Transport Supervisor - Tewkesbury

William Jackson Food Group Limited; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Volunteer day

Product discounts

Cycle to Work Scheme

Charity payroll donations

Employee assistance services

Free meals every few months

Job summary

Wellocks, part of the William Jackson Food Group, is looking for a Transport Supervisor to oversee the Tewkesbury Depot operations. You will de-brief drivers, verify paperwork, input data and ensure OTIF while maintaining road safety and vehicle standards.

The role requires knowledge of delivery routes, UK driving regulations and the use of Maxoptra for route planning and KPI tracking. A full UK licence is essential.

Qualifications

• Good analysis and reporting skills using KPI dashboards.
• Familiarity with GPS and route manifests.
• Understanding of HGV driver hours and regulations.
• Experience with paperless deliveries and SOP adherence.

Responsibilities

• Supervise transport operations at the Tewkesbury Depot to maximise OTIF.
• Ensure drivers return with complete paperwork and conduct de-briefs.
• Input data per Transport dept requirements and maintain vehicle files.
• Oversee end-of-day warehouse activities and vehicle maintenance checks.
• Monitor driver hours, route compliance and road safety procedures.

Skills

KPI dashboards

GPS & route manifests

Full UK driving licence

HGV hours & regulations

Delivery routes knowledge

Paperless deliveries

SOP compliance

Tools

Maxoptra

Job description

Transport Supervisor - Tewkesbury

About the role

The purpose of this role is to supervise the overall activities of the Transport Function at the Tewkesbury Depot, ensuring all vehicles / drivers returning to the depot are de-briefed in full, ensuring that all aspects of operational, compliance and health and safety are covered and processed in a prompt and effective manner.

What you will do:

Logistics Management –

• Ensuring drivers have the correct and completed paperwork when returning to the depot.
• Face to face in full de-briefs with all drivers upon returning to the depot.
• Data inputting as per transport departments requirements.
• Management of end of day warehouse, ensuring the temperature regulation of returning product
• On road supervision of drivers and routes with a fluid approach to ensure OTIF is maximised.
• Ensuring drivers and vehicles are legal at the point of returning to the depot.

Health and Safety -

• Enforce all HSE requirements and conduct investigations for anyone failing to follow these.
• Ensure all relevant Transport and Health and Safety compliance and legislation is communicated, understood and adhered to you in your team.

Compliance -

• Complete driving licence checks, which includes weekly random spot checks
• Supervise the vehicle defect procedure and ensure vehicles are maintained to a roadworthy and legal standard.
• Complete DQC Card Checks, which includes weekly random spot checks.
• Updating and maintenance of vehicle files in line with company procedures and legislation.
• Booking all vehicles for Service, MOT and fridge legislative requirements.
• Complete Maxoptra checks and ensuring that driver’s routes are compliant.
• Ensure company accident reporting procedures are adhered to.
• Monitoring of driver hours / regulations and briefings where applicable.

What you will need:

• FLT licence is preferred but not essential
• Full UK driver's licence
• Understanding of HGV driver’s hours and regulations.
• Full knowledge of delivery routes
• Good analysis and reporting skills using KPI dashboards
• Competent in GPS and route manifests
• Experience of working with paperless deliveries
• Experience in delivery safety and processes
• Role model for adhering to SOPs; always follows rules and procedures

Let us tell you some more benefits you would receive:

• Fancy volunteering? We will give you one day off a year to take part in volunteering.
• Generous discounts on our products
• Cycle to Work Scheme that offers discounted bikes and cycling equipment.
• Donate through your pay to a charity of your choice. The money is simply deducted through your pay before tax, so for every pound you donate, the 20p that usually goes to tax will go to the charity instead!
• We also have a range of employee assistance services which can be tailored to give you support on various matters such as financial, health and wellbeing advice.
• We treat our teams to a free meal every few months, from our visiting fish & chip van, to freshly made bacon baps from our in-house chefs

About us

Wellocks, is one of the leading UK food distributors in the hospitality industry. We provide fruit, vegetables, dairy, eggs, poultry, meat, store cupboard essentials and everything else chefs will need in their restaurant kitchen. Thanks to our highly skilled team, we also offer pre-prepared veg and freshly-made pasta which is a key part of our service.

From our humble beginnings in 1961 supplying potatoes to local pubs and restaurants, 60 years later we now supply over 1,200 restaurant kitchens across the country with amazing ingredients.

We’re proud to be part of the William Jackson Food Group, a dedicated family-owned food business which started in 1851. Our sister businesses are Abel & Cole, Jacksons Bakery and Belazu. Family values and the commitment which comes with such a long-standing business are rooted in our culture here at Wellocks.