Driver Administrator

About our opportunity:
**Join Our Team as a Driver Administrator**

Are you ready to drive excellence in driver administration and be the central force behind a seamless transport operation? We're looking for a dynamic individual to join us in this pivotal role.


What you will be doing:
As a Driver Administrator, your primary mission is to provide vital admin support to both our Area Transport Managers and Drivers, fostering a cohesive and efficient transport team. By centralising driver administration, you'll play a key role in ensuring a standardised and streamlined approach.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Weekly Drivers Pay**: Manage and oversee the timely and accurate processing of weekly drivers' pay.
- **Exceptional Admin Skills**: Tackle and resolve any driver pay queries promptly and efficiently.
- **Holiday Management**: Collaborate with transport areas to handle drivers' holidays and generate insightful holiday reports.
- **Return to Work Coordination**: Administer the process behind drivers' return to work, ensuring a smooth transition.
- **Licence Checks**: Process and update driver license checks, maintaining compliance with regulatory standards.
- **Informative Reports**: Produce weekly reports, such as wages versus tacho and drivers' hours, to keep operations optimised.
- **Communication Hub**: Keep an open line of communication with drivers on leave, providing necessary support.
- **Feedback**: Coordinate between drivers and the management team, offering valuable insights and feedback.
- **Benchmarking Excellence**: Benchmark drivers to assist trainers in continually improving standards.
- **Adaptive Admin**: Tackle general admin tasks with flexibility and efficiency

About you:
**Experience/Qualifications/Skills**:

- **Tech Savvy**: Proficient in IT systems, including Excel and PowerPoint for effective data management and presentations.
- **Training Proficiency**: Capability to review and update EMR’S Trade 2 system, ensuring continuous improvement.
- **Proactive Motivator**: A self-motivated individual who thrives in a proactive work environment and meets stringent deadlines.
- **Effective Communicator**: Good admin skills and the ability to interpret written instructions, along with excellent communication skills with co-workers and managers.
- **Tech-Enabled**: Ability to use smartphones/handheld computers for efficient workflow.

**Personal Characteristics**:

- **Methodical Mindset**: Take a methodical approach to work, ensuring precision in every task.
- **Calm Under Pressure**: Demonstrate patience and composure, especially in high-pressure situations.
- **Team Player**: Work effectively unsupervised, collaborating seamlessly with co-workers and managers.
- **Adaptable Leader**: Ability to follow instructions while having the confidence to discuss changes with the line manager when necessary.
- **Conflict Resolver**: A good communicator adept at avoiding conflicts and fostering a positive working environment.
- **Cultural Advocate**: Promote the company's culture and procedures with a 'can-do attitude.'

Who we are?
European Metal Recycling is a global leader in sustainable materials with physical operations in the UK, USA, Germany and the Netherlands. Our core business is the recycling of metal and plastics from a range of public, commercial and industrial waste streams. Our recycling activities generate around 10 million tonnes of sustainable materials every year, saving over 10 million tonnes of CO2.

Our mission is to have great people serving our customers with dependable recycling solutions. EMR is still privately owned, with family values at its core. It’s a place where we care about our people, our customers, our workplace and our communities. We offer diverse and exciting career opportunities where individuals can make a difference and are recognised and rewarded for their hard work.

It goes without saying that you will need the correct licences or certificates for a variety of our roles.

**We Care**
- Integrity - you are Respectful and Honest
- Trust - you are Collaborative and Authentic

**We Do**
- Accountable - you are Determined and Responsible
- Innovative - you have a Growth Mind-set and you are Progressive

If we all carry out our roles in line with these Behaviours, we will achieve success as One Team. If you embody our Behaviours, we want to hear from you

Package Description
Attractive salary plus great benefits such as:

- Bonus scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus each year you will have the option to buy and sell leave
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Support to include Life Assurance and critical illness pay
- 24/7 Colleague Assistance Programme and Financial Wellbeing Support - access to affordable loans, savings accounts, advanced earned pay, and financial education via salary finance
- Online savings
- major retailers, utilities, entertainment plus many more