Transport First Line Manager

DHL; Bellshill; On-site; GBP 31,000; Full time

Job summary

An award-winning leader in supply chain management is seeking a Transport First Line Manager to coordinate daily operations. This role involves managing drivers, ensuring compliance with legal standards, and maintaining excellent health and safety practices. The ideal candidate will have management experience in a transport environment and possess strong communication and supervisory skills. Join a dynamic team and be part of a company that values diversity and inclusion while offering competitive pay and a range of benefits, including free GP services and employee support.

Benefits

Free parking

Free transport to site

Canteen provisions

Free confidential 24/7 GP service

Discounts on retail, childcare, and gym

Affordable loans

Enhanced pension scheme

24/7 employee support service

Qualifications

• Experience in managing transport operations and drivers.
• Strong communication and supervisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate daily warehouse and distribution requirements.
• Ensure compliance with transport operations and legal standards.

Skills

Management experience in a Transport environment

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Supervisory skills

Job description

Salary: £30,212
Grade: RCS N
Contract Type: 12 Month Secondment (Full-Time)
Shift patterns: Any 5 days from 7 earlies, days and lates (including every 1 in 4 weekends. Saturday OR Sunday)
Location: Motherwell – ML4 3NW

DHL, an award-winning leading supply chain business is seeking a Transport First Line Manager to play a vital role coordinating our daily warehouse and distribution requirements.

WHAT DOES THE ROLE ENTAIL?

As part of your normal duties, whilst maintaining excellent health and safety practices, you will:

• Rotational shift pattern: 06:00-14:00 / 10:00-18:30 & 14:00-22:30 with 1 in 4 Saturdays - 06:00-14:30
• To be a 21st Century Manager leading and managing drivers
• Safe, legal and efficient execution of transport operations during a duty shift to network SLA's/KPI's
• Responsible for driver and fleet legal compliance during shift in accordance with DHL Asset Management Centre of Excellence standards
• Have clear understanding of Roles & Responsibilities applicable to your role and to your team
• Point of the contact for all drivers during your drivers duty shift

WHAT DO WE NEED FROM YOU?

We'd love to hear from you if you have the following experience but don't hesitate to apply if you don't tick every box on this page - we're great at spotting talent and potential in everyone:

• Management experience in a Transport environment
• Experience preferably in multi user and chilled operation
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Supervisory skills - managing individual performance/absenteeism/conflict and development

WHY CHOOSE US?

As well as competitive pay rates, you will be entitled to an award-winning range of benefits including:

• On-site benefits: free parking, free transport to site, canteen provisions etc.
• Free confidential 24/7 GP service
• Hundreds of discounts (including retail, childcare + gym)
• Affordable loans & enhanced pension scheme
• 24/7 employee support service for you (+ family) with access to free counselling and much more.

OUR APPROACH TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We will ensure that all our resourcing activities are fair, transparent and consistent across the UK.

BE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE

DHL is the global leader in Supply Chain management and we keep the world moving. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more, so they can deliver to their customers.