Transport Supervisor - Coalville, United Kingdom - MTS Logistics

MTS Logistics

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Coalville, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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Job Title:
Transport Supervisor _

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Company: MTS Logistics _

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Location: Coalville _

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Working Hours:
Night Shifts - 20:00pm - 07:00am, Sunday night through to Friday morning (weekend overtime cover possible)_
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Salary: £28,000 - £30,000per annum_

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Start date: ASAP_

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Reporting into: Operations Director _

Are you a 'yes' person, someone who's got a great team spirit, enjoys working under pressure, thrives in an atmospheres where others rely on them as much as they rely on others and a fast learner? If this sound like you then we would love to hear from you and if you have the right attitude we can train you up to your full potential leading you into a you a long and happy career here within the MTS Logistics Family.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a great Family business that has a brilliant team in a busy transport office.

The role is to supervise the transport night shift operation, proactively communicating with customers and drivers to ensure service levels and key performance indicators are routinely maintained.

Accountability/Daily Tasks

To complete daily routing of vehicles
Review and prepare driver plan and timed deliveries for next day and allocate vehicles to meet delivery requirements for the network activity and update information to all relevant parties
Review movement requirements and make necessary arrangements for additional resource to meet any predicted shortfall.
Closely liaise with warehouse as well as transport to assure a fluent loading of vehicles and ensuring all vehicle movements are on time.
Make necessary arrangements for repair action to trailer or tractor units and ensuring fleet availability meets with operations requirements and escalating any risks/nonavailability to the relevant Manager.
Preparing and communicating a formal handover each day, providing a written report including status, service failure and resource availability
To react quickly and use own initiative to any issues that occur throughout the shift, with immediate escalation to on call Manager when required.
General administration updating report, scanning/filing paperwork.
Driver outbrief/debriefs and ensuring all issues from them are reported and actioned.

Qualifications & Experiences

Supervisory experience
PC literate
Good communicator with excellent customer service
Organised/methodical
Ability to work within a deadline orientated Transport operation
Selfmotivated
Ability to use initiative/Problem solving skills
Must work well as part of a team
Ability to operate Haultech Planning Software or similar transport information systems would be advantageous