Senior Workshop Supervisor

Senior Workshop Supervisor

Location: Lambeth, Surrey, SE24 0PZ

Salary: £49,000 - £53,000 plus excellent benefits

Schedule: 40 hours per week

Ready to impact a better future?

As the Senior Workshop Supervisor in our Enabling Services team, you’ll lead day-to-day workshop operations to keep our fleet safe, efficient, and available – so colleagues can deliver essential services that positively impact communities.

You’ll support our mission to create sustainable value by driving workshop performance, improving efficiencies, and ensuring our fleet remains compliant, reliable, and ready to deliver. Your work will help shape safer roads, better services, and a future where innovation supports real world impact.

What you’ll do as a Workshop Supervisor

You’ll be entrusted to:

• Lead the daily operation of the vehicle workshop, allocating workload and ensuring compliance with Operator Licence obligations.
• Maintain, service, and manage the vehicle fleet in line with OEM guidelines, internal maintenance standards, and legal requirements.
• Manage vehicle maintenance quality, costs, and third party providers to secure value for money and high quality outcomes.
• Monitor and improve workshop efficiency, championing continuous improvement and innovation across the team.
• Support fleet availability targets, procurement activity, safety initiatives, and training needs across the workshop team.

Does this sound like you?

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Industry recognised qualifications such as City and Guilds or NVQ Level 3 in Heavy Vehicle Maintenance and Repair.
• A solid understanding of UK and EU road transport legislation, including Goods MOT requirements and Construction and Use regulations.
• Experience as a Workshop Supervisor, ideally within the Waste and Recycling sector.
• Knowledge of municipal and specialist vehicles, including hydraulics and electric powered vehicles.
• A Cat C driving licence and Driver CPC (DQC).

Vetting and checks:
As well as checking eligibility to work in the UK, you will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to help us identify and provide any support you may need to undertake the role effectively.

Discover all you need to keep growing
We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays (and the option to buy up to five additional leave days each year)
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.  We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

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Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. 

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.  For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
 

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.