About the job

Job summary

HMNB Clyde is home to the United Kingdom’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, Astute Class Submarines, First Mine Counter Measure Squadron and 43 Cdo Royal Marines. It is an operational support and maintenance base, within the Navy Command TLB and comprises both Faslane and Coulport sites. HMNB Clyde’s primary purpose is to provide engineering and logistical support to the Royal Navy in maintaining Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD). This is achieved by ensuring at least one Vanguard Class submarine is on patrol at sea every day of the year.        

HMNB Clyde provides an open, flexible, and supportive work environment where Civil Servants, Armed Forces personnel and Contractors work together in an abundance of operationally focused and exciting roles. We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team as Neptune Asset Support Manager.  This is an employment opportunity to join a vibrant section operating in an often fast-moving environment.          

The position is advertised at 37 hours per week.  

Hybrid working (a blend of working in the workplace and from home) is encouraged. You should expect to work a minimum of 3 days a week in HMNB Clyde in agreement with your Line Manager.    

Job description

Neptune Asset Support Manager (NASM) position lies within the Captain of the Base Dept, leading a small team in providing support, compliance and administration of the Motor Transport (MT) within the White/Yellow Fleet contract, and the Mechanical Handling Equipment (MHE) within the Naval Base Clyde (NBC) area of responsibility. NASM will liaise directly with the Contract Management Team (CMT), Service Delivery Group (SDG), the Service Provider and the end users in relation to all transport requirements.

The role has delegated financial authority and budgetary control for expenditure on all aspects of White/Yellow Fleet (WF/YF), including In-Year and forward 10 year forecast of requirements.

Key Responsibilities

As the focal point for all Motor Transport support and compliance at HMNB Clyde, NASM is responsible for ensuring all MT assets are operated and maintained as required under government regulations; generating all local MT Policy and ensure processes are in place to monitor compliance.

The role must liaise closely with Industrial Partners and contractors across site, responding to urgent requirements to meet operational needs.

NASM controls budgetary expenditure against the WF/YF contract, scrutinising and authorising costs in relation to accident damage, reviews asset levels and additional requirements, and formalises the budget provision for the 10 year bid to ensure all assets, uplifts and increases are captured.
The position is also required to authorise & control the MT ePC (credit card) for MT transactions out-with agreed contracts.

As part of the Government Green Initiative, NASM is responsible for the transition from petrol/diesel assets to electric vehicles (EV), ensuring asset utilisation and distribution aligns with the Infrastructure programme for EV charging stations.

Person specification

Individuals should be motivated to meet customer needs while ensuring compliance.  This will be demonstrated through utilising strong interpersonal skills, engaging and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, and planning to deliver short and long term outputs.  

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,528 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.

Sift is provisionally planned to take place week 1st July with interviews planned for week 15 July. This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours

Making Effective Decisions

Managing a Quality Service

Working Together

Communicating & Influencing

 

We will assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Making Effective Decisions

Managing a Quality Service

Working Together

Communicating and Influencing

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.