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 incl. Bank Hols

Pension scheme

Life Assurance x2 salary

Wellness / Employee Assistance Program

Eye Care Vouchers

Job summary

Culina Group Limited, at the Carlisle site, seeks a Transport Shift Manager to lead a busy operation, ensuring KPI targets are met while complying with legal requirements. You will help plan short to long-term resources and collaborate with drivers and the Myworkforce team to optimise utilisation.

The role covers supervision of driver performance, safety compliance, and daily operational support on site, with Sunday-Thursday night shifts and an attractive salary up to £41,305 with overtime

Qualifications

• Proven track record in Transport & Logistics industry.
• Experience in managing resources to meet demand.
• Strong organisation and communication skills.
• Proven ability to deliver service KPIs.
• Good understanding of Health & Safety processes.
• Energetic, proactive and able to drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Myworkforce team on resource planning and driver/utilisation.
• Own and monitor driver de-briefing to achieve performance standards.
• Manage driver workforce and ensure legal compliance; maintain records.
• Conduct employee investigations and handle grievances when required.
• Oversee driver performance to meet or exceed KPIs.
• Promote Health & Safety policies within the transport operation.
• Keep personnel files up to date including licences and training.
• Support site audits and coordinate with Transport Manager to meet KPIs.
• Assist daily operational workflow and answer urgent queries for the customer site.
• Work with customer and site management to resolve concerns promptly.
• Recruit permanent and temporary staff to cover peaks.
• Escalate accidents and incidents and ensure timely reporting.
• Identify maintenance/repair issues on site and depot.
• Ensure daily vehicle checks, inspections and defect reporting procedures.

Skills

Transport experience

Resource management

Organisation & communication

KPI delivery

Health & Safety

People engagement

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: 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, monitor 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 information 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