Night Transport Manager

New role available for a Transport Night Manager, based at our clients Heston site near to Heathrow Airport.

This every expanding Freight Forwarding, Warehousing and Fulfillment business now opearte nationwide via 8 Warehouses at 7 locations, with over 1300 employees

The role itself a Night Transport Manager is a Sunday to Thursday role with working hours of 2200 hours to 0600 hours

Role Summary
The Night Transport Manager manages and coordinates the transport network through the night operation, ensuring the successful movement of UK and International product, in and around the UK to our customers, suppliers and sites. The Night Transport Manager assists in making strategic decisions that affect the overall operation, including cost and service.

Summary of the type of individual the client are looking for is :
- Persuasive, but fair when dealing directly with drivers.
- Good verbal skills
- Ability to communicate clearly on e mail as this person will be in direct contact with some of our clients biggest customers
- Ability to use and manipulate a spreadsheet would be good
- Overall good with systems on PC as they will use a Parcel Tracking and a Vehicle Tracking system.
- Knowledge of trucks and the compliance and law to keep them on the road
- CPC desirable, but would consider taking someone on, who would be prepared to sit the course and once completed would receive a salary increase
- A really flexible approach to work as there will likely be out of hours contact
- Laptop and mobile provided.


The initial salary is 50k pa. After probation and obtaining a CPC the client would look to increase to 55k

Your Responsibilities
What you do
- Manage and control the transport budget and service levels for each contract
- Ensuring the sites have processed deliveries and loading accurately.
- Carry out site security procedures and checks.
- Complete ad hoc vehicle checks to ensure pre checks are being completed and additional equipment required is serviceable.
- Responsible for ensuring mandatory training is scheduled and training record cards maintained. Scheduling all training and assessment activity.
- All vehicle and FLT maintenance is scheduled.
- Regular reporting to management on results and ensuring follow-up action where required.
- Accountable for incident and accident control and preparing paperwork for any regulatory bodies. Ensuring completion of accident investigations and H&S Documents on H&S System.
- Liaising with and managing staffing schedules to customer requirements.
- Reviewing amending where necessary, delivery routes and schedules.
- Identifying and proactively booking agency cover where required.
- Cost Management, approving agency timesheets and ensuring agency spend controls are in place.
- Direct responsibility for the network transport operation out of hours.
- Managing all administration, customer quotes, invoicing and operating IT systems and processes for each customer.
- Accountable for vehicle and driver compliance, reviewing telematics and infringements are actioned in a timely manner.
- Monitoring stock accuracy and loss.
- Reducing cost within the operation, especially sub-contracting, whilst maintaining service levels.
- Accountable for drivers' hours, holidays and rest days.
- Proactively recruiting skilled colleagues, keeping labour turnover to a minimum.
- Proactive recovery planning.