The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title:Transport Supervisor / Lead Driver
Location:Enstone, Oxfordshire, UK
Contract and Shift details: Six Months Fixed Term Contract (with high potential to become Permanent) – Monday – Friday – 48 hours per week.
What You’ll Be Doing:
As Transport Supervisor, you’ll play a pivotal role in the daily operation of our transport team. Reporting to the Transport Manager, you’ll be responsible for driver coordination, vehicle compliance, and delivery execution. You’ll help ensure our customers are served on time, in full (OTIF), and to the highest safety and legal standards.
Your role will include:
* Leading daily transport operations, including planning, dispatching, and problem-solving
* Managing driver schedules, holiday approvals, and return-to-work processes
* Ensuring full legal compliance of vehicles, PMIs, and driver hours
* Monitoring KPIs, addressing driver infringements, and conducting performance reviews
* Investigating incidents and promoting a strong safety-first culture through “Target Zero” initiatives
* Supporting training and development including CPCs, toolbox talks, and driver assessments
* Collaborating with cross-site teams and attending daily operations meetings
* Acting as a key point of contact for out-of-hours issues during your working pattern
What We’re Looking For:
Essential:
* Experience in a traffic or transport office setting would be highly beneficial.
* Proficient working knowledge of transport compliance, driver hours, and tachograph analysis
* Solid IT skills, ideally with experience in Paragon, Microlise, or similar
* Excellent communication, people management, and conflict resolution skills
* Willingness to work shifts and provide 6-day operational coverage
Desirable:
* IOSH Managing Safely qualification
* Experience with bulk blowing equipment
* Knowledge of UFAS and biosecurity standards
* OLAT or Transport Manager CPC (or working toward)
About The Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it.From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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