Night Shift Transport Manager

The main functionality of the role is to manage drivers, vehicles and routes in accordance with the company's KPIs and Legal Compliance. You will ensure all routes are dispatched and where necessary arrange cover for sickness / overloads and work closely with the Night Operations team to create a unified team ensuring all targets are achieved. Shift Pattern - 5 nights out of 6, Sunday - Friday with a start time of 10:30pm What you will do: Route Management:

• Ensure all routes are dispatched and where necessary arrange cover.
• Manage route leaving times to meet the company's OTIF targets.
• Complete the vehicle sheet which includes department times and driver owner.
• Ensure that vehicles are loaded properly.
• Administration of the driver app.
• Issue tablets and logging the information on the system
• Update spreadsheets with route details and any other relevant information
Team Management:
• Oversee that all office duties are carried out within the shift inc. logging data and vehicle compliance.
• Complete the driver register, ensuring all drivers arrive for shift.
• Check Driver's uniforms daily to ensure that they are compliant.
• Complete the handover with the Day team and ensure all reports and information is passed over.
• Management of the Night Office including printing invoices and assigning routes.
Health and Safety:
• Enforce all Health and Safety requirements and all compliance and legislation is communicated, understood and adhered to by your team.
Compliance:
• Complete driving licence checks including weekly spot checks.
• Assist with vehicle defects and VOR
• Ensure that collection weights are within compliance.
• Ensure that vehicle routes are compliant.
• Ensure that the Manage Process Procedure is followed.
  
  HGV Classification is desirable.
• Current DQC CPC Qualification is desirable.
• Strong analytical skills using KPI Dashboards.
• Competent in GPS and route manifests
• Experience working with paperless deliveries
• Passionate about training and developing others
• Organised with a good attention for detail.
• Flexible and professional approach.
• A team player with a strong 'can do' attitude.
  
  Wellocks, is one of the leading UK food distributors in the hospitality industry. We provide fruit, vegetables, dairy, eggs, poultry, meat, store cupboard essentials and everything else chefs will need in their restaurant kitchen. Thanks to our highly skilled team, we also offer pre-prepared veg and freshly-made pasta which is a key part of our service.
From our humble beginnings in 1961 supplying potatoes to local pubs and restaurants, 60 years later we now supply over 1,200 restaurant kitchens across the country with amazing ingredients. We're proud to be part of the William Jackson Food Group, a dedicated family-owned food business which started in 1851. Our sister businesses are Abel & Cole, Jacksons Bakery and Belazu. Family values and the commitment which comes with such a long-standing business are rooted in our culture here at Wellocks. Thanks for reading our job advert. We do our very best to bring to life what it†s like working as part of our team. Diverse teams really are the best teams. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. All colleagues are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying - a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.


• Fancy volunteering? We will give you one day off a year to take part in volunteering.
• Generous discounts on our products
• Cycle to Work Scheme that offers discounted bikes and cycling equipment.
• Donate through your pay to a charity of your choice. The money is simply deducted through your pay before tax, so for every pound you donate, the 20p that usually goes to tax will go to the charity instead!
• We also have a range of employee assistance services which can be tailored to give you support on various matters such as financial, health and wellbeing advice.
• We treat our teams to a free meal every few months, from our visiting fish & chip van, to freshly made bacon baps from our in-house chefs