Depot Manager - West London

About Us

CES Power are a leading provider of temporary power solutions, supporting customers across events, touring and industrial sectors. We work on a broad range of projects, from music festivals and tours to film and TV, construction, utilities and much more. We leverage innovative technology and sustainable but powerful solutions to ensure our projects run smoothly and efficiently.

About The Role
As a Depot Manager you will play a key role in the smooth and efficient day-to-day running of all depot operations. You will lead and develop the operations and transport teams to ensure safe, efficient, and customer-focused service delivery, supporting the success of high-profile events across the UK. This role requires a commercially minded leader who can balance operational excellence with business growth, ensuring all processes are delivered safely, efficiently, and profitably.

Responsibilities

Operational Management

• Oversee the depot operations, you will take full responsibility for your designated depot with regards to Sales and Operations
• Be serious about safety, ensuring compliance with all health and safety regulations and company policies and procedures. Conduct regular safety inspections and address any safety issues promptly
• Ensure all transport jobs and orders are allocated correctly on a web-based system
• Monitor the accuracy of the orders input to ensure that disputes are kept to a minimum
• Ensure procedure manual compliance including audit compliance
• To make full use of all information and communication technologies to meet the requirements of the
• Take full responsibility for the operational performance and commercial success of your designated depot, ensuring seamless coordination of sales and operations activities
• People Management
• Provide leadership and guidance to team members including engineers and drivers, ensuring the depot and customer service standards are maintained in line with company’s expectations.
• Foster a positive and inclusive work environment, train, motivate and develop your team members to deliver outstanding results.
• Conduct monthly 1-2-1 reviews with team members, and set KPI’s for your team, ensuring these are achieved or exceeded.
• Promote teamwork between colleagues across all depot locations, to ensure productive delivery of an effective workshop performance.
• Ensure that a professional support service is delivered to field sales staff and develop a strong working relationship with the Foreman, Senior Management and the Sales Team.

Stock Management

• Prepare and submit weekly reports on the depot performance, and stock levels.
• Monitor and manage stock levels by undertaking assets checks, stock transfers and item inventory
• Ensure all cross hired items are accounted for and regular checks are carried out.
• Manage a high-volume depot holding a substantial inventory of cable, distribution and event infrastructure equipment supporting large-scale events.
• Maintain a high level of organisation and accuracy across all assets, ensuring equipment is correctly stored, tracked, prepared and returned.
• Implement and maintain robust stock control processes to manage large quantities of equipment and minimise loss, damage or discrepancies.
• Adopt a structured and methodical approach to logistics planning and depot workflows to ensure operational readiness at all times.
• Support the fast-paced requirements of the events team by ensuring equipment availability, efficiency and reliability.

Customer Relationships and Support

• Provide excellent communication to customers and stakeholders, strive to improve customer satisfaction, and build strong customer relationships.
• Demonstrate ability to professionally resolve customer-related problems, service issues and invoice queries.
• Represent the company and values of the business and portray a professional and businesslike image to all customers, potential customers and other people you meet in the course of your work.
  Commercial and Budget Management
• Ensure that we offer an efficient and cost-effective delivery/collection service through the day-to-day management of transport.
• Manage depot budgets and control costs while maintaining service quality and efficiency.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness by identifying opportunities for cost savings, improved utilisation, and business development.
• Oversee damage recovery, transport efficiency, and supplier spend to maximise profitability.
• Support commercial initiatives and contribute to strategic planning to grow the depot’s market presence.
• Ensure maximum return on damage charges, fuel and transport recovery taking responsibility for all aspects of the process.
• Control workshop budgets ensuring these are not exceeded without prior organisation, and identity cost savings without compromising on quality or efficiency.
• Control all aspects of the ordering system for suppliers and monitor spending.
• Any other ad-hoc duties as defined by management.

About You
         We are looking for someone who:

• Demonstrates professionalism, has proven leadership skills
• Is a great communicator with internal and external customers
• Will take a proactive approach to preventing and problem-solving
• Can identify issues and implement effective decision-making skills
• Displays high attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Willingness to get stuck in whenever possible is adaptable and can be resilient to an ever changing events and industrial environment
• Is self-motivated and can show time management capability

Desirable, but not essential, providing the right candidate has a willingness to learn:

• Knowledge of Power Generation rental market.
• ISOH health and safety 
• Computer/PC and systems use

Don’t feel like you tick every box?
We understand that our ideal candidate may not meet 100% of the role’s criteria. Studies show that women are less likely to apply if they feel they don’t meet 100% of a role’s criteria. We encourage your application and if you have any questions, please email the HR team on intl.hrteam@cespower.com.