Night Transport Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Night Transport Manager to join our team based at our Heston site.

Purpose of the role

Managing and coordinating the transport network through the night operation, ensuring the successful movement of UK and International product, in and around the UK to our customers, suppliers and sites. Assisting in making strategic decisions that affect the overall operation, including cost and service.

Main duties and responsibilities

What you do:

• Manage and control the transport budget and service levels for each contract
• Ensuring the sites have processed deliveries and loading accurately.
• Carry out site security procedures and checks.
• Complete ad hoc vehicle checks to ensure pre checks are being completed and additional equipment required is serviceable.
• Responsible for ensuring mandatory training is scheduled and training record cards maintained. Scheduling all training and assessment activity.
• All vehicle and FLT maintenance is scheduled.
• Regular reporting to management on results and ensuring follow-up action where required.
• Accountable for incident and accident control and preparing paperwork for any regulatory bodies. Ensuring completion of accident investigations and H&S Documents on H&S System.
• Liaising with and managing staffing schedules to customer requirements.
• Reviewing amending where necessary, delivery routes and schedules.
• Identifying and proactively booking agency cover where required.
• Cost Management, approving agency timesheets and ensuring agency spend controls are in place.
• Direct responsibility for the network transport operation out of hours.
• Managing all administration, customer quotes, invoicing and operating IT systems and processes for each customer.
• Accountable for vehicle and driver compliance, reviewing telematics and infringements are actioned in a timely manner.
• Monitoring stock accuracy and loss.
• Reducing cost within the operation, especially sub-contracting, whilst maintaining service levels.
• Accountable for drivers’ hours, holidays and rest days.
• Proactively recruiting skilled colleagues, keeping labour turnover to a minimum.
• Proactive recovery planning.

How you do it:

• Champion Torque. Approach work with excitement and curiosity, motivating others simultaneously. Keep up to date with industry innovations and opportunities. Use your knowledge to suggest changes that maximise revenue or improve processes
• Develop a safety culture within the operation, ensuring the highest standards of safety are met at all times.
• Create an environment of trust. Have difficult conversations when necessary and proactively ensure alignment with Torque Policies.
• Responsibly act when others will not. Focus on where you add value and trust others to do the same.
• Inspire confidence – use a creative approach to problem solving and to thinking ’outside the box’.
• Embrace change and new ideas. You see adversity as a chance to grow and help your team accept and meet change positively.
• Plan effectively for the team's strengths. Proactively manage team performance by conducting meaningful performance reviews, career development conversations and training and document appropriately.
• Approach work with energy, commitment, and diligence. Always look for ways to reduce cost, waste, and have a positive environmental impact with the ability to work under pressure
• Understand the importance of constructive criticism and receive it openly. Understand how your words and actions may impact others, learn new ways to effectively communicate and make people feel valued developing and maintaining positive internal and external relationships at all levels.

Person specification:

• A good level of literacy and numeracy
• Knowledgeable of current transportation and health and safety regulations
• IT skills (Microsoft Office and Warehousing Systems)
• An understanding of current health and safety regulations
• Understanding of basic employment law
• A flexible approach to work and the ability to work with changing demands (including shift patterns)
• 3+ Years’ experience of Transportation Management
• CPC Certificate – Desirable
• Basic understanding of route planning/optimisation