EJ826 - Transport Manager
Location: Stonehouse, Gloucester
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
Overview:
First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Transport Manager on behalf of one of our clients.
Responsible for the dispatch and distribution operations, consistently co-ordinating and optimising processes to ensure efficiency and timely delivering to customers.
Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- To manage the dispatch and distribution of site produced orders to meet customer requirements within budget and to agreed targets.
- To ensure legal compliance and the management of systems controlling and operating the fleet logistics operation, including accountability for the operators licence.
- To work closely with colleagues to drive efficiency in transport operations.
- Control and dispatch of any cross docked group orders in requested timescales.
- Manages the dispatch and distribution teams.
- Manage department costs to agreed parameters.
- Responsible for all aspects of health and safety in a dispatch and distribution environment.
- Analysing KPIs to identify opportunities to continually improve performance.
- Utilise IT systems to drive process improvements and automation of administrative tasks.
- Developing effective internal and external relationships, ensuring timely communication and a customer focused approach.
- To manage the fleet of vehicles for all group companies including vehicle ordering, compliance and servicing.
- Maintain a safe, secure and compliant environment by operating within company systems, policies and procedures.
Skills and Qualifications:
- O Licence essential
- Previous logistics management experience in a busy and demanding manufacturing environment.
- Significant people management experience.
- Able to plan and execute and deliver targets with a continual emphasis on improving performance.
- Demonstrable budget management experience.
- Multi-site / operations experience.
- Ideally holds a IOSHH qualification or has significant experience of driving improvement in health and safety within a logistics environment.
- CPC accreditation.
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