At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the yard team, ensuring safe and efficient vehicle movements.
- Company: Join BCA, Europe's largest vehicle remarketing company with a vibrant culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, pension scheme, discounts, and mental health support.
- Other info: Access to our IMI approved training academy for continuous learning.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the automotive industry while developing your career.
- Qualifications: Experience in team leadership and strong organisational skills required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
- Working Hours: Monday to Friday 9am-6pm (plus Saturday on a rota basis, approx 1 in 4)
- 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
- Toprovide day to dayoperationalleadership in the Yardareaensuring required vehicle movements are completed in a timely, safe and efficient manner.
- Tosupport the Duty Manager– Yard Logisticsin thedelivery ofallelementsofeffectivepeople managementincluding recruitment, training, performancemanagement, communicationandwellbeing.
People Management
- To manage all elements of the employee lifecycleincludingonboarding and offboarding.
- Performance management of the teamincluding training, coachingand 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
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office– including Excel and Powerpoint
- Drive & results focus
- Motivating & developing others
- Data, decisions & problem solving
- Action and customer focused
- Team Player
Knowledge and Experience
- Experience in a line manager or team leader role
- Able to demonstrate high-level 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:
- Onsite parking
- Company Pension Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Access to trained Mental Health First Aiders
- Access to BCA Rewards which provides online and store discounts with a range of retailers
- And so much more...
- BCA Academy
Our business is growing and evolving at a significant rate and we need to ensure we have the right people with the right skills in order to maintain its success.
We need to build our own talent now for the future.
It is for this reason we have our own IMI approved training academy.
The BCA Academy is there to support your technical training needs.
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.
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