Group Engineering Director

Group Engineering Director focuses on overseeing at a strategic level the support provided by the engineering department to the group’s operations control centre, resolving escalated issues where they occur.

What the role involves

• Overseeing at a strategic level the support provided by the Engineering department to the Group’s Operations Control Centre, resolving escalated issues where they occur.
• Ensure that accurate records are maintained of all vehicle maintenance activities, including proactive.
• Preventative maintenance, and servicing, using the TMSOps system.

Skills and requirements

• Transport Made Simple has a medium term aspiration to achieve Earned Recognition status, and the postholder will be required to implement the engineering aspects of this.
• HGV engineering experience is not a pre-requisite.
• Education to Degree level in a relevant subject.
• PSV or HGV Transport Manager Certificate of Professional Competence.

Confirmed role details

• Our Central Connect local bus network has an annual ridership of more than 10 million passengers, delivered in partnership with sixteen Local Transport Authorities.

Candidate fit

• Commercially minded, with the ability to deliver sustainable revenue growth.
• Able to communicate clearly in writing and by telephone.

Additional role context

• We’re a team of 800 colleagues, with a fleet of 400 buses, coaches and minibuses, and we operate from a strategic network of depots across East Anglia, the Midlands and Greater Lon.
• We operate six workshops across Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, each with an Engineering Manager or Engineering Supervisor in place.
• These supervisory colleagues report in to two Heads of Engineering, each with defined geographic scopes.