Transport Shift Manager

• Promoting a culture of safety within the team, ensuring compliance with safety procedures, and investigating any incidents
• Leading and supervising a team of drivers during their assigned shift, including performance reviews, coaching, and addressing any issues
• Optimising routes where needed, scheduling deliveries, and ensuring timely departures to meet customer deadlines
• Monitoring driver hours, vehicle maintenance, and adherence to relevant transport regulations (e.g., Driver Working Time Directives)
• Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) such as delivery times, vehicle utilisation, and fuel consumption to identify areas for improvement
• Plan, manage and control labour usage to achieve budget productivity levels and financial spend
• Manage the holiday calendar, process holiday requests and ensure driver resource levels match customer volume requirements
• Responding to unexpected situations like traffic delays, vehicle breakdowns, or customer issues, making necessary adjustments to maintain service levels
• Maintaining clear communication with drivers, clerks, customers, and other departments regarding updates and potential issues
• Preparing shift reports detailing operational performance, highlighting any critical issues, and proposing solutions

• Excellent interpersonal skills and leadership qualities
• Logistics knowledge: Thorough understanding of transport operations, including route planning, vehicle management, and industry regulations
• Communication skills: Excellent verbal and written communication to interact with drivers, customers, and other stakeholders
• Decision-making skills: Ability to make quick and informed decisions under pressure
• Previous experience of managing teams in a similar FMCG operation to include experience of unionised environments
• Exceptionally high levels of health and safety standards and food quality and integrity
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to changes to meet the demands of the business and those placed on MBUK by our customer
• A team player, who works effectively and proactively with the team, building positive working relationships
• Able to organise and prioritise workloads in a high pressured environment
• Good communication skills, with the ability to deal with individuals at all levels either internally or externally
• Innovative, forward thinking, able to think ‘outside the box’ and generate new opportunities for improvement
• Understanding of Lean principles with the ability to co-ordinate required inputs to meet MB Global benchmark requirements
• Experience of scheduling systems (Paragon)
• AS400/ JD EDWARDS
• Aware of all current and pending industry legislation and developments
• CPC preferred but not essential
• Good level of computer literacy including Microsoft Office
• Adaptability
• Quality Work Output
• Service Orientation
• Resourcefulness
• Teamwork

CPC preferred but not essential