Transport Team Manager - Day Shift

Transport Team Manager - Day Shift role at Co-op

£31,000 - £34,100 per annum, plus great benefits. Day Shift 6am-2pm. 39 hours per week, full time permanent. 5 days out of 7, including weekends. Birtley CDC, Unit 2 Drum Park, Drum Industrial Estate, Chester-le-Street, DH2 1AE

We're looking for a transport team manager to join our depot in Birtley. In this role you'll be responsible for leading a team of drivers to make sure that our products are despatched from the depot and are delivered on time, safely and securely. You'll inspire, coach and lead your team to meet a variety of performance measures and mentoring your team to perform at their best at all time.

• Lead a team of drivers
• Work towards critical success transport measures
• Mentor, engage and develop your team to be high performing at all times
• Conduct performance reviews and manage performance for your team
• Manage sickness and absence
• Review and log driver infringements
• Manage driver tachographs
• Engage and build positive working relationships with various internal and external partners

• Previously managed a team, preferably from a logistics or FMCG background
• The ability to work at pace and accuracy
• A great track record of reaching and exceeding critical performance measures
• An understanding and relevant knowledge of transport compliance
• Great planning skills and able to organise your own and team's workload
• An understanding of how poor service can impact stores and customers
• Strong and confident communication skills
• Excellent IT skills

• Competitive salary (including shift allowances)
• Holiday package of 31 days per year (including bank holidays)
• 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores
• Pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Wagestream – money management app allowing you to access a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Free employee assistance programme with extensive health, financial and wellbeing support
• Access to credit unions for loans and savings, plus rental deposit loans and season ticket loans
• Free eye tests every 2 years
• On-site facilities including a subsidised canteen and free parking

We welcome applications from everyone and are committed to creating a workplace where colleagues can feel like they belong, supported by our inclusive policies and the ways we work. We are proud to be part of the Disability Confident scheme and offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for a job. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, we will support you.

We reserve the right to remove a vacancy before the scheduled closing date.