Apprentice Fleet Support

About the role

Apprentice in Fleet Support

Are you looking to start your career in administration or fleet management? This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Fleet Team as an Apprentice in Fleet Support, where you’ll gain hands-on experience while working towards a recognised qualification.

As a Apprentice in Fleet Support, you’ll support the day to day operation of the Fleet Team, helping ensure our vehicles, systems, and processes run smoothly. You’ll develop a wide range of business and administrative skills while contributing to essential fleet activities.

What will you be doing?

You will learn to and be supported in:

• Managing shared inboxes and responding to enquiries

• Raising purchase orders and assisting with procurement tasks

• Processing invoices and carrying out associated financial administration

• Inputting compliance data accurately into internal systems

• Maintaining records and supporting the compilation of fleet information

• Providing general administrative assistance to the wider Fleet Team

About you

This apprenticeship is ideal for someone who is:

• Organised and keen to learn

• Interested in administration, compliance, or fleet operations

• Confident using computers and willing to develop new skills

• Good at communicating with colleagues and external partners

• Able to work both independently and as part of a team

No prior fleet experience is needed — full training and support will be provided

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)