Transport Manager

We are looking to recruit a full time Transport Manager at our distribution centre in Warrington

Pay, working hours & benefits:

We offer a permanent full time position 45 hours per week, any 5 days from 7. 

Salary - £48,000

In addition to your pay you will also benefit from:

- 30 days annual leave.

- Full training provided.

- Free canteen facilities.

- 15% staff discount to use in any of our 300+ shops on a great range of food and household essentials.

- Workplace pension.

As Transport Manager you will lead your team to: 

- Monitor all delivery runs, ensuring that drivers are making deliveries on time and communicate with stores regarding any delays.

- Plan loads for the following days’ work, ensuring that your fleet is used as fully and efficiently as possible.

- Address performance issues or training needs.

- Plan, manage and adjust staffing levels to meet operational requirements.

- Have excellent attention to detail with very strong compliance in both running/managing the fleet and tachograph management.

- Accident management and investigation.

- Liaise with the wider team at the depot to ensure that operational requirements are met.

- Issue progress updates to all appropriate persons. Where necessary provide detail regarding usage of kit and confirming that stores have been notified of time changes.

- Providing a safe working environment for all by adhering to H&S procedures and ensuring they are understood and practised by the team.

- Ensuring compliance of Standard Operational Procedures (SOP’s) and ensuring the department continuously achieves a high level of customer focus & service.

You will need:

- To be a good all round communicator with excellent written and oral communication skills.

- Assertiveness, prepared to see through plans and overcome obstacles.

- Managing absence and personnel matters.

- Strong planning and organisational skills.

- A friendly, positive, hard working approach to work.

- Experience of working in a Transport environment.

- Knowledge of UK geography and road network.

- A proven track record of cost savings, productivity costs, quality control and error reduction.

- Excellent team building, leadership and motivational skills.

- Flexibility to work various shift patterns in response to customer demand.

- A Transport Manager CPC. 

- A HGV Licence is desirable not essential.

A bit about us:

Farmfoods are a family business with ambition. We pride ourselves on offering our customers great value, quality products from clean and tidy shops with the friendliest team in retail.

We aim to offer sensational value to customers on a great range of everyday family oriented goods.  We back up our sensational value with a focus on delivering an ‘old fashioned’, genuine and friendly customer experience.