Location
Crossness STW, Abbey Wood, 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.

You will provide leadership and direction to the Inventory Operations and Driving teams, ensuring equipment and critical stores are received, delivered, and collected on time, meeting quality objectives and delivery deadlines. You will maintain real-time visibility of equipment and critical stores holdings through SAP accounting and active stocktaking. Compliance with all transport legislation, including Driver’s Regulations & Working Time Directive, O license legislation, and company procedures, is essential.

Additional responsibilities include managing budgets, maintaining statistical and financial records, resource and transport planning through task scheduling and delivery programmes, and working 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. You will effectively manage 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 is a key part of the role.

Benefits
26 days holiday per year, increasing to 28 days with length of service (plus bank holidays), contributory pension scheme (Defined Contribution - maximum of 12% with 2x employee contribution), personal medical assessments available annually, performance-related pay linked to company targets, and access to a wider benefits scheme including a benefits hub with offers and wellbeing support.

Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, serving over 16 million customers. We are committed to building a better future for our customers, communities, people, and the planet. Working at Thames Water offers meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and excellent benefits. We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion and provide support throughout the recruitment process.

Experience
- Proven experience in logistics or management within a water utility or large company.
- Strong leadership and managerial experience with a technical understanding of Inventory, Supply Chain, and Scheduling processes.

About you
- Collaborative team player able to work closely across the business and with suppliers and third parties.
- Meticulous attention to detail and process-driven with the ability to write and implement reliable service processes.
- Competent with IT systems.
- Committed to meeting Health & Safety standards and legal requirements.

Qualifications
- Full UK Driving Licence is essential.