Transport Manager

Maritime Transport Ltd; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company is seeking a Transport Manager based in Milton Keynes. The successful candidate will manage daily operations, ensuring compliance with driving regulations and overseeing driver recruitment and inspections. Candidates must have a strong background in operations management and excellent organizational skills. This role offers competitive salary and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual salary review

Annual bonus

25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Life assurance cover

Employee assistance programme

Discounts on MSC cruises

Qualifications

• Exceptional track record in operations management or equivalent performance.
• Experience in driver administration, recruitment, and induction.
• High level of organizational skills and commercial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations with a hands-on approach.
• Ensure compliance with driving hours and regulations.
• Oversee driver recruitment, induction, and supervision.
• Conduct vehicle and trailer inspections and defect control.

Skills

Operations management

Communication skills

Knowledge of driving hours and regulations

Team management

Job description

Overview

The Vacancy

Join a winning team at Maritime Transport. Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding career with a market leader? Maritime Transport is one of the fastest growing transport companies in the UK. We offer the most dynamic working environment and prospects to progress within the industry. We’re looking for a Transport Manager to be based at our Depot to help us to develop our ambitious plans.

Why work for Maritime Transport?

• Competitive salary
• Annual salary review (discretionary).
• Annual bonus (discretionary).
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays on top from day 1.
• Life assurance cover x3 from day 1.
• Maritime weekly lottery (chance to win one thousand pounds every week)
• Group personal pension.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Big discounts on MSC cruises for yourself, family and friends
• You’ll be working for one of the market leaders

If you can demonstrate an exceptional track record in day-to-day operations management or an equivalent in exceeding performance targets. You will be a hands-on, flexible, with a thorough knowledge of driving hours and regulations with good IT skills and excellent communication skills. You will be responsible for a number of important areas of driver administration and compliance including: Vehicle and trailer inspection and defect control, infringement control and driver recruitment and induction.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations with a hands-on approach.
• Ensure compliance with driving hours and regulations.
• Driver administration, recruitment, induction and supervision.
• Vehicle and trailer inspection and defect control; infringement control.

Qualifications / Characteristics

If you are commercially astute, capable and extremely well organised and your people management skills are based on developing your team of drivers to achieve success, we would like to hear from you.

The Company

Founded in 2001 by Executive Chairman, John Williams, Maritime Transport has evolved from small beginnings into a leading logistics company with a turnover exceeding £400m.

To date, the company employs 3,000 personnel across 40+ sites including a network of strategic rail freight terminals, with a cutting-edge fleet of 1,300 Euro-6 trucks and over 50 container handlers servicing a number of trains, daily. Maritime has a proven track record as an intermodal operator, developing and delivering low carbon, container logistics solutions for first and final miles, and pioneering the modal shift of UK domestic distribution from road to rail.

In 2024, the company was acquired by Swiss-based global logistics and supply chain provider, MEDLOG S.A., supporting Maritime’s growth strategy and strengthening its market position as the UK’s leading provider of integrated road and rail freight logistics.

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