Transport Clerk

• Contract:  Permanent / 40 Hours Per Week 
• Salary: £29,887.34
• Location:  Kingmoor Park North, Carlisle, CA6 4FD
• Days of Work:  Monday - Friday 
• Hours of Work: 22:00 - 06:30

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of over £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible. Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!!!

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer

Job Description

Purpose of Position

As a Transport Clerk you will be part of the Traffic office team and are responsible for tracking our transport routes ensuring that our HGV drivers have arrived for duties and that trailers will arrive at our Hub sites as planned. 

Key Tasks/Areas of Responsibility: 

• Working with other departments such as Hub and Network Operations, Transport and Security ensuring that updates on arrivals or any issues are communicated as quickly as possible in order to keep our operation running smoothly
• Completing licence checks for agency drivers and ensuring we remain compliant in line with O Licence Regulations
• General administrative duties such as answering telephone queries, printing route paperwork and maps
• Issuing routes to drivers
• Assisting the Transport Shift Managers and Operations Managers with any further administration
• To undertake comprehensive reporting and data analysis.

Qualifications

Key Measures of Behaviour/ Skills

Adapting and Coping:

• Adapts to fast paced and changing working environment
• Accepts new ideas and change initiatives
• Flexibility

Analysing and Interpreting:

• Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing
• Develops job knowledge and expertise through continual professional development
• Have an analytical set of mind

Supporting and Co-operating:

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Develops and openly communicates self-insight such as awareness of own strengths and weaknesses
• Demonstrates integrity

Organising and Executing:

• Manages time effectively
• Appropriately follows instructions from others
• Complies with Company policies and safety requirements of the role

Interacting and Presenting:

• Establishes good relationships with customers and staff
• Relates well to people at all levels
• Promotes ideas on behalf of self or others
• Speaks clearly and fluently

Technical skills:

• Intermediate Google Workspace knowledge: GMail, Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc.
• Knowledge of Microlise and C3 Yard management systems desired

Additional Information

About our benefits:

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few…

• Holiday trading
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package 
• Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
• Free onsite car parking for all employees
• Health Kiosks visiting every location
• Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
• Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends 
• For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities. 

If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today.