Transport Team Leader
£30,000 - £32,000
Stevenage
Monday to Friday - Days Only
Following a period of incredible growth my client, a FTSE100 supplier of consumables to the retail industry, now has an excellent opportunity for a Transport Team Leader to join their team at the Stevenage site.
Our client offers a generous salary, market leading benefits and excellent career progression opportunities.
Duties include:
- Despatch and Debrief drivers whilst carrying out random gate checks.
- Ensure driver timesheets are correctly completed.
- Ensure all POD's are signed and sent to Head office along with fuel receipts.
- Check planned routes, allocate to correct fleet/drivers and plan resource where needed.
- Prepare Load sheets, POD's and run sheets for loaders/loading and deliveries.
- Operate/Manage Microlise system ensuring 100% compliance.
- Manage breakdowns, Callouts and VOR's.
- Manage trunking and equipment location.
- Ensure driver and vehicle tacho downloads carried out daily and monthly.
- Monitor Plan v Actual and advise drivers where and how to improve.
- Assist with investigations by gathering statements and photos for EH360.
- Communicate with the Planning Team on delivery points, restrictions and what recourses are available, along with route changes and reasons why.
- Keep excellent communications to all sites/departments via calls/emails and attend set meetings.
- Report failed deliveries and replanned as soon as possible.
- Investigate and look to reduce parking fines.
- Ensure 'Day to Day tasks' have been completed.
- Conduct any other reasonable management requests.
Skills & Experience required:
- CPC National (or working towards)
- Proven Transport experience.
- Proven track record of Transport operation in a fast-paced warehousing and distribution environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Experience working with customer specific KPI's.
- Excellent IT skills, good verbal and written presentation skills, confidence in dealing with operations and customers
Apply online or for further information contact one of our specialist consultants quoting reference number: NJR14702