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GXO Logistics

Transport Shift Manager, Nights

Luton
£39.5k/yr
Posted 7 days ago
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Are you a confident transport leader who can keep deliveries running safely, legally, and on time—no matter what the shift throws at you? Love leading from the front, solving problems on the fly, and taking ownership of transport performance, compliance, and customer satisfaction? Come join us as our Transport Shift Manager!

Join our GXO Howdens team in our Hemel Hempstead (HP2 7HZ) depot as Transport Shift Manager (Nights). You’ll be responsible for safe, compliant, and efficient operation of the transport function during your designated shift, ensuring delivery performance, legal compliance, effective people management, and high standards of customer service.

This is a full-time, permanent position with core hours Monday to Friday 22.00 PM to 06.00 AM (flexibility required for business needs).

Pay, benefits and more:

  • We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £39,500 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
  • Your benefits package includes a company-sponsored pension scheme, life assurance, and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

  • Lead shift transport operations, ensuring deliveries and collections are completed safely, legally, on time, and to customer expectations, including real-time monitoring, route replanning, issue resolution, and shift handovers
  • Ensure full health, safety, and compliance, maintaining adherence to H&S legislation, DVSA, Operator Licence, tachograph, and working time regulations, while promoting a strong safety culture and supporting audits and inspections
  • Provide people leadership, motivating and engaging drivers and colleagues, managing attendance and resourcing, delivering performance management and development, and supporting disciplinary, grievance, and absence processes
  • Manage resources and assets effectively, maximising utilisation of drivers, vehicles, trailers, and equipment, and overseeing defects, breakdowns, and maintenance escalation
  • Drive efficiency and cost control, supporting fuel efficiency, damage reduction, service performance improvement, and operational cost management initiatives

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What you need to succeed at GXO:

  • Proven supervisory experience within a transport environment, with proven people and operational leadership capability
  • Strong knowledge of UK transport legislation, compliance standards, and health & safety requirements, including experience of incident investigation
  • Excellent organisational, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively
  • Personal attributes: calm, resilient, and professional under pressure; proactive and solutions-focused; high integrity and accountability; committed to continuous improvement

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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 an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader 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. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.

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Skills

Transport management
People leadership
Compliance management
Health and safety
DVSA regulations
Tachograph compliance
Operational efficiency
Problem solving
Incident investigation
Route planning
Performance management
Resource management
Communication
Cost control
Team motivation

Location

Borough of Luton, England, United Kingdom

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