Contract Type: Permanent / 40 Hours Per Week
● Salary: circa £39,700 plus Bonus
● Days of Work: Tuesday to Saturday
● You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of nearly £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career
Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!!!
DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Shift Manager, to help strengthen our depot operations management team.
In this role you will be working closely with our self employed Owner Drivers (OD’s) and Employed Drivers, building a strong relationship with them and keeping the drivers engaged, well managed and motivated to ensure outstanding service is delivered.
Ensuring all other delivery & collection routes are properly set.
● Ensure all driver’s scan and load their vans for delivery in a safe, timely and efficient manner.
● Ensuring adequate resources are available to guarantee any ad-hoc collections are picked up either via your pool of drivers or by using couriers/agencies.
● Working to set Key Performance Indicators including Service, Cost, Productivity, Transport and Health and Safety.
● You will have experience in a fast paced operation with proven and demonstrable people management experience, involving direct accountability and responsibility for motivating and leading a high performing team, ideally within a Transport Setting. Decisive and effective decision-making, problem resolution and time management skills.
● Excellent computer skills with the ability to use Google chrome applications
● The ability to do comprehensive reporting, alongside analysis of data is a key requirement for this role.
● Holiday trading
● Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
● Free On Site Parking
● Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
● For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses
DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.
If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you!