Logistics Manager
Near Stoke-on-Trent
12-hour shifts / 4 on 4 off days and nights: 07:00 - 19:00 / 19:00 - 07:00
Excellent package & opportunities for development
If you would like to be responsible for providing strong leadership and for driving continuous improvement across operational performance and leading change, this is the right role for you.
Job role and duties
· Promote and maintain a “Safety First” culture
· Support and contribute to risk assessments within departments
· Ensure full compliance with Health & Safety standards, Safe Systems of Work, and current legislation
· Ensure all team members understand and adhere to safety policies
· People Leadership
· Set clear performance goals and targets for team members
· Ensure shifts are fully staffed, trained, briefed, monitored, and motivated
· Manage absence, investigations, and disciplinary matters in partnership with HR, unions, and management
· Recruit, train, and develop team members in line with company values
· Ensure compliance with Quality Assurance System (QAS) standards
· Ensure dispatched goods meet customer expectations, including code control
· Ensure vehicles are correctly documented, loaded, and secured
· Maintain responsibility for food safety, product integrity, traceability, and product withdrawal procedures
· Cost & Performance Control
· Control shift costs, including labour, absence, damage, and stock losses
· Drive efficiency and continuous improvement across logistics operations
To be considered for this role you MUST:
· Be CPC qualified (or willing and motivated to achieve qualification)
· Have proven leadership and management ability
· Possess experience in a transport or logistics operation
· Be customer focussed
· Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
· He good all round computer ability
· Be analytical and process improvement focussed
This role is UK based and does NOT have sponsorship opportunity
Our process is barrier free and we will ensure you are carefully considered for the
role you have applied for. If you have not been successful for this role,
please do apply to others or send your CV to (url removed) with a
cover letter explaining what you are looking for and we will do our best to
support your search for new employment.
This role is being advertised by the Telford office of Ethero, where you will find
access to both permanent and temporary employment across a wide range of job
sectors covering the whole of Shropshire. We also have offices in Stoke and
Burton. To find out more, go to (url removed)