Location: Cranberry Drive, Denton, Manchester, M34 3UL (Hybrid)
Department: Transport
Employment Type: Full Time 42.5 Hours a Week / 6:00-15:00, Monday to Friday
Salary: competitive
The Role:
The Transport Supervisor is responsible for supporting the Transport Manager in the management of a dynamic transport team, helping to take the business forward as well as furthering your own career through a period of growth.
A hands-on approach is a must to work alongside our drivers and therefore experience in a similar field is essential for this role.
Our ideal candidate must be able to work independently and as a key part of our existing transport team. Strong planning and organisational skills are a must along with excellent time and work management.
Key Tasks :
- Consistently lead a team of drivers by example.
- Mentor, engage and develop your team to be high performing at all times, as well as achieving company vision.
- Track and report on performance for the transport team.
- Manage sickness and absence.
- Complete investigations where necessary.
- Manage driver tachographs and infringements through our preferred system.
- Engage and build positive working relationships with internal and external partners.
- Assist with coordinating the Drivers and their daily runs.
- Provide sickness and holiday cover for colleagues in the department.
- Brief drivers to ensure that all instructions for their allocated runs are communicated.
- Responsible for Health and Safety of the team, ensuring safe working practices are adhered to at all times.
- Monitoring KPI data, identifying trends with a view to improving efficiencies and achieving continuous improvement targets.
- Responsibility to collate (and where applicable liaise with other sites to make sure KPI completion is adhered to daily) and circulate daily KPI data to relevant management team.
- Liaise with fleet maintenance providers as and when required and log fleet issues/call outs.
- Assist with the management of the fleet, ensuring that vehicles required for service are presented when scheduled or requested.
- Assist with 3PL queries and KPIs.
- Deal with customers in a professional and courteous manner.
Candidate specification:
- Good problem solver
- Articulate, numerate and computer literate
- Good geographical knowledge
- Flexible in approach and able to work a rotating shift pattern where required
- Knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation relevant to the workplace
- Ability to communicate with confidence to a wide range of audiences
- Able to work under pressure and to strict deadlines
- Excellent organisational skills
- High attention to detail
- Ability to follow and provide clear instructions
Education/Work experience requirements:
Essential
- Experience of working in a similar role
- Good administration skills
- Proficient in MS Excel
- Educated to GCSE level or above
Desirable
- Knowledge of transport legislation
- Knowledge of fleet management processes and systems
Benefits of working for us
We recognise that conflicting priorities between work and personal life can affect employee productivity and stress levels and impact upon work performance. We are committed to providing an environment that is supportive of work life balance through benefits and health and well-being initiatives. Resources and opportunities are provided to encourage and support the improved health and well-being of its employees. We do this through the following benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Clean modern, spacious and well-appointed offices
- Fresh Fruit provided to support healthy eating
- Free filtered water
- Two communal staff break areas.
- Staff discount available on business products.
- Social events
- Wellness plan available to employees after 1 year service
- Extra day annual leave from your 5th year
- 24 days annual leave plus standard bank holidays
- Staff saving scheme
- Long service bonuses
- Relaxed dress code
- Subsided gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme (twice per year)
- Reduced cost Costco membership
- Death-in-service
- Flu-jab (once per year)
From the moment that you join our team we aspire to make your employment experience an outstanding and engaging one. The TKC family is a passionate and proud company. It is this vigour and attitude that helps us execute well every day. If you are enthusiastic and thrive in a collaborative and friendly environment then we invite you to learn more, explore opportunities and discover a place for you.
