Transport Supervisor

Kineton, England, gb

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Transport Supervisor

Kineton, Warwickshire, United Kingdom | Kontraktlogistik | Vollzeit | JR2504_0013

Be the direct connection to our customer and make a meaningful difference every day.

Your Role

Responsible for overseeing daily operations, ensuring effective management and engagement of transport colleagues at Road transport Kineton & Gosport. It focuses on maintaining safety, compliance, service, and cost control while fostering a positive work environment that drives operational success. You will ensure continuous legal and safety compliance, adhering to JSP/Civil authority regulations, all while supporting agreed service levels and transport KPIs."

Your Responsibilities

• Work with the Transport manager to ensure all driver colleagues in the team have received relevant training and all safety equipment is fit for purpose.
• Conduct colleague safety observations and hazard reporting. Promptly respond to any safety concerns, unsafe acts and near miss reports raised by employees. Submitting and raising Near Miss, Safety Concerns and Unsafe acts observed while carrying out your daily duties is every colleague’s responsibility.
• Forward report all Accidents / incidents to the safety compliance team, complete thorough investigations, enter data online, reporting using QSHE Business Tool (QBT)
• To directly supervise a team of driver colleagues and to report directly to your Line Manager. Effectively cascade company and site information by engaging on site and remote driver colleagues, ensuring that within the team they feel valued and engaged.
• Monitor and ensure all driver training, especially KN mandated training requirements are achieved in line with requirements. Ensure all training records are completed and maintained.
• Drive compliance and analyse driver performance within the Microlise route, POD and telematics, carrying out driver Dispatch / debrief duties and complete scheduled reporting data and briefings
• Ensure all areas in your control remain compliant with EU and UK Transport legislation, the management of driver’s Road Transport Working Time Regulations 2005 and EU Drivers’ hours to ensure drivers take all their appropriate breaks.
• Complete regular tachograph analysis to take place and all infringements are actioned and notified to the Transport Managers for appropriate action to be taken. Drivers are also to be notified of infringements as and when they are identified

Your Skills and Experiences

• Experience within an operations environment that demonstrates the capability to build, lead, supervise and motivate a team
• Experience of supervising a transport operating with specific reference to the movement of Class 1 to 9
• Preferable to hold a Manager CPC National Road Haulage Certificate
• Preferable (to be completed within agreed timescales): Basic Induction, Introduction to Health & Safety.
• Up to date knowledge of transport legislation
• Knowledge of quality, health, safety and environment (QSHE) requirements

Please be aware that by applying for thisrole, you are agreeing to participate in the employment screeningprocess. This process will include criminal record checking and identityvalidation. This means that KN will ask successful applicants to providecertain information and documentation to enable these checks to be conducted.
Any appointment will then be strictlyconditional upon, and subject to, the receipt of satisfactory results of thesechecks

Good Reasons to Join

If you would like to become a valued member of our team, we will make sure that you’re rewarded for your commitment and expertise. You can join the contributory Kuehne+Nagel pension plan and enjoy our Route 2 Rewards scheme which offers everything from discounts, benefit information, recognition and its own wellbeing centre. We care for our colleagues (and their immediate family) with our employee assistance programme providing access to 24/7 GP, legal and financial advice along with mental health counselling. All of this to help you live a happier and healthier life As proud holders of the Gold Covenant, we are a forces-friendly employer who recognise the skills, expertise and value service leavers bring to our organisation.

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