Depot Manager

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.

What you’ll be doing as a Depot Manager

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

Location - Crossness STW, Abbey Wood, London
45 hours a week between the hours of 6 am and 6 pm, Monday to Friday

What you should bring to the role:
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:

• Experience in logistics or management at another water utility or large company.
• Work collaboratively, being able to work closely across the business and with suppliers and 3rd parties.
• Excellent leadership qualities with outstanding managerial experience. You will be technically experienced with a good understanding of Inventory, Supply Chain and Scheduling processes.
• Be meticulous in documenting the finer details.
• Be process-driven with the ability to write processes to deliver the service reliably.
• Competent with IT systems.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

What’s in it for you?

• Offering up to £50,000 per annum, depending on experience and skills.
• Car allowance of £4,500 per annum
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 28 days per year, with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your well-being.

Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&Cs apply if on secondment)

Who are we?
We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job, and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Learn more about our purpose and values.

Working at Thames Water
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no two days are the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else, just let us know; we’re here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.

Disclaimer: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.