Fleet Technical Officer - London, United Kingdom - London Fire Brigade

London Fire Brigade

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

The London Fire Brigade has the opportunity of a permanent position for a vehicles and equipment Technical Officer within the Fleet and Equipment team based at their Union Street, SE1 0LL headquarters.

The FLEET team is dynamic, lively and fast paced, whilst being collegiate and supportive.

Colleagues pride themselves on delivering best practice fleet and equipment management solutions to a variety of stakeholders as well as meeting the unprecedented procurement demands aimed at future-proofing services.

The team has recently come under new management and is embracing innovation and change initiatives aimed at building operational assurance, strategic resilience and best practice delivery.

This will enable FLEET to meet the Brigades core strategic change plan objectives as well as best respond to Mayoral direction.

It is a full-time role is based at Union Street/Home working and involves occasional travel to any of LFB's fire stations, Ruislip Workshops and strategic partner locations.

LFB have outsourced all vehicle and equipment services to Babcock Critical Services Ltd (the Contractor) who, amongst a wide range of managed services, are responsible for procuring assets and providing a maintenance and repair package for vehicles and equipment.

Amongst your skills you will be expected to be self-motivated, be an effective and supportive team player, provide up to date vehicle & equipment technical information, ensure the contractor provides products that are compliant with LFB's specified requirements, manage projects, have good analytical processes and be part of a 24/7 duty rota engineering support team.

Further information about the main duties and responsibilities of the role are detailed in the job description.

Assessment Overview:

Assessment for this role is due to take place late March/Early April.

Please be advised that if you are unable to make the scheduled assessment date, we may not be able to make alternative arrangements.

Please note:

Should you be shortlisted you may need to be able to conduct an interview over Microsoft Teams (a video conferencing service).

You will be asked to provide relevant contact details for that to take place if shortlisted.

Additional Information:

Benefits of working for LFB

26 days' holiday plus bank holidays
Option Absence Scheme (which can result in an additional 12 days annual leave for staff at this grade)
Flexible working including job share
Welfare Scheme
Use of Brigade Medical Adviser/physios
Season ticket loans
Equality Support Groups
Contributory Pension Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Opportunity to access affordable accommodation