About the role
We are looking for a highly organised Night Shift Manager to join the Transport team at Harlow. As a Night Shift Manager, you will manage drivers, vehicles and routes in accordance with the company’s KPIs. You will ensure all routes are dispatched and where necessary arrange cover for sickness / overloads and to to work closely with the Depot Management team to create a unified team to ensure all targets are achieved.
What you will do:
Route Management:
* Ensure all routes are dispatched and where necessary arrange cover.
* Manage route leaving times to meet the company’s OTIF targets.
* Complete the vehicle sheet which includes department times and driver owner.
* Ensure that vehicles are loaded properly.
* Administration of the driver app.
* Issue tablets and logging the information on the system
* Update spreadsheets with route details and any other relevant information
Team Management:
* Oversee that all office duties are carried out within the shift inc. logging data and vehicle compliance.
* Oversee the unloading of products from the HGV vehicle to the loading of the Driver vans.
* Complete the driver register, ensuring all drivers arrive for shift.
* Check Driver’s uniforms daily to ensure that they are compliant.
* Complete the handover with the Day team and ensure all reports and information is passed over.
* Management of the Night Office including printing invoices and assigning routes.
Health and Safety:
* Enforce all Health and Safety requirements and all compliance and legislation is communicated, understood and adhered to by your team.
What you will need:
* HGV Classification is desirable.
* Current DQC CPC Qualification is desirable.
* Strong analytical skills using KPI Dashboards.
* Competent in GPS and route manifests
* Experience working with paperless deliveries
* Passionate about training and developing others
* Organised with a good attention for detail.
* Flexible and professional approach.
* A team player with a strong ‘can do’ attitude.
About us
Wellocks, is one of the leading UK food distributors in the hospitality industry. We provide fruit, vegetables, dairy, eggs, poultry, meat, store cupboard essentials and everything else chefs will need in their restaurant kitchen. Thanks to our highly skilled team, we also offer pre-prepared veg and freshly-made pasta which is a key part of our service.
From our humble beginnings in 1961 supplying potatoes to local pubs and restaurants, 60 years later we now supply over 1,200 restaurant kitchens across the country with amazing ingredients.
We’re proud to be part of the William Jackson Food Group, a dedicated family-owned food business which started in 1851. Our sister businesses are Abel & Cole, Jacksons Bakery and Belazu. Family values and the commitment which comes with such a long-standing business are rooted in our culture here at Wellocks.
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