Transport Controller

**Job Description: Transport Controller**

**About the Company
**Powerday is a thriving, modern family business providing a friendly, caring and exciting place to
work. A leading London recycling and waste management company, we help clients - including the
construction sector, commercial premises, local authorities, and other waste management
companies - manage their resources as sustainably as possible. To us that means helping clients
keep materials in their highest form to retain their value, recycling as much as possible and
recovering the rest of their waste to generate energy. It means operating six sites across London to
maximise our efficiency and minimise transport emissions and investing in state-of-the-art
technology to enable 100% diversion of waste from landfill, with all sites run on renewable energy to
help minimise the carbon footprint of our operations.

It’s important to us to be at the forefront of our industry. We invest and innovate to achieve best
practice in environmental, health & safety, quality, and fleet management. We support our
employees to gain the knowledge and skills needed to meet these commitments, and we retain the
accreditations and reporting systems to prove our achievements.

We have a strong community ethos and support our local communities in many ways. We help
young, disadvantaged Londoners, through the power of sport with the Powerday Foundation
- supported by our close links with London Boxing and Down Syndrome Swimming - and through the
provision of career opportunities with Powerday Academy. Our work in the community is as
important to us as our waste management services and we encourage our employees to get
involved in our community activities.

Powerday operates from well-presented, comfortable offices with on-site secure, free parking
- though we encourage use of public transport (our Head Office is a short walk from Willesden
Junction station) or cycling (we operate a Cycle to Work scheme) where possible. Our offices are
well-equipped with kitchens and break-out areas, and our head office has gym facilities available to
all employees.

As a team, we all work hard and to high standards, but we have fun whilst doing so. The company
offers great training and development opportunities through the Powerday Academy and provides
health and wellbeing support which helps ensure we remain a healthy, happy, and productive team.

**The Role**:
Reporting to the Head of Transport, the Transport Controller will be responsible for supervising the
safe, profitable and compliant operation of the transport department. The role includes working
closely with the other members of the team and contributing to maintaining excellent management
of the operation whilst seeking constant improvements to service and profitability.***

**Key responsibilities of the role are**:

- High quality scheduling and allocation of work to be completed daily across all

collection modes (Skip, RoRo, Dustcart, CoSHH, Trade Waste and Cage Vans)
- Communicating directly with customers and drivers to ensure the highest levels of

service are achieved and maintained.
- Controlling our drivers via our two-way radio system throughout the day to monitor

their progress and take necessary measures to ensure that the work is completed

each day.
- Daily use of our operational system (Weighsoft) to ensure all work is completed and

reporting of any work not completed is thorough.
- Work closely with the Customer Service and Sales Departments
- Allocate and issue certificates for Crane Tested Skips for drivers ensuring there is a

suitable amount of time left on them before sending them out to customer site.
- Responsible for ensuring the daily driver debriefs are carried out for Trade Waste

collections
upon the drivers’ return to the office.
- Be actively aware of the vehicle maintenance and repairs required reporting any issues

daily to the Head of Transport.
- Will involve visits to Powerday sites
- Maintain driver records electronically and in paper format.

**Key competencies of the role**
- Excellent knowledge of London and the challenges of planning routes across the capital
- Be self-motivated with a friendly and approachable manner.
- Ambitious and confident with a real _can-do _attitude.
- Self-assured communicator, both verbal and written.
- Good team player as you will be required to work with a range of personnel internally

and externally.
- Work well under pressure and to set timelines in a professional manner.

**Qualifications/Experience**
- Intermediate level of Microsoft Office skills.
- Essential to have had at least three years’ experience of working in a similar roles in the

Waste Management and Recycling industry.