Fleet Manager

1 month ago

Ipswich Suffolk, United Kingdom Compass Point Recruitment Full time

Compass Point Recruitment have partnered with a fantastic employer locally, based south of Ipswich, who are looking for a Fleet manager to join their team. This senior management position entails direct accountability for enhancing site productivity and efficiency through optimised finished goods flows. Key areas of focus include:

  • Defining medium to long-term strategies to streamline finished goods production, loading, and delivery processes.
  • Leading and managing a team of drivers and contractors.
  • Role modelling and leading appropriate personal, team, and plant safety, as well as food safety standards.
  • Liaising closely with the production team to ensure seamless integration and execution of logistics, maximizing plant uptime.
  • Budgetary accountability for approximately £1.5m logistic cost expenditure, showcasing excellent financial controls, cost discipline, and value management/purchasing principles.
Key Responsibilities: Fleet Management:
  • Acting as the site's competent person for fleet management.
  • Ensuring issuance of vehicle loading sheets to the factory and driver notes/wallets to drivers for every delivery.
  • Booking fleet with appropriate service providers, managing information flow in case of plan variations, and maintaining orderly fleet maintenance records.
  • Adhering to "O" license and other UK relevant transport legislation.
Plant Reliability, Planning, and Scheduling:
  • Identifying and minimizing logistical risks by predicting product demand.
  • Supervising raw material and finished goods inventory and distribution.
  • Collaborating with the production management team to develop yearly, quarterly, and weekly production schedules for efficient resource deployment.
  • Ensuring clarity and communication of production plans and alignment with demand plans.
Leadership and Management:
  • Leading the logistics team and exemplifying safety, technical, and professional standards.
  • Appointing, leading, and managing/supervising contract personnel.
  • Ensuring team members are trained to required competency levels and fostering flexibility.
Financial Controls:
  • Setting appropriate annual logistics budgets based on historical data and expected demands.
  • Proactively managing logistics budget and implementing expenditure control mechanisms.
  • Maintaining control over stock and goods inventory through effective stores management.
Health, Safety, and Food Safety:
  • Managing and leading safety processes, including driver license and training refreshers.
  • Conducting toolbox talks, enforcing safety standards, and ensuring compliance with food safety standards.
  • Providing safety supervision for contract personnel and overseeing safety guidelines and protocols.
Continuous Improvement:
  • Driving factory process improvements through techniques like root cause analysis and downtime analysis.
  • Contributing to plant housekeeping and GMP audits and managing logistics team standard tasks.
Measures of Success:
  • Clear logistics strategy and plans.
  • Adherence to logistics budget.
  • Decrease in logistic complaints.
  • On-time, in-full, and in-spec (OTIFIS) reports demonstrating service levels.
  • Team competency score and presence of team development plans.
Decision Making:
  • Decision rights on logistics budgeting and expenditure control.
  • Decision rights on statutory and mandatory fleet matters.
  • Consultation and information rights regarding production planning.
Key Relationships: • Engineering team, contractor workforce, plant manager, production managers, QESH manager, financial controller. About you:
  • Advantageous but not essential - bachelor's degree in logistics, business administration, or relevant certifications.
  • NEBOSH or IOSH safety certificate.
  • Knowledge of logistics planning principles, yeast manufacturing, continuous improvement, and environmental awareness.
  • Experience in food and beverage industry is ideal
  • Evident experience of leadership of fleet teams, logistics "philosophies" implementation, root cause analysis, and safety, quality, and environmental processes.
  • Computer literacy, including Microsoft Office and logistics management systems.
  • Traceability, logistics data analysis, planning, time management, relationship management, problem-solving, interpersonal, IT systems, risk management, negotiation, prioritization, and numeracy.
  • Results-focused, self-starter, determined, resilient, flexible, openness to change, commitment to safety and company values.
If this role stands out to you and matches not only your experience, but what you're looking for next, please get in touch today with your updated CV

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