About Us

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

About the Role

Job Purpose

We are looking for a fleet auditor reporting directly to the Operations Manager. Our fleet audit team is a vital link between our Bridgestone Partner service providers and our fleet customers. We are the UK branch of Bridgestone Europe NV/SA based in our very modern offices at Tachbrook Park, Warwick.

This role will be located within the M25.

Responsibilities:

You will prepare and complete a monthly management report in detail, which will be sent to both Bridgestone & Veolia senior management. Your time must be split and prioritized into 3 categories – Auditing (50%) Training (20%) Reporting (30%).

• To audit every Veolia workshop location on a regularly defined rota (and/or Veolia customer premises agreed with your manager).
• To identify areas of in-efficiency or waste within the locations which have an impact of the tyre costs within the contract.
• To value the specific areas of waste and report back to your manager with a proposal of action to address key areas.
• To show and demonstrate these findings to the local Veolia workshop management and agree a training plan for either Veolia or Bridgestone Partner dealer personnel to improve these key areas.
• To check all removed casings at Veolia or allocated Bridgestone Partner dealer locations and ensure they have been removed as per the national tyre policy.
• Where tyres have been changed prematurely our outside of contract, to arrange allocated dealer to re-fit free of charge or populate sundry invoice for re-charge for loss of tread (send to your manager for approval).
• To identify removed casings which can be suitably repaired or regrooved and re-distributed to Veolia workshop.
• To identify casings that can be used for the Defleet process.
• To carry out casing inspections at our casing collectors or Bandag franchisee, to identify tyres which have been returned prematurely.
• To have any such tyres segregated and discuss with your line manager how we proceed (re-distribution, re-fit, re-charge).

• Ensure all movements are logged and reported to Veolia senior management for analysis and support monthly.
• Training and advising the Veolia workshops Managers in areas such as premature tyre removal, fitment of part worn stock & tyre management, importance of tyre pressures and MOT preparation.
• Work with each Veolia location so that they can self-audit and self-manage the process in the future.
• Identify training requirements for Bridgestone Partner dealers, fitting staff or dealer principles to work to our agreed procedures within the contract.
• Identify report on and mitigate any matters that might represent a risk to the business. 
• The role may include occasional weekend working.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Education, Master, other certification:

• A full driving license is essential – you will be provided with a company van.

Technical Skills:

• Methodical and thorough approach to work, with particular emphasis on attention to detail
• Willingness to learn and not being afraid to question or challenge existing procedures.
• Experience in Microsoft products.

Soft/Behavioral Skills:

• High commitment to customer service levels, with a professional telephone manner
• The ability to liaise and communicate effectively.
• The ability to work unsupervised and on own initiative.
• The ability to work to targets and timescale, with high standards when it comes to quality.
• Being results orientated.
• Team player essential

Why should you apply?

• We are passionate about our people and want to offer them the opportunity to develop and grow, you never stop learning.
• You will have the possibility to develop yourself via our learning management system that is also connected to LinkedIn Learning
• You will have the opportunity to experience a dynamic and challenging environment and work on different, innovative projects using with leading technologies.
• We help you to drive your career path onward and upward, working in a culture of feedback that recognizes you and helps your development.
• You will work in a healthy and safety environment, because safety is a key priority area in Bridgestone.
• You will have the opportunity to participate in our corporate social responsibility activities.
• We offer you attractive benefits, a competitive salary a pension contribution scheme, smart working to ensure a good work/life balance, and 4 weeks annual leave.

If you can demonstrate the skills we are looking for and would like to make a difference in a pioneering company dedicated to shaping a sustainable future of real-world mobility solutions, come and join us at Bridgestone!

Process Next Steps: All applications will be reviewed. Our HR team will contact those applicants who we would like to invite for the next stage of the recruitment process.