Mhe Fleet Engineering Manager
CurrentI manage a fleet of over 5000 pieces of MHE (fork lift trucks and pallet trucks) and 9000 lead acid batteries for Tesco Distribution. - I am the go to person in the company for MHE.> Key responsibilities : -I manage all aspects of procurement of MHE from the replacement schedule, budgeting, specification, price negotiation and writing the supporting business case.- I produce annual P&L maintenance, lease and damage revenue budgets for each of the 32 Tesco distribution centres.- I model equipment usage within the depots and work with depot managers to assure the most cost effective fleet size and mix are in place.- I manage the MHE maintenance contacts to ensure that the equipment is safe and legal, the agreed uptime KPI's are being met and that all servicing is completed on schedule.- I write supporting training material, policy and procedures, safe systems of work and risk assessments.- I work closely with cross functional project teams to offer technical support and to ensure that equipment is provided on time and as cost effective as possible. I have supplied equipment to support the opening of a total of 10 depots supporting a period of network realignment and growth.- I have worked with the management team in Tesco Central Europe supporting them while they opened a new depot and setup MHE maintenance contracts and ways of working.- I lead projects to achieve savings assuring Tesco distribution meet their cost savings objectives.- I provide support to each depot on day to day issues.- I manage a fleet of 500 mothballed trucks that can be called off to supplement the depot fleet sizes at peak or to support projects as and when required.