Overview of role Location: Stevenage - £43,000 p.a • Reporting directly to the Logistics Manager with indirect reporting to the Logistics Front Line Manager • Supporting the Driver Assessor with responsibility for the coaching and ongoing training of delivery drivers. • Specific coaching on safe and fuel-efficient driving, correct usage of tachograph systems, delivery point risk assessment, manual handling, diversion management, satellite navigation usage and bridge strike awareness. • Full written supporting documentation to be provided in support of assessment and driver behaviour.Key Accountabilities • Following assessment criteria, accompanying driver on routes, full written assessment on driving style, behaviours, and compliance. • An experienced driver with exemplary standards, you will be the bridge between having a genuine driver focus coupled with a complete understanding of the business legal compliance obligations. • All criteria covered in driver induction will need to be evidenced in driver coaching sessions. • Detailed knowledge of working and legal compliance SOP’s will be required to enable coaching of correct standards. • To be a custodian of driver tachograph coaching supporting infringement and driver error reduction. • Support RTA investigations and delivery of corrective actions. • Monitor manual handling operations, coaching correct methods with observations supporting FLM’s with 1 to 1’s where appropriate. • Take a leading role communicating to all drivers on the working time directive, the impact on drivers and any future initiatives specifically aimed at driving controls and behaviours. • Identifying ongoing training and produce periodic plans according. • Become part of the site steering team for vehicle operations management. Allied Bakeries are owned by Associated British Foods. ABF is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £13.9bn and 128,000 employees in 53 countries. It has significant businesses in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia Our sister companies in ABF UK Grocery produce products under many market-leading household brands, including Jordans, Ryvita, Pataks, Blue Dragon & Silver Spoon. We are proud of our brands: we make top 10 UK grocery brand Kingsmill as well as Allinson’s, Bürgen and Sunblest. You’ll know us best through our white, wholemeal and seeded market-leading loaves, as well as Kingsmill 50/50, the nation’s favourite Healthier White, and our delicious pancakes, crumpets, hot cross buns and other bakery products. The success of our business depends on us having the right people on the team. We are incredibly passionate about our business, but it isn’t for the faint-hearted – it’s pacey and demanding so our people need to have a positive attitude and to want to work inclusively. We take massive pride in what we do, not least in how colleagues based in our bakeries and depots have one of the best safety performance records in the industry. Our Grocery Service Centre, based near Liverpool, is a hub for transactional activity across multiple ABF companies within the ABF Grocery division. Supporting some of our well-known brands such as Kingsmill, Pataks, Blue Dragon, Jordans, Ryvita and Silver Spoon, amongst others. We deliver Shared Service activities across a wide range of disciplines including Customer Services, Consumer Care, Finance, Payroll, HR and IS. If you’re looking to join a business that is passionate, encourages you to be the best you can be, and values its people, we’d love to hear from you.