Location
Crossness STW, Abbey Wood, South East London

Hours
45 hours per week between 6 am and 6 pm, Monday to Friday

Salary
Up to £50,000 per annum, depending on experience and skills

About the Role
As the Depot Manager, you will provide first-class leadership to deliver a high-tempo, resilient inventory capability across the entire Thames Water region. Drawing on your extensive experience in scheduling, transport, delivery operations, and warehouse stock control, you will ensure stock integrity, availability, and accuracy to fully support operational delivery. You will be accountable for ensuring operational teams receive the right fittings, equipment, and materials at the right time, enabling work to be completed safely, efficiently, and first time. This includes providing robust and reliable delivery commitments to the business by coordinating the timely supply of barriers and SLG ancillaries, aligned to work programmes, while also enabling effective plant deployment and asset recovery.

Key responsibilities include:
- Providing leadership and direction to the Inventory Operations teams and the Driving team
- Ensuring equipment and critical stores are received, delivered, and collected on time, meeting quality objectives and delivery deadlines
- Providing real-time visibility of equipment and critical stores holdings through SAP accounting and active stocktaking
- Ensuring full compliance with all transport legislation, including Driver’s Regulations & Working Time Directive, in line with O license legislation and company procedures
- Managing the budget and maintaining statistical and financial records across all workstreams
- Resource and transport planning through task scheduling and delivery programmes
- Collaborating with the Logistics Operating team to maintain the Out of Hours call rota to ensure assets and inventory are available 24/7, 365 days a year
- Effectively managing Performance Indicators across all workstreams including site output, driving times, stock integrity, and Inventory Performance outputs
- Ensuring Health & Safety requirements are met within company and legal frameworks

Experience
Experience in logistics or management at another water utility or large company is essential.

About you
You must be able to work collaboratively across the business and with suppliers and third parties. Excellent leadership qualities with outstanding managerial experience are required. You will be technically experienced with a good understanding of Inventory, Supply Chain, and Scheduling processes. Attention to detail and meticulous documentation skills are important. You should be process-driven with the ability to write processes to deliver reliable service. Competency with IT systems is necessary. A full UK Driving Licence is required.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications are stated, but relevant experience and skills as outlined above are essential.