Transport Team Leader (AM shift)

Greencore Group; Carmarthen; Remote; GBP 17,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Holidays

Matched pension contributions

Life insurance

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Parental leave policies

Free onsite car park

Job summary

Greencore Group in Carmarthen is seeking a shift supervisor to lead a dedicated team at our distribution depot serving convenience retailers and forecourts. The role starts at 4am with a 5-out-of-7 pattern and overtime after 42 hours at time-and-a-quarter.

You will allocate trained resources, monitor safety, manage performance reporting, conduct inductions, and drive improvements across safety, food hygiene and service quality. This is a full-time on-site position with a strong benefits package.

Qualifications

• Basic maths skills and effective written and spoken English.
• People management experience in diverse teams.
• Food safety level 1 training or certification.
• Health and Safety level 2 training or certification.
• Experience of using handheld devices on shift.

Responsibilities

• Ensure competently trained resources are allocated to work activities with safe equipment to execute the operational plan.
• Investigate and communicate issues affecting the safe and legal achievement of the budgeted operational plan and, where required, prevent unsafe behaviours or use of unsafe equipment.
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure that people are supported in their roles and can effectively do their job or escalate for assistance and guidance.
• Ensure the administrative procedures and operational information is accurate and available for reporting operational performance and the requirements to demonstrate control in the event of an audit or investigation.
• Conduct operational inductions and training as required and ensure the records are signed off accurately for filing and entry to the onsite training matrix.
• Communicate opportunities for improvements where trends and deficiencies are evident and affect the quality of service, safety, food hygiene or profit of the operation.
• Consistently execute the process to ensure and demonstrate drivers are safe and legally entitled to drive the nominated safe and legal roadworthy vehicle planned for work prior to deploying on the road ensuring records are stored and accurate.
• Actively participate in the risk assessment, accident investigation, operational inspections and behavioral monitoring processes that ensures a safe workplace and operation and appropriate corrective actions.
• Effectively execute the permit to work controller responsibilities ensuring records are filed correctly and actively assist with scheduling and planning of maintenance activities for the vehicle fleet.

Skills

Basic maths skills

Effective written and spoken English

People management experience

Food safety level 1

Health and Safety level 2

Experience of using handheld devices

Job description

ShiftTimes:4am Start Time

Shift Pattern: 5 out of 7 with a rolling rest day

Pay Rate:£15.10 (+ £1.15 for any hours worked between 10pm and 6am)

Overtime:Premiums are payable after 42 hours at time and a quarter

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026,we’reone of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to makeeverydaytaste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business,we’reproud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy thevery best, whenever and wherever they shop

Carmarthen:

A distribution depot serving convenience retailers and forecourts in the region. The depot operates a fleet of 14 vehicles on 12 routes.

What you'll be doing

• Ensure competently trained resources are allocated to work activities with safe equipment to execute the operational plan
• Investigate and communicate issues affecting the safe and legal achievement of the budgeted operational plan and, where required, prevent unsafe behaviours or use of unsafe equipment
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure that people are supported in their roles and can effectively do their job or **escalate** for assistance and guidance
• Ensure the administrative procedures and operational information is accurate and available for reporting operational performance and the requirements to demonstrate control in the event of an audit or investigation
• Conduct operational inductions and training as required and ensure the records are signed off accurately for filing and entry to the onsite training matrix
• Communicate opportunities for improvements where trends and deficiencies are evident and affect the quality of service, safety, food hygiene or profit of the operation
• Consistently execute the process to ensure and demonstrate drivers are safe and legally entitled to drive the nominated safe and legal roadworthy vehicle planned for work prior to deploying on the road ensuring records are stored and accurate
• Actively participate in the risk assessment, accident investigation, operational inspections and behavioral monitoring processes that ensures a safe workplace and operation and appropriate corrective actions
• Effectively execute the permit to work controller responsibilities ensuring records are filed correctly and actively assist with scheduling and planning of maintenance activities for the vehicle fleet

What we're looking for

• Basic maths skills and effective written and spoken English
• People management experience in diverse teams
• Food safety level 1
• Health and Safety level 2
• Experience of using handheld devices

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment.If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies
• Free on site car park

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

We reserve the right to close this advertisement before the stated closing date.