Transport First Line Manager

Are you currently working in a transport environment but feel like you’ve hit a stop sign? Are you looking for a career ‘move’, where you’ll constantly be challenged to grow and develop your skills? Are you ready to take the highway to your next challenge? Transport yourself to GXO and find out more about how we do logistics differently!

GXO is currently seeking two talented and driven individuals for the role of Transport First Line Manager, to join us on the night shift at our Transport Networks site in Harlow. You’ll ensure effective co-ordination of all transport related activities, by controlling the workflow between warehouse and transport operations, ensuring adherence to the transport plan.

This is a full-time, permanent position, working on a ‘4 on 4 off’ shift pattern. The hours of work are 20:00 – 08:00.

Pay, benefits and more:

You’ll be paid a salary of up to £35,692 per annum, which includes a night shift premium. You’ll also receive 21 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), as well as the option to buy additional days so you can enjoy a positive work-life balance. You’ll have access to private healthcare, a dental plan, a workplace pension, our GXO University which provides you the opportunity to learn new skills and gain qualifications at a pace that you’re comfortable with. Plus, many other perks such as a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme and our continued focus on internal promotions, over 55% last year!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Manage and coordinate the work activities within your team to execute the most efficient operation on behalf of our customers, ensuring customer satisfaction and procedural conformance
• Review labour requirements with the operations manager, planning against volumes and activities to produce labour requirements and work schedules to include contingency plans and overtime requirements
• Build and maintain your team members in line with our people plan, identifying talent and training requirements or other opportunities for development
• Responsible for managing change positively and effectively by pro-actively managing operational planning and changing customer requirements

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Demonstrable experience within a similar role, experience supervising a team and an operational understanding of a fast paced transport environment
• Strong leadership skills with excellent communication skills, to champion a can-do attitude
• Experience of managing conflicting priorities, along with planning and organising skills
• You will be comfortable taking responsibility demonstrating commitment and leading by example

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are Disability Confident Committed as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.