll be doing
As the Plant Hire Coordinator, you will have the responsibility for my clients own internal hire inventory, ensuring operational delivery of plant equipment across the estate and reducing overall costs of external plant hire equipment. As part of this role, you will drive performance and service by proactively identifying utilisation opportunities in support of short-term hire for specific equipment, reducing time waste in repairs, managing stop gap fixes for failures of equipment, supporting customers during scale size events, reducing over hire periods, and providing customer satisfaction. You will engage and build great relationships with key operational colleagues whilst using your enthusiastic approach to lead and motivate other staff to ensure the department utilisation is maximised and first customer service is upheld. Key responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring that all stock assets are managed and ready to deploy at all times
• Providing real time utilisation and visibility of plant inventory and proactive management of hire and de-hire of inventory
• Provide resilient support in other warehouse areas.
• Ensuring equipment is regularly maintained and serviced in line with company guidelines
• Achieving inventory hire benefits and ongoing inventory hire KPI improvements
• Tracking assets using Tracking systems as well as SAP/Excel for accounting and monitoring usage and hire periods
• Engaging with 3rdparties to book out and retrieve hire stock using a timely and complicit process and drive down late returns.
• Carrying out periodic stocktaking to assure the business of stock integrity and security
• Working as part of a wider team in the warehouse when required
• Company van
• 45 hours per week, Monday-Friday
• On call: 1 week in every 6 weeks - On call enhancement, call out charge and overtime paid where required
• Required to travel to sites on a regular basis

We're looking for you to

• Have experience working within the plant hire industry
• Hold a Full UK driving licence
• Possess MHE Forks licences with Counterbalance and Reach/Telehandler
• Have experience with SAP or an alternative inventory asset tracking system
• Be proficient with Excel
• Have strong commercial and financial acumen
• Be a self-starter, with the ability to work in a decentralised team

For further information, please email

Ref: TWMAL_1646135371 | Published: 01th Mar 2022