Transport Team Leader - Spalding, United Kingdom - Fowler Welch
Description
Company Description
Fowler Welch - a multi award winning supply chain specialist working with retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers, providing temperature controlled warehousing allowing consolidation, storage & transport service for chilled foods.
Our
Spalding site are now recruiting for a
Transport Team Leader - Nights on a full time, permanent basis.
Working hours: 4 on 4 off - 19:00 to 07:00
Job Description:
The purpose of a
Transport Team Leader is to be responsible for leading and supervising all aspects of the night function whilst providing support to the night management team.
Key duties of a Transport Team Leader:
- Ensuring best practice across all night operations functions
- Ensuring all traffic desk functions are completed successfully, including but not confined to;
- Local and distance collections
- Traffic sheet/system husbandry
- Live traffic desk function efficient changes to existing plan
- All breakdowns and other traffic issues that arise are dealt with in a timely and responsive manner.
- Load build alterations and amendments
- Tracking and Tracing
- Discrepancy/rejection notification and reporting
- Dispatch function
- Maintain all key internal communications with day shift functions (traffic, retail fleet)
- Maintain and develop relationships with Spalding customer base
Qualifications:
- 1 years minimum FMCG distribution experience
- Experience of communicating with drivers
- Demonstrate cost control methodology within a traffic office environment
- Knowledge of temperature controlled transportation is advantageous
- Knowledge of warehouse operations to allow efficient integration of both functions is desirable
- Sound knowledge of the general logistics sector
- Detailed knowledge of relevant legislations within the transport sector
- Able to work to challenging deadlines in a pressurised environment
As part of its drive to make Fowler Welch a great place to work, we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.
Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.
- Competitive salary
- Competive holiday entitlement
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Health cash plans
- Retail discounts via our benefit platform
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