Location
Desborough
Job Type
full-time
Posted
July 08, 2026
Job Description
Job Description
Responsible for the 24/7 Transport operations, managing the Transport Supervisors and supporting the Transport Manager in ensuring that costs are controlled in line with budget / forecast expectations
x2 full time, permanent positions. Working any 5 in 7, typically Monday to Friday, 06.00-14.00/14.00-22.00.
Key Duties of a Transport Shift Manager:
- Manage the Depot Transport staff to execute Traffic plans to enable delivery of products to customers within agreed service levels
- Reduce non contract maintenance and damage spends through the use of vehicle passports, monitoring of defects being raised.
- Ensure that all available fleet is on the road and declared to enable the Planning Team to plan the resource
- Manage the resourcing for the site through effective planning of both core drivers and shift patterns through to daily and weekly resourcing of agency drivers
- Manage holiday allocat...