ACCOUNTABILITIES : Support and assist the Transport Manager to ensure all functions of the operation run smoothly and efficiently. On shift basis, direct, monitor and control all driver performance. Ensure that targets and standards are achieved, and procedures followed. Complete all Auditable functions/records required by the Company. Ensure Training needs and paperwork is completed as recommended by the Company and all records are filed and stored as requested. Check with Transport Manager to ensure vehicle and trailer daily temperature form is completed and up to date. These must be filed and kept for a minimum of 12 months. Ensure document is Audit ready from either the customer or local authorities. Check with Transport Manager to ensure weekly driver Temperature Probe records are completed and up to date. These must be filed and kept for a minimum of 12 months. Ensure document is Audit ready from either the customer or local authorities. Check with Transport Manager to ensure Vehicle/Trailer weekly wash form is completed and up to date. These must be filed and kept for a minimum of 12 months. Ensure document is Audit ready for the local authorities. Check with Transport Manager to ensure weekly Diesel Area inspection form is completed and up to date. These must be filed and kept for a minimum of 12 months. Ensure document is Audit ready for the local authorities. Ensure Agency disclaimer forms are maintained and up to date. These must be filed and kept for a minimum of 12 months. Ensure document is Audit ready for VOSA. Assist your Transport manager with all vehicle / trailer defects. Be able to add a defect fault on 9080 and have the ability to VOR. Assist your Transport Manager with monitoring fuel stock levels and when fuel is required email Head office. (fuelorders@yearsley.co.uk) Assist your Transport Manager to report monthly fuel tank dips and pump readings to head office. (fuelorders@yearsley.co.uk) In the absence of your Transport Manager speak daily with Heywood transport planner and agree tomorrows planned routes. Lease with Heywood planner to try and fill empty running. Monitor driver performance by means of the RCOM system. Report poor performance to your Transport Manager. Monitor driver delivery performance by means of the 1154 Managers copy or PODLI. Inform delivery/collection locations when drivers are to arrive late. Report to Heywood PODLY / Customer Services when any such issue arises. Assist your Transport Manager with training documents and file and scan if required. Assist your Transport Manager to ensure vehicle service schedules are maintained and that they are on view. Service sheets must be scanned and filed to their respective folder in YG.Net. Inform head office of the vehicle registration and date of the service. Inform your Transport Manager of any personal or vehicle accidents Inform your Transport Manager/Heywood maintenance of all breakdowns. Book agency drivers if required. Compile drivers run sheet and paperwork Assist your Transport Manager with Working Time (WTD) and recorded weekly in YG.Net. Assist your Transport Manager ensuring Driver Digital Tachograph information is downloaded weekly. Paper Tachograph charts must be filed for a minimum period of 12 months. Vehicles that operate a digital Tachograph must be downloaded within 56 days. Understand the importance of entering orders via the NFPO system using only the suppliers advised by the company and ensure the NFPO Order system is used in the correct manner for all purchases. Monitor Drivers attendance and timekeeping by use of the TMS reporting systems. Assist your Transport Manager to ensure a random Driver Super Debrief is performed weekly. HEALTH & SAFETY You as an employee are responsible for health and safety to protect you and the staff around you. You will maintain a proactive approach towards all H&S orientated issues and always endeavour to resolve any issues arising on shift. Why Lineage? We are a global company with more than 22,000 employees spanning 20 countries and more than 400 locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. At Lineage Logistics, we have a shared purpose; we are transforming the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world. This means working at Lineage is not just a job – it’s an opportunity to innovate and put your mark on how food moves from the farm to dinner tables around the world. As a member of our team, you will be a critical link in the food supply chain. Our shared purpose drives everything we do in all parts of our organisation, from the warehouse floor to the office. Our team members are passionate about the impact they make every single day. We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. At Lineage we also recognise that Ex-Military, veterans, and military families have great experience with transferable skills and core values that can add significant value to our organisation. Benefits As a Lineage team member, we aim to provide everything you and your family need to thrive. That’s why we offer competitive rates of pay, paid time off, skills training, and development opportunities to grow a long and fulfilling career with us – plus generous financial rewards when you successfully refer new employees. This is enhanced by recognition schemes (so that your hard work won’t go unnoticed), plus the chance to make your salary go even further with our cycle-to-work scheme and preferential rates for loans and savings courtesy of a leading credit union. Your everyday wellbeing is also important to us, so we will provide you with all the protective equipment you need to be safe and comfortable at work, and you will have access to a free 24/7 employee assistance phone line, which offers confidential counselling and advice. With all of this offered against the backdrop of a fun and social environment in which you will be supported by a team who enjoy helping each other in achieving their goals, we are confident you will excel with us.