Senior Transport Coordinator

Culina Group; Heywood; On-site; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company is seeking a Senior Transport Coordinator to join their team in Heywood. This full-time role involves managing transport operations and ensuring compliance with transport regulations, with a salary of £35,000 per annum. Benefits include competitive holidays, pension scheme, and wellness programs, fostering employee development.

Benefits

Competitive holiday entitlement

Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution

Life Assurance - x2 annual salary

Wellness access via Employee Assistance Programme

Eye Care Vouchers

Employee of the Month and Year awards

Over 50 retailer discounts

Qualifications

• Proven knowledge of tachograph/driving rules and regulations.
• Ability to work without direct supervision.
• Experience working under pressure to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee the transport operation ensuring service levels are met.
• Optimize resources and ensure adherence to driving regulations.
• Communicate effectively with the planning team and customers.

Skills

Planning and organising skills

Good IT skills

Attention to detail

Job description

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We are currently seeking aSenior Transport Coordinator to join our Transport team at our Heywood site on a full time permanent basis!

Salary: £35,000 per annum.

Shift Pattern: Monday-Friday, (06:00 - 14:00) Sunday-Thursday, (13:30-21:30) rotating shifts.

As Senior Transport Coordinator you will manage and oversee the Transport operation, ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained. Planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery / collection times.

Key Duties of a Senior Transport Coordinator:

• Optimising resource and adherence of WTD and drivers’ hours legislation.
• Signing off and overseeing an effective transport plan to achieve on time delivery and collection performance expectations.
• Overseing own and subcontractor resource to achieve delivery / collection times, creating and updating daily run summary.
• Effectively communicating with the Planning team, Customer service, other depots and when required, directly with customer.
• Monitoringarrival and departure times, ensuring deliveries are made within the specified windows.
• Finding the best fit solution for customer collections, adhering to collection times.
• Ensuring any investigations and disciplinaries are carried out in line with company process / procedures.
• Ensuring all accidents, incidents and near misses are logged, investigated and reported.
• Carrying out colleague reviews.
• Liaising and planning drivers in for meetings / courses as required.

Qualifications

• Proven knowledge and experience of tachograph/driving rules and regulations.
• Planning and organising skills, with the ability to work efficiently and accurately to meet set deadlines under pressure.
• Ability to work without direct supervision.
• Good IT skills including MS Office packages with strong attention to detail and accuracy.

Additional Information

As part of our drive to make Great Beara great place to work, we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.

Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.

Our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

• Annual Leave – Competitive holiday entitlement.
• Pension scheme – We want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirementso we offer agreat contribution of 4% employee and 4% employer.
• Life Assurance - x2 your annual salary.
• Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programmewe offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year.
• Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses.
• Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the Month and Year, special recognition and long service awards.
• Everyday discounts - Via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!