Fleet Engineering Manager

DCC plc; Leicester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy supplier in the UK is seeking a Fleet Engineering Manager to enhance fleet operations and ensure reliability and safety. The role involves leading a maintenance team, managing vehicle performance, and ensuring compliance with transport legislation. Candidates should have experience in vehicle engineering, excellent communication skills, and a valid HGV mechanic qualification. This position offers a discretionary bonus, enhanced pension scheme, and 25 holidays plus bank holidays.

Benefits

Discretionary Bonus

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Health plans and wellbeing support

25 holidays plus bank holidays

Enhanced Family Friendly Leave

Qualifications

• Experience of working successfully in a fleet engineering role.
• High level of IT literacy.
• Comfortable with pace and fluidity.
• Able to produce and deliver PowerPoint presentations.

Responsibilities

• Promote a positive safety culture in line with safety first principles.
• Conduct investigations into vehicle/safety issues.
• Lead and line manage the Fleet Maintenance team.
• Manage vehicle breakdowns and workshop performance.
• Develop relationships with key suppliers.
• Maintain effective relationships with other functions.

Skills

Experience of vehicle engineering/maintenance

Sound understanding of transport legislation

Excellent communication skills

Qualified HGV Mechanic

Intermediate/Advanced Excel skills

Job description

How you’ll power our business as a Fleet Engineering Manager

As a Fleet Engineering Manager, you will play a critical role in powering the performance, safety, and reliability of our fleet operations. With your technical expertise and leadership you’ll drive a proactive safety culture, lead investigations into fleet‑related incidents, and ensure our maintenance strategy keeps vehicles on the road and operating at their best. You’ll lead a dedicated team, oversee day‑to‑day workshop operations, and manage supplier performance to ensure quality, compliance, and cost efficiency. Through your leadership, our fleet will run smarter, safer, and stronger—delivering exceptional service and driving business growth.

Here’s what you’ll be going

Promote a positive safety culture in line with safety first principles including leading and supporting investigations into fleet related incidents.

To conduct relevant investigations into vehicle/safety issues providing technical leadership and expertise.

Lead and line manage the Fleet Maintenance team, including recruitment, development and engagement.

Lead the operation of the maintenance team; managing vehicle breakdowns, workshop performance and planned gas maintenance.

To manage key suppliers on their performance and improvement, and develop best practice.

Ensuring effective relationships are maintained between the department and colleagues in other functions (including Planning, Operations, and Sales).

What we’ll need from you

• Experience of vehicle engineering/maintenance.
• Experience of working successfully in a fleet engineering role.
• Sound understanding of transport legislation, compliance and regulatory issues.
• High level of IT literacy.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Comfortable with pace and fluidity.
• Qualified HGV Mechanic.
• Intermediate/Advanced Excel skills.
• Able to produce and deliver PowerPoint presentations.

Whatyou’llget from us

• Discretionary Bonus.
• Enhanced Pension Scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• EAP (Employee Assistant Plan).
• Health plans, wellbeing support, free flujabsand Eye Care Vouchers.
• Extensive discounts from loved brands and major retailers.
• 25 holidays + bank holidays with 1 additional volunteering day. *pro‑rated based on contracted hours.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Leave.

Flogas: Powered by people

At Flogas, we do energy right by hundreds of thousands of customers across Britain who live, work, relax or holiday off‑grid. Powered by people like you, we connect them to the energy they need, when and where they need it. With the backing of the global Group DCC, we’ve grown over the last 35 years to become one of the largest suppliers of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) in the country. Now we’re investing heavily in new infrastructure and innovations, so we can deliver 100% renewable energy to our customers by 2040 – and a career with a bright future to you.

Doing right by everyone

People matter at Flogas. We’re an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background. We’re committed to doing right by our people, so we all feel engaged, motivated and proud to work for Flogas.