Night Transport First Line Manager

CURRENTLY BASED IN LUTTERWORTH BUT FROM JULY IT WILL BE FROM DAVENTRY

Pay Rate: Earn up to £41,318.45 – including a strong base salary of £36,565 plus a 13% shift premiumGrade: NContract Type: Permanent (Full-Time)Shift patterns: Nights Sunday to Thursday, 10pm to 6amLocation: Will be based at Daventry from July

Right now, we’re looking for a Transport First Line Manager who’s ready to step up, take ownership, and make a real impact.

If you’re a hands‑on leader with the drive to push performance and the ambition to be part of something bigger – this is your moment.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Take leadership responsibility for managing a safe and efficient transport environment.
• To maximise the performance of drivers and supervisors by directing the nightly, weekly and monthly activities.
• Analysing and understanding health and safety related risks for our colleagues, take action to reduce or eliminate these risks according to a prioritized plan
• Implement actions as directed to reduce or eliminate health and safety related risks
• Leverage Behavioral Based Safety (BBS) program as a daily way to confirm behaviors and processes
• Report and investigate incidents within the workplace and respond to or escalates issues of non‑compliance to safety regulations and procedures
• Implement and supervise the adherence of up‑to‑date processes, work instructions, standard operating procedures and associated forms to achieve prescribed outputs
• Continuously contribute to the improvement of procedures to better achieve the prescribed outputs
• Liaise with suppliers based on business requirements, monitor performance and where necessary, propose improvements to line manager and implement agreed improvement actions
• Participate in customer, regulatory and internal operational audits as required and work with the team to implement the agreed action plan
• Conduct regular reviews on operational performance and delivery against the agreed KPIs
• Escalate any areas of non‑compliance or failure to line manager and where applicable escalates to the senior team
• Management of Subcontractor and help implement agreed processes to review performance,
• Leads regular operational performance reviews with colleagues with focus on H&S and Legal Compliance, overall efficiency of the operation in line with targets and performance via Performance Dialogs
• Foster Collaboration: Build a strong team culture that values communication, accountability and teamwork. Together, we’ll achieve great results!

THIS ROLE WOULD SUIT PEOPLE WHO

• 2 to 5 years operational experience
• Transport Management
• Continuous Improvement
• National and International CPC Desirable
• IIRSM Risk Assessor (desirable)
• IIRSM Risk Management (desirable)
• CSCS Foundation (desirable)

WHY JOIN US

• Join our generous pension scheme and benefit from an 8% employer contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution
• Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations
• Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts
• Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice
• Visit https://careers.dhl.com/global/en/working-at-dhl-supply-chain to learn more

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