Logistics Team Leader

This is a great opportunity to join Wolverhampton logistics team as a Team Leader. The purpose of this role is to manage a team of 22 and oversee sample collection and coordination of routes to ensure efficient use of company drivers time and maximise possible return of samples to laboratories and driving team. 

Please note this is a full time position working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday 08:30 16:30. 

• Oversee sample collection and coordination of routes to ensure efficient use of company drivers time. 
• Oversee the daily routes and suggest where improvements can be made. 
• Daily management of the 22 Logistics drivers for Wolverhampton as well as covering holidays/sickness for Grimsby and Heathrow. 
• Liaison with third party chilled couriers to facilitate an efficient daily collections plan. 
• Direct customer liaison regarding collections providing updates regarding delays etc.
• Internal communication with other Eurofins departments with regards to managing and distribution consumables. 
• Coordination of the logistics team holidays and sickness cover.
• Out of hours cover for logistics mobile phone outside normal working hours.
• Collation of monthly logistics collections report.
• Monitoring of drivers driving behaviour via Big Change/Samsara system reporting of inappropriate driving behaviour to the UK Logistics Manager.
• Update the Big Change system with the latest collection and delivery information. 
• Effective management of the Eurofins fleet ensuring all vans are serviced and MOTd to requirements. 
• Taking vans to garages where required. 
• Ensuring highest standards of Health and Safety are maintained across the logistics team reporting and investigating accidents on the H&S system. 
• Assisting Logistics manager on recruitment and induction of new drivers. 
• Monitor third party courier costs to ensure that they are effectively controlled costs are controlled through effective use of resources.
• Cooperate with the investigation and resolution of customer issues relating to their business unit.
• Cover for the Logistics Manager where required. 
• Maintain high standard of temperature control through the calibration of probes and profiling of vans. 
• Potential travel to other sites nationwide for meetings/overnight stays. 

Qualifications :

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent. 
• Logistics or transport planning background.
• Experience working in a busy transport office & stock control environments.
• Experience of supervision of teams. 
• Working knowledge of MS Office and Outlook
• Full UK Driving license.
• Customer focused values driven individual with integrity.
• Great communication skills both verbal and written across all ability levels.
• Highly Organised with good attention to detail. 
• Excellent people management skills. 
• Ability to be resilient work under pressure and with tight deadlines. 

Additional Information :

Benefits

At Eurofins we are growing innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards recognise our colleagues special life events and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates   
• Company Pension Plan
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
• Healthcare Cash Plan (6 months service)
• Enhanced Maternity Adoption and Paternity Schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 confidential
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes
• Free parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• We also have in place rewards recognising the great work out employees deliver their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do so its incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit youll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and its requirements this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 
 
Your data 
As part of any recruitment process the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
 
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
 
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. 

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression race nationality age religion sexual orientation disability and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025 through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime