Head of Transport

We are seeking a strategic leader to oversee our centralised Transport function. This vital role ensures that all transport planning, management, and logistics operations run efficiently, safely, and compliantly. Working closely with the Vehicle Sales Operations team, this position is focused on leveraging technology and talent to drive performance enhancements and optimise vehicle collections.,

• Responsible for compliance on all aspects of UK & EU Laws and Regulations governing vehicle safety, environmental controls on fuel emissions, traffic congestion, driver hours etc


• Accountable for Transport Health & Safety, managing and leading change in line with HSEQ, ensuring all transport colleagues are aware of obligations and any training requirements are met


• Overall responsibility for ensuring the entire fleet is maintained and inspected accordingly


• Working with compliance team to ensure companies obligations are met and exceeded.


• Ensure SYNETIQ is working to obtain green on green OCR scores and once obtained ensuring we hold on to them


• Overall responsibility for the businesses operator's licenses. Overseeing the compliance team and transport collections team ensuring companies' operators' licenses are adequate for use and any changes are made within the correct timescales


Performance/Transport Operations

• Overall responsibility for leading Transport operations, manage, monitor & improve operational performance through KPI's ensuring operational sameness & working with Transport Scheduling teams ensuring SLAs are met and exceeded


• Collaborating effectively with Site Ops Management to ensure efficient and effective processing of vehicles


• Responsible for KPIs such as vehicle and driver utilisation, miles per drop, drops per hour and any other required metrics required such as fleet and driver costs, costs to serve etc


• Produce weekly/monthly reports for the Board, monitoring, auditing and report performance maintaining robust records and reporting frameworks in all areas of Transport and actively communicate any issues with senior managers and the Board


• Undertake strategic reviews of Transport operations to support the expected growth in vehicle collections e.g. vehicle requirements at each site, allocation of routes per site, investigation of benefit of alternative depots, cross docking or stock holding sites, benefit/net costs of Integrated Device Technology (IDT) between sites, investigate any transport benefits of a central stock holding site, any other business improvements/changes to systems or processes or interdependencies needed to achieve SLA's, improved visibility, service and reduce administration costs, review of fleet including use of trailers or larger vehicles, review of skills and resources


• Identify areas of continuous improvement and implement changes


• Review & develop processes, systems & technological requirements used to manage the vehicle collections service such as order release from Frontier, vehicle routing and scheduling, job allocation, workflow & completion data, customer visibility of booked time/status updates, interfaces between our systems such as Big Change, JobWatch, Frontier


• Overall responsibility for subcontractors, working to reduce their usage but also ensuring all subcontractors used are compliant and working to the same service standards as ourselves


• Develop, deliver and improve the operational budget ensuring fleet renewal and development are in line with company policy


• Manage and develop all transport colleagues to include driver development and training to ensure best practice is adopted making sure company/personal development plans are followed and offering support where needed, and overall ownership for Transport aspects of SYNETIQ people matrix


• Support Client team with the onboarding of new clients, ensuring collection requests are achievable and are included in our current schedules


• Identifying our evolving business needs and resource requirements in terms of vehicles per type per site, drivers per site, mileage per vehicle type per site, trunking requirements, costs


• Interpret data, understand complex demand planning and create optimal transport solutions across multiple customers, business divisions and operational locations


• Collaborate with other Senior Managers and functions to support better synergies as a team e.g. Operations, Vehicle Sales & Supply, Parts Sales, Retail Sales, Clients Team and all support functions


Leadership & Development of Direct Reports

• Take ownership of all general team health, safety, wellbeing and compliance matters, seeking support from relevant areas wherever needed, escalate as appropriate


• Recruit effectively in partnership with the People Team and induct/onboard accordingly


• Manage people resource levels to meet business need


• Manage team member's T & A (Time & Attendance) on relevant software in line with payroll cut offs


• Coach, feedback & continuously develop self and team ensuring they have the skills, knowledge & tools to perform


• Performance Management of team including up to date Job Descriptions, one to ones/feedback, clear objectives set, results measured, activities monitored, quality checks of work


• Engage & motivate team to deliver growth & continuous improvements


• Manage own & team behaviours in line with our aspirational culture, vision & values


• Communicate business goals and messages & locally manage any change


• Ensure good process management is in place and all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) are kept up to date
  
  Experience of running a high volume/fast paced Transport function


• 5 years plus Transport Management experience


• Experience of using Transport systems and technology to drive productivity


• Knowledge of O License and all Transport related legislation & compliance


• Knowledge of UK Road networks


• CPC Holder
  
  SYNETIQ Ltd., is the leading integrated salvage, dismantling and vehicle recycling company in the UK, formed to become the most innovative and trusted business in the industry. An integrated, data-driven and innovative business, SYNETIQ has led the way in raising industry standards and continually innovates ways of working to deliver great value, ensure complete compliance and provide a positive experience.
  
  Competitive basic salary


• Car Allowance


• 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)


• Ongoing training and professional development


• Free onsite parking


• Uniform and PPE provided


• Benefithub (World's largest selection of Employee Discounts and Lifestyle Benefits)


• Telus Health


• Discounted parts and non-auction vehicle


• Employee discount on Vodaphone


• Paid day to volunteer for a charity of your choice