Transport Coordinator

GXO Logistics; Bedworth; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Transport Coordinator to enhance their operational team in Bedworth. This full-time role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with the Transport Manager, gaining valuable experience in transport operations. You will oversee compliance, develop effective plans, and lead a team to achieve performance goals. Enjoy a competitive salary with generous benefits, including annual leave and high street discounts. Join a diverse and inclusive workplace that values your contributions and supports your career growth.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

High street discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Workplace pension

Qualifications

• Strong transport knowledge and compliance with legislation.
• Excellent people management and coaching skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain plans for forecasting storage capacity.
• Ensure compliance with company and legal requirements.
• Manage and develop people management skills in the team.

Skills

Transport knowledge

Route planning

Driver hour rules

Vehicle/transport legislation

Health & Safety legislation

People management skills

Coaching and influencing skills

Self-management

Job description

Are you currently a Transport Administrator looking for more responsibility? Perhaps you are a Coordinator looking for your next challenge? Whatever the reason, this is the role for you!

Here at GXO, we are currently on the search for an enthusiastic Transport Coordinator to join our team in Bedworth. This position will give you the opportunity to shadow the Transport Manager to gain more experience and knowledge to get to that next stage in your transporting career. You will deliver clear operational direction, leadership and development to the operations team ensuring, all specified performance levels are achieved.

This is a full-time, permanent position working any 5 days from 7, 10:00 – 18:00. When the supervisors are on annual leave you will cover the 4 on 4 off shift pattern, both days and nights, 06:30 – 18:30 and 18:30 – 06:30. You will be compensated with overtime to cover these shifts when needed.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of £ 28,000 per annum. In addition, we offer 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). You’ll have access to a variety of high street discounts, as well as a cycle to work scheme, a workplace pension, and many other perks.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Develop and maintain plans and reports of forecasting storage capacity avaliable across the site to support the profit and efficiency of the operation
• Ensure company compliance requirements are adhered to, including vehicles are legally compliant for use
• Demonstrate a high level of people management skills and develop the same skills in direct reports and colleagues
• Ensure all direct activities have a relevant standard operating procedure and actively pursue, the elimination of waste through the application of continuous improvement tools and techniques

What you need to succeed at GXO

• Transport knowledge including route planning, knowledge of driver hour rules and vehicle/transport legislation/H&S legislation
• Excellent people management, coaching and influencing skills
• Self-management and to take ownership and responsibility of personal workload

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are Disability Confident Committed as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.

About the company

GXO Logistics is an American global contract logistics company that manages outsourced supply chains and warehousing.