Transport Supervisor

Company Description

Howard Tenens is a long-established logistics service partner focused on delivering value for money, environmental credibility, and exceptional service. With over 70 years of trading experience, the company operates from 25 locations, offering premium warehousing and a comprehensive fleet of vehicles. Howard Tenens designs bespoke warehouse and distribution solutions for customers across multiple sectors, including automotive, retail, FMCG, food and drink, packaging, and renewable energy. Its extensive transport network provides haulage and distribution services around the clock, supported by a diverse fleet ranging from vans to 44T double deck artics and specialist vehicles. The business is built on strong customer relationships and the expertise of its people, ensuring high standards of service for customers globally.

Role Description

The Transport Supervisor will provide compliant, efficient, and profitable transport operations for the Howard Tenens Depot and Howard Tenens delivery networks, ensuring that hygiene, quality levels, and performance standards are met, whilst promoting safe working practices.

What you’ll do:

• Ensure all customer requirements (both internal and external) are satisfied on a daily basis.
• Act as Howard Tenens management interface with customers.
• Continually review and re-engineer the operation to ensure maximum efficiency.
• Coordinate own fleet and sub-contract to ensure cost-effective solutions for customer requirements.
• Day-to-day driver management.
• Ensure all drivers are de-briefed daily.
• Develop the team, providing skills and training to meet operational requirements and efficiency improvements.
• Maintain a well-motivated and enthusiastic team.
• Provide out-of-hours support for customers and drivers (as required).
• Conduct regular driver/vehicle/trailers checks to ensure the highest standards of reliability and presentation are maintained as well as fleet control.
• Management of all in-cab technology.
• Use of Howard Tenens TMS.
• Manage Driver training program to include Driver CPC.
• Ensure full compliance with all Howard Tenens internal processes and procedures.
• Work with CPC Holders to ensure all VOSA ‘Operator Licence’ legislative requirements are adhered to.
• Make arrangements to ensure that drivers comply with drivers’ hours and tachograph rules and with speed limits.
• Make arrangements to ensure that the vehicles are maintained properly, including the inspection of vehicles at the appropriate time and the action taken to remedy defects found.
• Report and record vehicle defects by drivers.
• Compile and ensure the accuracy of all records, which must be kept for a period of not less than 15 months.
• Make arrangements to ensure that the vehicle(s) are not overloaded.
• Ensure authorized vehicles will be kept at the authorized operating center(s) when not in use.
• Ensure fleet records for depot are maintained to a high standard to include:
  • Daily checks, defect reporting, servicing (DOE, tail lifts, Tacho calibration, MOTs).
  • Complete Tacho records for vehicles and drivers.
  • Tacho Infringement management and disciplinary action where required.
• Ensure all Health and Safety Legislation is complied with, including SSoW, Risk Assessments, Toolbox Talks, LOLER/PUWER/RIDDOR regulations.
• All other aspects of Fleet Compliance.
• Various reports will be expected in line with the Operational activities.