Transport Shift Manager

Culina Group Limited; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 28 days

Pension scheme

Life Assurance 2x salary

Employee Wellness programme

Eye care vouchers

Job summary

Stobart, part of the Culina Group, is recruiting a Transport Shift Manager for our Carlisle site. You will work to keep a busy transport operation running smoothly, meeting Operational KPIs and ensuring legal compliance while helping plan short-, medium-, and long-term resources.

This night shift runs Sunday to Thursday, 18:00–04:00, with a salary up to £41,305 and overtime opportunities. You will collaborate with the Myworkforce team and site management to optimize driver and equipment

Qualifications

• Proven track record in Transport & Logistics industry.
• Demonstrable experience of successful resource management.
• Excellent organisation and communication skills.
• Proven track record of working to clearly defined service delivery KPI's.
• Excellent understanding of Health and Safety processes.
• Energetic and has a natural desire to generate and drive improvements.
• Good people engagement skills, self-driven, positive can-do attitude.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in a customer facing environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our Myworkforce team ensuring compliance of all activity and tasks including resource planning and the safety and cost-effective utilisation of drivers and equipment.
• Own, monitor and control the driver de-briefing process to ensure standards of performance.
• Manage and support driver workforce while engaged on activity to ensure full legal compliance; maintain records.
• Conduct employee investigations, and grievances when required.
• Manage all aspects of driver performance to achieve or exceed KPIs.
• Promote Health & Safety and company policies within the transport operation.
• Ensure personnel files are up to date including licences and training.
• Responsible for site audits and work with the Transport Manager to ensure KPIs are met.
• Support the daily operational workflow on the customer site by providing answers to urgent queries.
• Work with the customer and site management to address concerns or questions promptly.
• Recruit permanent and temporary staff to cover business peaks.
• Escalate accidents, dangerous occurrences & near misses and ensure reports are completed.
• Identify and escalate maintenance and repair issues on site and within depot.
• Ensure daily vehicle checks, vehicle inspection & defect reporting procedures are in place.

Skills

Transport & Logistics

Resource management

Organisation

KPIs

Health & Safety

People engagement

Communication

Customer facing

Job description

Company Description

Stobart (Part of the Culina Group) is a leading ambient transport and logistics business, providing services to many of the UK’s best known brands across core consumer and retail sectors. At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!

Job Description

Due to continued growth, we are now seeking a Transport Shift Manager to join our Transport team at our Carlisle site. As Transport Shift Manager you will work collaboratively to ensure effective running of a busy transport operation, ensuring that Operational KPIs are met and that the operations are conducted strictly in accordance with legal requirements, whilst helping to formulate and deliver the short, medium and long-term resource plans for your area.

Working hours & Salary

Working hours: Sunday-Thursday Nights, 18:00-4:00

Salary: Up to £41,305, with optional overtime

Job responsibilities of Transport Shift Manager include:

• Work collaboratively with our Myworkforce team ensuring compliance of all MWF activity and tasks including resource planning and managing the safety and cost-effective utilisation of all drivers and equipment
• Responsible for owning, monitoring and controlling the driver de-briefing process to ensure that agreed standards of performance are consistently achieved by effective communication and management.
• To manage and support driver workforce all drivers whilst engaged on activity to ensure full legal compliance. Ensure records are correctly completed and maintained in accordance to the procedure.
• Conduct employee investigations, and grievance, when required.
• Manage all aspects of driver performance to achieve or surpass expectations and KPI's.
• Promote company Health & Safety and employment policies within the transport operation.
• Ensuring all personnel files are up to date incorporating licence validation, personal details, completed training.
• Responsible for site audits and works closely with the Transport Manager to ensure KPI’s are met
• To support the daily operational workflow on the customer site by providing answers to urgent queries
• Actively work with the customer and site management team to achieve performance addressing any concerns or questions within a timely manner
• Manage the recruitment of permanent and temporary staff as required to cover business peaks.
• Ensure that the Transport Manager & the H&S team are made aware of all accidents, dangerous occurrences & near misses and that the relevant reports are completed for all such incidents.
• Responsible for identifying and escalating any maintenance and repair issues on site and within depot
• Ensure that all daily vehicle check, vehicle inspection & defect reporting procedures are in place

Qualifications

• Proven track record in Transport & Logistics industry
• Demonstrable experience of successful resource management
• Excellent organisation and communication skills
• Proven track record of working to clearly defined service delivery KPI's
• Excellent understanding of Health and Safety processes
• Energetic and has a natural desire to generate and drive improvements
• Good people engagement skills, self-driven, positive can-do attitude.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in a customer facing environment

Additional Information

As part of our drive to make Stobart’s a 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 - 28 days, inclusive of Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirements so we offer a great contribution
• Life Assurance - x 2 your annual salary
• Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal ​s?question? 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