Transport Assistant

Bristol, England, gb

You don’t get to be one of the nation’s largest and most loved supermarkets without a brilliant team — and our Transport colleagues are central to keeping our operations running smoothly, ensuring our customers can buy the goods they need in store. 

It’s about helping your community eat, shop, and live better, all while being part of a family that’s 187,000 people strong. After all, making the best-quality products available in-store for our customers is what we’re about. Just ask the millions of people up and down the country who choose to shop with us every week.

As a Transport Assistant, you will assist in the smooth operation of the Transport Office, compiling and maintaining documentation and managing information. You’ll ensure our drivers depart and arrive on time, processing vital information, issuing journey details, and booking staff on and off shift. 

We’re currently recruiting for a Transport Assistant on a permanent contract, working an average of 42 hours per week on a 4 on, 4 off rotating days and night shift, with the flexibility to fit the needs of our operations where required. 

More about you

  • You have excellent communication skills
  • You’re articulate and well organised
  • You use your initiative and can stay on top of several tasks at once
  • You have strong PC skills
  • You have a knowledge of transport hours and regulations
  • More about the role

  • Briefing and debriefing our drivers on both departure and return from each journey
  • Effectively communicating to customers and Sainsburys Depots, ensuring incoming calls are answered and dealt with promptly
  • Assisting the management team in providing a professional service
  • Working well within the transport team function to ensure deadlines are met
  • Generating driver journey sheets from in-house computer systems and issuing to drivers
  • Producing reports, such as missing volume, debrief status, and unconfirmed orders
  • Collating weekly information for Transport auditing purposes
  • Your benefits

  • Pre-planned shifts
  • Season ticket loan after you’ve completed 12 weeks of service and passed your probation
  • Discount card after 12 weeks that gives you 10% off your Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat shopping
  • Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
  • Cycle to work scheme available
  • Full PPE provided
  • We know that candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. We also know that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are happy to be asked. So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… why not apply and see how it goes?

    Here at Sainsbury’s Argos we’re a proud equal opportunities employer that values diversity at every level of our business. Inclusion and Diversity are fundamental to our culture and values, fostering an innovative, collaborative and fast paced work environment that means we can build a better future for our colleagues and our customers. Everyone is welcome at Sainsbury’s Argos. Want to find out more? Then visit our Diversity & Inclusion page on our Careers site –

    We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work/life balance. That’s waiting for you right here. Supply Chain and Logistics are the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories, through the business and to our millions of customers every day. We plan around events from barbecue weekends to Sunday roasts, and who wants oven-ready cauliflower cheese to those who prefer to make it from scratch. Insight and data are everything. But so is judgement — if there’s an issue or ambiguity anywhere, we’re the first to spot it. There’s a big transformation going on. That calls for people who champion change, bring others with them, collaborate and communicate. Because those people can go a very long way.

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