Transport Supervisor

About the Job:

Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You’ll have an important part to delivering cost effective and compliant transport operations.

Here at Unipart we don’t just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's ‘From Gate to Great’ training and development program.

As a Transport Supervisor you will develop the transport function and plan, co-ordinate, supervise, and report upon activities within the transport operation. You’ll provide effective leadership through communication, motivation, training and development, and ensure all daily targets are met.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Ensure full compliance with all relevant legislative and corporate requirements relating to transport
• Manage cost and service in line with agreed Key Performance Indicators
• Ensure quality standards are maintained in line with OTIF measures.
• Direct the daily activity to ensure a safe, secure, clean and fair work environment for team members.
• Ensure the team achieves the performance targets required and contributes to the achievement of service levels.
• Liaise with the Warehouse teams to ensure all loads are completed accurately and loaded on time.
• Ensure returns are maximised.
• Liaise collaboratively with customer services to improve customer satisfaction levels in line with agreed business targets.
• Take accountability for employee satisfaction levels by applying good Leadership and Employee engagement practices.
• Ensure compliance with the organisations health, safety and security procedures and contribute to risk assessments and the development of safe systems of work.
• Promote and behave in a way consistent with the organisation’s vision, values, and principals.
• Facilitate effective communication, between themselves, their team, their peers, and the Management Team, including business developments and performance targets
• Communicate and support the implementation of internal continuous improvement tools and techniques
• Contribute towards projects that drive down cost / improve service.
• Actively manage cost, utilising management information to determine and act on trends.

About You:

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

• Experience as a transport first line manager
• Proven experience of delivering excellent customer service
• Capability to plan and manage your own workload and communicate effectively to others
• Knowledge of transport legislation, Working Time Directive, Drivers hours
• Computer literate in the Microsoft Office package, with the ability to learn in house systems
• Experience of working in an operational/transport environment
• This role requires some flexibility to cover other shifts when required

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

Department: Transport
Contract type: Full time
Hours:40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 06:00 to 14:00
Salary: £30,744 per annum, plus 22 days rising holiday plus bank holidays, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
Closing date for applications: 20th March, 2024
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