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About The Role
As a Transport Operator, you'll be helping maintain the smooth, efficient running of our distribution network, ensuring productivity targets, agreed key customer service levels and KPIs are achieved within budget. You’ll help manage the general transport office and support Partners within the Transport teams. When the Transport Section Manager is off duty, you’ll deputise in their absence.
About The Role
As a Transport Operator, you'll be helping maintain the smooth, efficient running of our distribution network, ensuring productivity targets, agreed key customer service levels and KPIs are achieved within budget. You’ll help manage the general transport office and support Partners within the Transport teams. When the Transport Section Manager is off duty, you’ll deputise in their absence.
Salary range - £30,000 - £46,500 per annum
Please note this role will attract an additional 33.33% night shift premium of the base rate.
Contract type - This position is Permanent
Work Pattern - 37.5 hours, 22:00 to 06:00 on a rota basis, which includes weekend working.
Key Responsibilities
It's a fast paced and sometime complex area to work in. Day-to-Day responsibilities will include:
* Ensuring the health & safety of all those working in the transport team is top priority and the appropriate procedures are adhered to.
* Maintaining good housekeeping standards.
* Ensuring the operation and those working in it remain fully compliant under EU driving regulations and the Working Time Directive.
* Supporting the management team with their Partners and creating an environment for development.
Essential Skills/experience You'll Need
* Good literacy and numeracy skills.
* Good computer literacy skills.
* Knowledge of basic Health and Safety procedures.
* Supply Chain experience.
* Transport/Warehouse Office experience.
Desirable Skills/experience You May Have
* Good working knowledge of IT systems (email/MS Office/Paragon).
* National CPC qualification.
About The Partnership
We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.
We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.
We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.
As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.
Important points to note:
It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.
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Retail
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