Job Title: Transport Supervisor
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: £35,636.23 - £37,017 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF55999
At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Transport, Receipts and Issues Supervisor at our Walsall site.
The role
As a Transport, Receipts and Issues Supervisor, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Our site is responsible for converting and producing specialist vehicles, and you will manage and organise the drivers on site.
Day-to-day, you'll manage operations for 4 drivers and 2-yard operatives, staffing, overtime, collection, delivery of vehicles, planned vehicle maintenance and manage driver availability.
- Liaise with all departments for transport demands.
- Interface with Production, Quality, Business Support and Key Account Managers to actively manage dispatch of vehicles and ensure relevant paperwork is complete.
- Ensure drivers download driver's card and download truck tachos.
- Ensure all vehicle movements are carried out maximising efficiencies.
- Review and update the Training Register
This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at Walsall.
Essential experience of the Transport, Receipts and Issues Supervisor
- Supervisory/management experience
- Transport background
- FORS accreditation desirable
- Knowledge of tachograph laws desirable
Qualifications for the Transport, Receipts and Issues Supervisor
- UK Driving Licence
- CPC desirable
- HGV Licence desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Early finish on Fridays
- Welcome bonus of £1000
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 10/05/24
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