Fleet Project Manager

The Vacancy

🚛 Fleet Project Manager

Telematics Rollout & Procurement

12‑month Fixed‑Term Contract, Full Time

📍 National role – Hybrid working with weekly travel to sites
🏢 Main office: Finsbury Park (Northern base)
📌 Key locations: Manchester, Liverpool, London, South Wales, Havant
🚗 Travel: Weekly site travel (approx. once per week)

🔷 The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced Fleet Project Manager to lead a nationwide telematics rollout across a fleet of 1,700 vehicles.

This is a hands‑on delivery role, responsible for orchestrating the transition to a new telematics and camera supplier — managing installations, coordinating locations and stakeholders, and embedding the foundations for a driver behaviour improvement programme.

The rollout is already underway (several hundred vehicles completed, with ~500 by month end), so you’ll step into a live, high‑profile programme with clear momentum and visibility.

🎯 What You’ll Be Doing

🚀 Telematics Rollout (Primary Focus)

• Lead the end‑to‑end delivery of a national telematics and camera changeover programme
• Coordinate install schedules across multiple depots and regions, minimising vehicle downtime
• Act as the central point between sites, managers, drivers, and installation partners
• Own planning, communications, and logistics to ensure a smooth and consistent rollout
• Transition from hardware installation into software utilisation and insight generation
• Support the launch of driver behaviour monitoring and coaching initiatives

🔄 Change, Communication & Engagement

• Develop and deliver clear, practical rollout communications for managers and drivers
• Engage frontline teams to ensure understanding, buy‑in, and adoption
• Work closely with Fleet, Operations, HSE, IT, HR and suppliers to remove blockers
• Support policy updates relating to telematics usage and driver safety

📊 Data, Safety & Benefits Realisation

• Ensure accurate capture and use of telematics data post‑installation
• Support improvements in driver safety, fuel usage, idling, and compliance
• Track progress against rollout milestones, benefits, and KPIs
• Provide updates to senior stakeholders on delivery and outcomes

✅ About You

Experience & Background

• Proven experience in project management within time‑bound, operational environments
• Fleet management and telematics experience is essential
• Understanding of driver behaviour monitoring and fleet safety programmes
• Comfortable managing national, multi‑site rollouts with multiple stakeholders

Skills & Strengths

• Strong planning, coordination, and communication skills
• Confident working with depot managers, drivers, suppliers, and senior leaders
• Pragmatic, organised, and delivery‑focused
• Able to balance structure with pace in a live operational environment

Qualifications

• Formal project management qualifications are beneficial but experience is key

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.