Transport Team Manager
Posted on October 31st, 2025
Bristol
£ - £ per hour
Type of Job: Temporary
Staffline is recruiting for a Transport Team Manager to join our client's Distribution Centre in Emerald Park, Bristol.
If you're looking to utilise your transport leadership experience and showcase drive, determination, and enthusiasm, we want to hear from you!
You will possess a passion for colleague safety and wellbeing, employee engagement and development, customer relationships and growth and operational improvement and innovation. Also, a great opportunity to progress your transport career for the right candidate. Temp to perm opportunity available.
Shift pattern: Any 5 from 7- 22:00 to 0600
PAYE pay rates for the first 12 weeks are as follows:
Monday to Friday: £ per hour
Saturday & Sunday: £ per hour
Your Time at Work
Key Responsibilities:
1. Reporting to the Transport Shift Manager with the responsibility for a team of Transport Clerks & Drivers
2. Proactively motivating the team to achieve planned targets and deadlines by providing guidance and encouragement.
3. To ensure the operation achieves targeted daily and weekly KPI's, through effective use of the customer's computerised Integrated Transport Management System.
4. To ensure the department provides a quality first class service to the customer and stores.
5. To ensure the department operates within the legal constraints of the site operator's licence.
6. Ensure the operation is fully compliant with legislation.
Our Perfect Worker
7. Experience of working within a transport environment.
8. Experience of a Unionised Environment an advantage
9. Knowledge of computerised scheduling and driver management packages an advantage.
10. Knowledge and understanding of transport driver targets and transport legislation
11. Excellent interpersonal skills and team management
12. Succeeds in building effective stakeholder relationships with the ability to influence management team's thinking to deliver high performance through a culture of accountability and ownership
Interviews are available immediately.
Key Information and Benefits
This is a temp-to-perm role offering genuine opportunities for career progression.
Full training will be provided.
About Staffline
Staffline is the biggest recruiter in the UK and Ireland, and we believe in putting people first. Every day, we help tens of thousands of people find work in logistics, food, transport, retail, and agriculture. We can do the same for you.
We listen to the needs of our workers and always aim to offer flexible shift work and opportunities for overtime, as we know these are important to you.
Each of our locations has dedicated 24-hour OnSite support, so you can always speak to a Staffline representative. Staffline is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.