Operations Manager at a transport company, the person to hold this position will directly manage a team of two traffic planners and a mechanic, and indirectly will supervise a team of between 13-15 drivers.
Her/His main responsibilities will be:
- Dealing daily with traffic planners to understand the day to day activity and provide support if any incident occured.
- Analyse with our maintenance staff and external workshops any breakdown and repairs required and its impact on the workflow and committed orders.
- Monthly analysis of fuel consumption and issuing of corresponding report to Management.
- Follow up on Monthly basis of truck utilization through tacho data, as well as analysis of driver´s working time in order to grant time off when and if needed.
- Weekly review of rates applied to undertaken services as well as accurate registration of extra costs incurred and notified to our customers.
- Daily update of lifts in/out of our tanks in our own ERP and lifter log.
- Approval of invoices related to cost areas under her/his responsibility: subcontractors, depots, etc.
- Replacement of traffic planners during holidays, days off, etc.
- Support to traffic planners on different topics -transport regulation, driving time, H&S, etc.-.
- Follow up and update of CAE platforms -CTAIMA and similars-, together with our admin department.
- Review of claims raised by customers.
- Follow up of driver´s performance through our fleet management system and reporting key data to calculate corresponding bonus.
- Different tasks related to H&S.
-Prior experience in transport companies managing her/his own team.
- Deep knowledge of transport of hazardous cargo.
- Experience in companies with a QSHE management system implemented, particularly with H&S topics -PPEs, training, CAE, etc.-.
- Intermediate level of English, both written and spoken. Fluent in English will be an advantage.
- Prior experience with tank containers or road barrels will be highly valued.