Transport Operations Manager

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Job summary

A leading logistics company in Dartford is seeking a Transport Operations Manager to lead a team in ensuring optimal delivery and performance. The ideal candidate will have extensive transport leadership experience, with a focus on compliance and team development. The role offers a competitive salary up to £46,200 and includes benefits such as a company pension and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

Company pension scheme

Generous holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Onsite parking

Qualifications

• In-depth transport leadership experience within a fast-paced or home-delivery operation.
• Engaging leadership style, people management and delegation experience.
• Commercially focused, thrives from innovation and development.
• Passion for transport compliance with strong knowledge in transport legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Supervisors, Drivers and Clerical colleagues.
• Drive innovation and high performance with integrity, ensuring safety.
• Oversee performance delivery ensuring high level of customer feedback.
• Manage transport fleet compliance and safety training.

Skills

Transport leadership experience

People management

Transport compliance knowledge

Strong communication

Job description

Overview

Transport Operations Manager
40 Hours (4 on 4 off shift pattern, 4am to 4pm/ 8am to 8pm).
Salary: Up to £46,200 per annum dependent on level of experience.

Join our team as Transport Operations Manager, as we continue to grow along with our customer IKEA. You’ll be leading in our brand new, state of the art depot in Dartford. You will be leading a team of Supervisors, Drivers and Clerical colleagues to ensure the relevant delivery, productivity and financial performance indicators are met to deliver best in class service to our customer.

This role supports around 100 routes and 200 crew members each day. Ideally candidates will be used to a similar size, fast-paced operation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Internal and external stakeholder communication, including meetings with customer, conveying facts and ideas in a clear and articulated manner.
• Encourage team engagement, development and coaching, including encouragement of two-way feedback and ideas within the team to continuously focus on best-in-class delivery and improvement (also including HR processes: performance reviews, investigations etc).
• Drive innovation and high performance with integrity, through high levels of safe working and practises.
• H&S delivery and regulations adhered to.
• Deliver transport fleet management and compliance, upskilling colleagues with transportation safety/compliance.
• Oversee performance delivery ensuring a high level of NPS/customer feedback is achieved.
• Ensure all product returns, stock debriefs are achieved.
• Deliver and track on transport KPIS/SLAs.
• Assist with driver hours in line with legislations, along with organisation of service and maintenance of vehicles.
• Ensure vehicle and driver records are managed in line with legislations and best practises.
• Point of liaison for escalation and incident reports.
  

What will you bring to our team?

• In-depth transport leadership experience within a fast-paced or home-delivery operation.
• Engaging leadership style, people management and delegation experience.
• Commercially focused, thrives from innovation and development.
• Passion for transport compliance with strong knowledge in transport legislation.

Our Culture & Benefits

In addition to a generous salary, we really value our people and offer a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits include, online discount platform, onsite parking and much more.

Our people are at the core of our business and what makes Wincanton great. That’s why we also provide significant opportunities for career development and progression, as well as training enrichment and multi-skilling, in a dynamic working environment.

Be a part of our values; We’re Thoughtful, We’re Aiming High and We’re Prepared.

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Our Commitment

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel safe, supported and valued, whilst feeling they can be their whole selves within our workplaces. We are proud that our colleagues represent us and our successes.

Attracting diverse teams, we believe in creating an inclusive, respectful organisational culture for our colleagues and future talent.

Find out more: Wincanton champions a diverse workforce