Transport Operations Manager

Job Title: Operations Transport Manager Location base: Titan Geographical remit: Local area to home terminal Total Reward Package: Basic salary £40,000 – £44,000 London Allowance £4,500 Car/Car allowance of £4,500 Pension 4% EE 6% ER Holidays 25 per annum increasing with service Free onsite parking Life assurance of 2 x Basic Salary Local Gym Discounts Cycle to Work Scheme BP Fuel Card Employee Assistance Programme Training and development activities Summary of the Role: Our OTM\’s are accountable for the Safe Service Delivery and cost effective utilisation of direct labour and equipment in their location. They will empower the Field Operations Team in their location to ensure that Employee and Industrial relations are managed constructively, ensuring that all business objectives are achieved. Key duties: Successfully deliver the yearly SHEQ (safety, Health, Environment & Quality) plan, and ensure that its progress and effectiveness is robustly managed in their location. This will ensure the highest levels of compliance for our customers, and determine that a safety culture is the priority for all of our colleagues. Provide leadership, development and support to enable their team to deliver their best every day in line with and demonstrating our company values of Innovation, Responsibility, Agility, and Respect. Support the Regional Operations Transport Manager (ROTM) to ensure that a positive, strong relationship with all clients is maintained, ensuring customer satisfaction is paramount for all Contracts. Maintaining positive Industrial Relations across all contracts, and ensuring all location colleagues are engaged and aware of the wider business goals. Constructive engagement with union officers and representatives on a local level is important to ensure operational service delivery and customer satisfaction. Responsibilities: The jobholder has a responsibility to coach, manage and motivate their team in order to reach their full potential. Ensure that all processes are appropriate and implemented to manage and steward safety, customer service, regulatory compliance, industrial relations, resource provision, resource utilisation and other key efficiency parameters. Ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are met, including but not exclusive to: operators licence, drivers hours/ WTD regulations within the operational line. All incidents to to be investigated effectively, with the Incident Control rota to be covered as required. Maintain an awareness of long term customer forecasts and ensure that sufficient resources (assets and people) are in place in order to be able to meet customer requirements. Ensure adequate controls are in place to have a reliable effective recruitment pipeline. Directly and with their team build and maintain excellent relationships with Customers, Trade Unions and other Oxalis departments to successfully deliver the business objectives. Ensure that all colleagues in location are paid accurately and on time. Urgent investigation to occur and where applicable resolve any discrepancies. Give full consideration to all criteria contain Hours of work: Monday to Friday (37.5 hours per week) with one hours unpaid lunch break per day, with a need to be flexible. You will be expected to work either during the am set hours (4am-6am) OR the pm set hours (4pm-6pm) and work the rest of your daily hours before or after these set times. Engagement with the drivers may be required from time to time outside your regular working hours Skills and Experience: The successful applicant will; Essential Hold a full UK driving license. Have strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to build effective working relationships. Have excellent people management skills. Have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Be proficient in IT, particularly Microsoft Office – Outlook and Excel. Have good use of intuition and problem solving skills for productive outcomes. Have the proven ability to maintain high standards of decision making in a fast-paced changeable environment Have performed a role where large single site operational teams have been led to ensure a safety first culture is embedded. Have proven experience of delivering excellence and managing, constructive relationships with both SMEs and larger blue chip clients Desirable Have had experience of working with Trade Unions at local levels. Have an understanding of Drivers Hours Regulations. Have experience working in the transport industry Be educated to degree standard (or equivalent) all disciplines considered. Be CPC qualified, or hold other transport industry qualifications. If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience please apply now! JBRP1_UKTJ