Transport Supervisor

At Thalia, we are recruiting for a Transport Supervisor to oversee a fleet of circa 35 drivers at our site in Waterbeach. You will report directly into the Logistics Manager and responsible for running the Transport operation made up of a range of vehicles from 3.5 tonnes to 44 tonnes.
Role Details
- Salary: £30,000 - £33,000
- Location: Waterbeach, CB25 9PQ
- Working hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm
- Use of Company Van for business use

**Daily responsibilities include**:

- Support the Operations Manager in ensuring all processes are followed on site and on the road.
- Assist the Transport/Compliance Manager in coordinating activities to ensure safe, legal, and efficient operations.
- Oversee fleet, equipment, and resourcing levels to meet operational demand at Waterbeach.
- Monitor driver hours, ensuring compliance with current legislation for breaks and rest periods.
- Manage the Checked Safe defect reporting system, ensuring daily and accurate use to maintain vehicle compliance.
- Coordinate vehicle maintenance, repairs, and servicing, ensuring fleet readiness.
- Lead and supervise the driver team, ensuring adherence to safety procedures and high performance.
- Ensure transport documentation is managed in line with legislation for audit readiness.
- Handle scheduling, routing, and dispatching to ensure efficiency and timely delivery of services.
- Investigate driver incidents and report vehicle accidents promptly to insurance and management.
- Monitor and report on transport costs, identifying opportunities for savings and operational improvement.
- Collaborate with customer service to resolve transport-related issues and ensure customer satisfaction.
- Conduct compliance and H&S observations of drivers and manage driver absenteeism and holiday planning.
- Attend weekly team meetings, reporting on transport performance and budget.

**Qualifications (Desirable)**:

- Supervisory Management Training
- Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)
- LGV Licence

**Skills and Experience**:

- Previous Transport supervisory/management experience
- Knowledge of drivers hours (tachograph)
- Computer literacy - Excel, Word, Power point and Outlook
- Ability to communicate with team and management
- Excellent Planning and Organisational skills, able to effectively prioritise and multi-task

**Benefits**:

- Entry into Company bonus scheme - up to 5%
- Thalia’s pension contribution is 3% and your contribution is 5%
- 24 days annual leave
- Annual opportunity to buy additional annual leave (up to 5 days)
- Life assurance: 2 x annual salary
- Flexible benefits: Access to a wide range of flexible benefits through Bravo Benefits, allowing you to tailor your package to suit your individual needs, including health, wellbeing, and lifestyle options.
- Free parking

Our Business
At Thalia Waste Management, we are creating a future to be proud of. We think differently, questioning everything, enabling us to develop progressive waste into energy solutions and services. Being motivated, tackling problems together, inspiring others to take responsibility, making a difference, being ambitious and contributing value.
We operate the best technology available across our four strategic sites in North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight. Our technology includes everything from mechanical and biological treatment, traditional mass-burn energy from waste and material recycling technologies to in-vessel composting, advanced thermal treatment, innovative small-scale energy from waste and anaerobic digestion. In a single year we process 300,000 tonnes of waste that is turned into energy. This generates the same amount of energy as approximately 600 million solar panels. Similarly we recycle circa 95,000 tonnes of waste.
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