Transport Supervisor

Interaction Recruitment; Bassetlaw; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Interaction Recruitment is seeking a Transport Supervisor in the United Kingdom to plan, optimise, and control all deliveries and returns across the transport operation.

You will monitor emails, ensure client collections are planned, optimise driver routes with fuel and hours in mind, allocate driver resources (employed, agency and subcontractor), maintain relationships with providers and internal teams, and produce daily run sheets for drivers.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a fleet of up to 20 vehicles and 50 trailers.
• Understanding of cost management within transport operations.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Customer-first mindset and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan deliveries, collections and returns across the transport operation.
• Monitor and action all emails in a timely manner.
• Ensure client collections are planned and driver routes are optimized for fuel and hours.
• Allocate driver resources (employed, agency and subcontractor) to routes.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external providers and internal departments.
• Produce daily run sheets for all drivers.
• Plan returns in consultation with the site returns team.
• Complete inbound log for warehouse visibility of inbound loads.
• Ensure all returns are booked in as per customer requirements.
• Raising POs and other generic tasks as required.

Skills

Fleet management

Operations planning

Cost control

Resilience

Customer focus

Driver coordination

Job description

Transport Supervisor

Outline: Planning, optimising and controlling all deliveries / collections /returns across the transport operation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitor and action all emails in a timely manner
• Ensure all client collections are planned
• Ensure driver routes are optimized and take in to account fuel cost, drivers hours
• Allocate driver resource to all routes ( employed, agency and subcontractor )
• Develop and maintain relationships with all external providers and internal departments
• Produce daily run sheets for all drivers
• Plan all returns in consultation with the site returns team
• Complete inbound log for warehouse visibility of inbound loads
• Ensure all returns are booked in as per customer requirements

Generic tasks:

• Brief / de-brief drivers.
• Ensure all keys are accounted for, and that vehicles are swept out and utilised / returned in a clean state.
• Ensure all drivers book in / out
• Download digi cards of returning drivers daily
• Download digi cards of all agency drivers at start of shift prior to issuing run details and confirm no major infringement history
• Ensure the returns procedure for return vehicles is adopted and followed correctly
• Remain in contact with drivers throughout the shift
• Raising PO's (Note: this list is not exhaustive and only an outline to some of the tasks measured for this role)

Key Competencies

• Certificate of Professional Competence would be advantageous, but not essential
• Experience managing a fleet of up to 20 vehicles and 50 trailers
• Commercial awareness & cost management
• Resilience and ability to perform under pressure
• Customer-first mindset
• INDLEE