Transport Controller
5 days ago
**Description**:
Esken Renewables is part of the Esken Group, we are on the lookout for top talent, to join our innovative and results-oriented team.
Esken Renewables is the UK’s number one supplier of biomass fuel It has long-term contracts in place to supply nearly 2 million tonnes of fuel to Energy Recovery Facilities, generating renewable energy equivalent to the annual domestic electricity needs of 2% of the UK population.
Working as a part of a winning team, we look for people who can spot the opportunity to do things better and have the ability and initiative to put excellent ideas into practice. We take pride in our dedication to delivering our best every day. We bring a can-do attitude - we just get on with it. Our culture is open and honest, agile, and flexible, and we are empowered to look for solutions and bring ideas. We are accountable, we take ownership and focus and commit to our colleagues and customers. We take care, always focus on improving, owning it together and stay connected.
**What is the job?**
Reporting directly to the Transport Manager (Widnes), as the Transport Controller your role will be to support the Transport Managers across the network and the National Transport Manager to manage the day to day running of the transport operation and its resource pool ensuring:
- Adherence to all company and legislative compliance standards.
- Managing the organisational requirements relating to drivers, vehicles, and the network.
- Ensuring standards of maintenance of vehicles are delivered both efficiently and cost-effectively to ensure mínimal downtime.
**Working Schedule**: Monday to Friday, 45 hours per week.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Completing daily risk assessments of the yard and office.
- Supporting all elements of tachograph compliance
- Recording and following through DVSA stops.
- Identifying all CPC non-compliance and report to the Transport Manager.
- Coordinating the management of absence and holidays for all drivers, depot staff and yard staff.
- Constructing resourcing levels ensuring maximum vehicle availability.
- Driver Recruitment
- Assist the Transport Manager with investigation and disciplinary proceedings.
- Validating all weekly expense claims from drivers and prepare them for authorisation by the Transport Manager.
- Ensuring all training needs are met for drivers (including inductions, re-training, SSWs and annual
appraisals).
- Managing the periodic vehicle and trailer maintenance programme
- Ensuring all relevant information relating to breakdowns and incidents is accurately recorded and available for reference.
- Ensuring that associated company maintenance records are kept to the highest level
- Updating in-house system with incidents/accidents, breakdowns, defects, and purchase orders.
- Manage the PPE across the network, working with the HSQE team, Driver Trainers and Transport Managers.
**Skills Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Essential**
- Good communicator
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in transport operations.
- Experience of managing or supervising large multi-site teams
Working knowledge of EU Drivers Hours, WTD and tachograph legislation
**Desirable**
- International/National CPC Licence Holder or willing to work towards
- IOSH Qualification or working towards
Experience of conducting initial investigations, performance checks, absence reviews and interviews.
**Why work for us?**:
We have a wide variety of additional benefits including but not exclusively:
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Access to wide variety of e-learning development and coaching and support plus annual appraisal and personal development plan
- Access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
- An engaging People Forum
- Benefits portal with access to many high street discounts
- Life Assurance
- Employee Referral Scheme up to £150
- No Agencies please._
**About Esken Ltd**:
**We are focused on delivering growth in Aviation and Renewable Energy**
Our expertise in the aviation and energy sectors span the highest levels of leadership and has been gained across core strategic, operational, and financial roles.
London Southend Airport attracts partners and passengers to destinations throughout Europe with a simple, common goal. We provide experiences that are ‘quick, easy and happy’. Star Handling provides baggage handling, check-in and logistics solutions for airports and airline partners.
And, in Esken Renewables we have a transformational and maturing business which supplies fuel to biomass plants across the UK so that they can, in turn, create renewable energy. We do this via specialist procurement, transport, operations, quality and plant management teams.
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