Transport Supervisor - Lincolnshire, United Kingdom - Logistica Professional Recruitment

Logistica Professional Recruitment

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Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Company

We are pleased to be working with an outstanding market leader in food production, who are investing heavily in new technology and staff to meet the changing needs of today's food supply chains.

The Role - Transport Supervisor? - Nights
Reporting to the Transport Manager the Transport Supervisor (nights) will be responsible for around 20 vehicles and 30 drivers. You will be solely responsible for the pick-up of products from sites as efficiently as possible.

Other responsibilities include:

Coordinating the pickup of product from sites across the UK
Keeping quality at the foremost of any decision
Identifying cost savings when they arise
Planning routes in a costeffective manor
Outsourcing work to external logistics companies and managing that relationship
Looking for efficiencies on every possible occasion.
Communication with the different sites and customers to ensure a fast turnaround with high levels of customer service.
Avoiding bottlenecks at sites and spreading the load of returns and reorders.
Ensuring Health and Safety levels are always high.
Monitoring 3PL performance.
Liaising with all relevant internal departments.

The Hours
6pm - 6am

4 days on - 4 days off

The Skills Required

The successful applicant for the Transport Supervisor role will have worked in a similar position before, clearly demonstrated on their CV.

They will also have the following skills and experiences:

Minimum of 2 years in a driver management role.
A strong understanding of working time directives and drivers' hours.
Ability to interpret and use tachograph analysis
Have planned transport routes in the past
A highly customer focused attitude.
Outstanding communication skills
The ability to make changes to existing ways of working in a confident and positive way.
Efficient in MS Excel and other Office programs.
Commutable to Lincoln daily.