Yard Logistics Team Leader

**_Job Role - Yard Logisitcs Team Leader_**

**_Salary - £28,000_**

**_Location - BCA Avonmouth (Bristol)_**

**_Working Hours - _**4 days on, 4 days off working between 6am-6pm**

**_Type of Employment - Permanent _**

**Join the UK’s largest B2B used vehicle service**

At BCA, we’re altogether, more. More than just a normal vehicle remarketing company. More than just any other place to work. We’re Europe's largest vehicle remarketing company, the backbone of the UK’s automotive supply chain, the best place to build the career you want.

**Now, this is where you fit in**

We’re looking for down-to-earth people, with bags of energy, ready to make their mark on the automotive industry. Our Site Operations and Driving teams play a vital role across our business. Here you can build on your knowledge and find your specialty at one of our sites or on the road - the opportunities are endless.

**Main purpose of the role**

To provide day to day operational leadership in the Yard area ensuring required vehicle movements are completed in a timely, safe and efficient manner.

To support the Duty Manager - Yard Logistics in the delivery of all elements of effective people management including recruitment, training, performance management, communication and wellbeing.

**Your key responsibilities will be**:
**People Management**:

- To manage all elements of the employee lifecycle including onboarding and offboarding.
- Performance management of the team including training, coaching and appraisals to ensure both optimum performance and talent pipeline.
- Effective workforce management, including absence planning, ensuring optimum staff levels at all times and adherence to working time directive.
- Effective communication to team ensuring awareness of results and key priorities.

**Operational Management**:

- To transport vehicles across the site safely and efficiently to support production areas, buyer collections and internal and external collection agents.
- Ensure adherence to BCA Standard Operating Procedures.
- Ensure that quality, speed and cost targets are delivered to maximise profitability.
- Ensure the logistics team provide excellent customer service to both internal and external customers, supporting other departments where appropriate.
- Organise the layout and flow of the yard to optimise capacity, efficiency and safety whilst minimising onsite damage.

**Technical skills**:

- Delegate responsibility appropriately and effectively
- Ability to motivate a team to deliver objectives and meet targets
- Good report generation and presentation abilities
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent time management
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office - including Excel and Powerpoint
- IT skills
- Drive & results focus
- Motivating & developing others
- Data, decisions & problem solving
- Influencing & communicating
- Action and customer focused
- Team Player

**To be successful, you’ll bring some of the following experience with you**:

- Experience in a line manager or team leader role
- Able to demonstrate highlevel organisational skills and an ability to communicate a variety of information and instruction to operational team members and first line supervisors
- Full UK Driving Licence

We’ve put everything in place to ensure you thrive. Competitive salaries, strong core values and an excellent benefits package that includes:

- Company Pension Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance (role dependent)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Access to trained mental health first aiders

And so much more

As the automotive industry changes, we’re changing with it - putting our people in the front seat for the journey. We’re the number one in what we do for a reason and that’s because of the people we have on our teams. If you want to be a part of a business like this; unrivalled, exciting and appreciative of the work you do, join BCA.

We are proud to be Level 1 Disability Confident and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.

Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or disability.