Reporting into the Transport Manager, you will work collaboratively to ensure effective running of a busy transport operation, ensuring that Operational KPIs are met and that the operations are conducted strictly in accordance with legal requirements, whilst helping to formulate and deliver the short, medium and long-term resource plans for your area.
Salary: £34,292 per annum
Working hours: 4 on 4 off days, 06.00-18.00
Key Duties of a Transport Shift Manager:
- Work collaboratively with our Myworkforce team ensuring compliance of all MWF activity and tasks including resource planning and managing the safety and cost-effective utilisation of all drivers and equipment.
- Responsible for owning, monitoring, and controlling the dispatching and de-briefing process to ensure that agreed standards of performance are consistently achieved by effective communication and management.
- Manage and support driver workforce whilst engaged on activity to ensure full legal compliance. Ensure records are correctly completed and maintained in accordance to the procedure
- Manage all aspects of driver performance to achieve or surpass expectations and KPI's.
- Promote company Health & Safety and employment policies within the transport operation.
- Ensure all personnel files are up to date incorporating licence validation, personal details, completed training.
- Responsible for site audits and works closely with the Transport Manager to ensure KPI’s are met
- To support the daily operational workflow on the customer site by providing answers to urgent queries
- Actively work with the customer and site management team to achieve performance addressing any concerns or questions within a timely manner.
- Manage the recruitment of permanent and temporary staff as required to cover business peaks.
- Ensure that the Transport Manager & H&S team are made aware of all accidents, dangerous occurrences & near misses and that the relevant reports are completed for all such incidents.
- Responsible for identifying and escalating any maintenance and repair issues on site and within depot.
- Ensure that all daily vehicle check, vehicle inspection & defect reporting procedures are in place.
- Administering the vehicle and trailer maintenance programme, (including servicing, MOTs, VOR, weekly cab checks and maintaining all records).
- Responsible for coordinating and attending investigation/ Disciplinary hearings as required.
- To support and collaboratively work with the Transport Manager on any Depot initiatives to ensure continuous improvement.
- Responsible for co-ordinating overtime payments, processing of driver expenses and enabling resolution of pay queries.
- To carry out and support with Depot administrative tasks.
- Responsible for and collaboratively work with the Transport Manager during driver recruitment and on-boarding.
- Ensuring all training needs are met for drivers (including inductions, re-training, SSW etc.
- Take the lead in resolving unforeseen problems as they arise ensuring appropriate resolution of these to utilise the learning to plan for future similar scenarios.
- Build constructive working relationships with supplementary business departments such as MWF, Fleet, HR, Planning and Finance which are based on mutual trust and respect.
- Any other duties and responsibilities as required.
Apply on company website Wentworth Park, Wentworth Way, Tankersley, S75 3DH Barnsley, United Kingdom On-site Full-time GBP 34,292 / year
Culina Group is hiring a Transport Shift Manager
About company
We are a market leading ambient and chilled food & drink 3PL specialist, providing warehousing, distribution, contract packing and a bonded division with extensive expertise in relation to dutiable goods across the UK and Ireland. We have recently added both Fresh and Food Manufacturing divisions and are looking towards the future and the continuation of being one of the leading logistics companies within the UK.
Using modern IT infrastructure, including warehouse management systems, satellite tracking and client interfaces we are able to offer unrivalled customer support, ensuring that you always know where your products are. Online up to date data is always available through customer web portals allowing you to track your goods from anywhere, while a significant investment of over £2.5m in customer service infrastructure over the last five years ensures that we exceed customer expectations not just once or twice, but every single time.
Working hand in hand with some of the globe's leading brands and manufacturers is an everyday event at Culina Group, plus with a multitude of own-label producers and developing companies, all are catered for with an efficient and flexible infrastructure. Importantly, our strategic focus is on food & drink logistics within a shared-user environment, which is driven by volume and critical mass. This ultimately delivers an efficient and cost effective solution for clients of all sizes.
We are committed to future proofing our business by investing in teams, network, systems, sector and the environment, which will ensure we continue to provide clients with a robust supply chain platform which performs beyond expectations every day. The latest two service additions of Fresh and Food Manufacturing are testament to this ethos, ensuring that we continue to become a leading light within the logistics industry.