CURRENTLY BASED IN LUTTERWORTH BUT FROM JULY IT WILL BE FROM DAVENTRY
Pay Rate: Earn up to £41,318.45 - including a strong base salary of £36,565 plus a 13% shift premium
Grade: N
Contract Type: Permanent (Full-Time)
Shift patterns: Nights Sunday to Thursday, 10pm to 6am
Location: Will be based at Daventry from July
Right now, we're looking for a Transport First Line Manager who's ready to step up, take ownership, and make a real impact.
If you're a hands‑on leader with the drive to push performance and the ambition to be part of something bigger - this is your moment.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
* Take leadership responsibility for managing a safe and efficient transport environment.
* To maximise the performance of drivers and supervisors by directing the nightly, weekly and monthly activities.
* Analysing and understanding health and safety related risks for our colleagues, take action to reduce or eliminate these risks according to a prioritized plan
* Implement actions as directed to reduce or eliminate health and safety related risks
* Leverage Behavioral Based Safety (BBS) program as a daily way to confirm behaviors and processes
* Report and investigate incidents within the workplace and respond to or escalates issues of non‑compliance to safety regulations and procedures
* Implement and supervise the adherence of up‑to‑date processes, work instructions, standard operating procedures and associated forms to achieve prescribed outputs
* Continuously contribute to the improvement of procedures to better achieve the prescribed outputs
* Liaise with suppliers based on business requirements, monitor performance and where necessary, propose improvements to line manager and implement agreed improvement actions
* Participate in customer, regulatory and internal operational audits as required and work with the team to implement the agreed action plan
* Conduct regular reviews on operational performance and delivery against the agreed KPIs
* Escalate any areas of non‑compliance or failure to line manager and where applicable escalates to the senior team
* Management of Subcontractor and help implement agreed processes to review performance,
* Leads regular operational performance reviews with colleagues with focus on H&S and Legal Compliance, overall efficiency of the operation in line with targets and performance via Performance Dialogs
* Foster Collaboration: Build a strong team culture that values communication, accountability and teamwork. Together, we’ll achieve great results!
THIS ROLE WOULD SUIT PEOPLE WHO
* 2 to 5 years operational experience
* Transport Management
* Continuous Improvement
* National and International CPC Desirable
* IIRSM Risk Assessor (desirable)
* IIRSM Risk Management (desirable)
* CSCS Foundation (desirable)
WHY JOIN US
* Join our generous pension scheme and benefit from an 8% employer contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution
* Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations
* Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts
* Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice
* Visit https://careers.dhl.com/global/en/working-at-dhl-supply-chain to learn more
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