Job title: Driver Manager
Location: Staines
Salary: £55000 per year plus a car allowance of £300
Reporting to: Managing Director
Driver Manager Duties:
Drive engagement with driving team and customers
To carry out driver appraisals and direct report appraisals and improve staff skills and identify any training needs.
To conduct any disciplinary, grievance or absence management reviews in accordance with Company policy.
To carry out return to work interviews
To ensure all drivers are inducted effectively.
To ensure that staff welfare issues are dealt with effectively.
Driver Manager Skills:
Strong people management abilities,
Proven leadership skills are essential to provide strategic and day to day direction to your team and be an effective manager of collective relationships in a unionised environment
Mentoring/coaching skills in the progression of the deliverables of the business
Self-reliant and straightforward communicator with skill sets to promote the customer facing business, in a positive light with the capacity to inspire in a structured and encouraging way
Aptitude to build and maintain stakeholder relations indicative of a professional leader.
A professional manner, a can-do attitude and good communications and interpersonal skills are a must.
An up-to-date PCV licence and DQC is essential
PSV Transport Management CPC or working towards in the first year
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