Depot Operations Manager

Freightroute Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 36,000 - GBP 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics firm seeks a Depot Operations Manager in Bradford. You'll manage a transport office and oversee a fleet of vehicles, ensuring timely delivery and collection of pallets. Responsibilities include organizing your team, maintaining safety standards, and addressing customer queries. Ideally, you have supervisory experience and a good understanding of transport legislation. The role offers a competitive salary within the range of £36,358.71-£38,828.56.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in supervisory management within a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrable knowledge of transport legislation including digital tachographs.
• Previous experience in transport planning or scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Organising office team and fleet to achieve performance levels.
• Ensuring transport operation safety and compliance with regulations.
• Dealing with customer queries and complaints timely and effectively.

Skills

Supervisory experience in Transport or Distribution

Knowledge of transport legislation

Transport planning/scheduling

People management skills

Job description

Location: Bradford BD12 0RG
Shift Pattern: 45 hours per week
Salary: £36,358.71-£38,828.56

Freightroute Limited is a family business and one of the leading privately owned palletised transport organisations in the UK. Established in 1979 we operate across 11 sites in England and Scotland with over 480 employees and 220 vehicles.

Striving to deliver excellence as standard we offer a wide range of delivery solutions to our customers while maintaining the highest standards of safety and professional conduct.

Monday - Friday 10.00 - 20.00

As a Depot Operations Manager you will be responsible for a small transport office and warehouse team and a fleet of up to 29 vehicles. Your main task will be to ensure that customers’ pallets are both delivered and collected to schedule.

Your key duties will include:

• Organising your office team and fleet of vehicles to ensure performance levels are achieved.
• Ensuring the transport operation runs safely and is compliant with all relevant regulations.
• Ensuring all relevant H&S policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Responsibility for dealing with customer queries and complaints ensuring all queries are dealt with in a timely manner, resolved to a mutual satisfaction and reported correctly with support from your line manager.
• Achieving compliance with internal company procedures.

What you’ll need

Proven track record of supervisory /management experience in a Transport or Distribution role within a fast‑paced environment.

• Demonstrable knowledge of relevant transport legislation, including digital tachographs and Working Time Directive (WTD).
• Previous experience of transport planning / scheduling.
• Excellent people management and leadership skills.
• National CPC is desirable, although not essential.
• Right to work in the UK.

Note to recruitment agencies: We prefer to recruit direct but we do have an authorised agency partner list for when we need a helping hand, we will be in touch if we need you.

The Freightroute Group require all applicants to be eligible to work in the UK with no restrictions. We do not offer sponsorship/work visas. You will be required to provide proof of Right to Work at interview stage.

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