Transport Operations Manager

Wincanton; Newport; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A major logistics provider in Newport seeks a Transport Operations Manager responsible for managing vehicles and a team. This role focuses on achieving KPIs, maintaining service levels, and ensuring compliance with transport legislation. The ideal candidate has a background in logistics operations, excellent team management skills, and a positive attitude towards work. Competitive salary and various employee benefits are offered, along with opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Generous salary

Company pension scheme

Generous holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Onsite parking

Qualifications

• Experience within an operational environment, working to tight deadlines on your own initiative.
• Ability to develop your team and manage effectively to achieve their operational KPIs.
• Numerate, with experience of delivering targets within budgetary constraints.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operation achieves targeted daily and weekly KPIs.
• Build and maintain effective customer relationships.
• Give direction and monitor performance of the transport activities.

Skills

International CPC

Team management

Understanding of drivers working time directive

Excellent computer skills

Knowledge of transport legislation

Tools

Transport Management Systems

MS Office applications

Job description

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Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Transport Operations Manager working at our Marshalls Newport site. They will be responsible for a number of vehicles on a national contract, a team of administrators and drivers, over 5 days a week, with budget and service responsibility.

How will you contribute?

• Ensure the operation achieves targeted daily and weekly KPIs, through effective use of the planning / scheduling information available, providing a first-class service to the customer within budget
• Build and maintain an effective customer relationship; ensuring that service is consistently meeting the customers' requirements, in line with the Service Level Agreements, through optimising resource management, technology, fleet utilisation and colleague engagement.
• Giving direction and monitoring performance, ensuring the site runs efficiently and effectively with direct responsibility for the transport activities on site, including managing vehicle legislation and maintenance scheduling
• Ensure effective communication throughout the operational leadership team.
• Ensuring all activities meet the Wincanton standard for Health, Safety, and the Environment, driving contribution to the safety culture.
• Develop an engaged, high-performance team culture - where growth mindset is prevalent.
• To ensure the operation is fully compliant with all legislation.
• Assisting in leading and developing a culture of continuous improvement to drive best-in-class activity and operational excellence, in line with performance objectives.
• Ensure the team are working towards all relevant policies and procedures.

What will you bring?

• International CPC required.
• Experience within an operational environment, working to tight deadlines on your own initiative.
• Ability to develop your team, ensuring that they are well informed and well-motivated and managed effectively to achieve their personal goals as well as their operational KPI's.
• Understanding of drivers working time directive and EU regulations.
• A positive and flexible attitude to work being reliable and punctual.
• Excellent computer skills, specifically MS Office applications and knowledge of Transport Management Systems.
• Experience of managing a team, including welfare, disciplinary and grievances.
• Demonstrate knowledge of transport legislation.
• Numerate, with experience of delivering targets within budgetary constraints.

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; Excellence, Integrity, Passion, Proactivity, Togetherness & Trust.

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