Transport Manager - Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, South Africa - RCL FOODS Careers
Description
At RCL FOODS we see and do things differently - we think bigger, work smarter, and collectively work as a team to achieve our ambition; MORE food to MORE people, MORE often
Our Talent Team is looking for a talented
Transport Manager with impressive technical and leadership abilities to join our Baking Division based in
Bushbuckridge.
In this role, you'll be responsible to ensure:
- The effective management of workshop, depots and staff.
- The total fleet is maintained and in good running condition and within budget constraints.
- Effective management of fuel costs and to ensure that vehicles are running at the desire optimum cost.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Oversee transport, workshop departments and all depots, including assets and employees.
- Plan and implement budgets.
- Plan, Motivate and Implement Capex Replacements.
- Maintain Vehicle Asset Register.
- Source cost effective parts and ensure on time delivery by securing reliable suppliers.
- Develop relationship with suppliers.
- Daily recon of all fuel used to ensure that target fuel usage margins are maintained.
- Ensure all fleet is available for Distribution on a daily basis including spare units.
- Schedule all services, repairs and ensure parts availability.
- Maintain and repair fleet as per OEM and FOSA requirements.
- Downtime to be kept to a minimum. (Daily VOR).
- Verify and sign off job cards in the workshop including depots.
- Manage performance of employees with emphasis on productivity, efficiency, and service delivery using RCL Standards of Leadership and Our Way.
- Train, motivate, coach, and mentor transport and workshop employees.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities in the workshop.
- Weekly Depot visits to ensure that standards are maintained at Depot level.
- Ensure the workshop staff adhere to all Health and Safety Regulations.
- Ensure that workshop staff adhere to all Food Safety Regulations.
- Oversee and approve of all parts purchased in the workshop.
- Monitor fuel reserves and order timeously.
- Weekly and Monthly Fuel Recons to balance all diesel stock for month end.
- Ensure stores stock availability, complete monthly stock take and balancing.
- Ensure that all drivers adhere to the National Road Traffic act, daily monitoring of speeding, misuse of any company vehicles and implement corrective action.
- Monthly tyre reconciliation and document tyre performance and utilization on the total fleet including depots.
- Ensure recapped stock is returned to Workshop Stores.
- Daily and Monthly Tyre Stock Recons.
- Monthly Tyre scrapping reports.
- Daily and Weekly Vehicle inspections.
- Ensure that all vehicle checklists are complete and closed out.
- Ensure that company pool vehicles are monitored and tracked to avoid abuse.
- Ensure optimum utilization of all trucks and Feeder trucks.
- Ensure that a proper cleaning register is maintained.
- Monthly Workshop Expenses breakdown down and average cost per / km is calculated and monitored monthly. (CPK).
- Report incidents and accidents, investigate and implement preventive measures.
- Close out all accidents with Insurance administrator within time.
- Maintain fleet image. (Mechanical, Branding and cosmetics).
- Monitor and track staff KPI's.
- Comply with BU procedures and policies.
- Staff Training analysis and implementation.
Minimum Requirements:
- Matric or equivalent (N4)
- EC drivers' licence
- Qualified Diesel Technician with minimum 5 years' experience on trucks. (Mechanical, Auto Electrical, Cooling Systems)
- Workshop Management with 5 years' experience and sound knowledge of workshop procedures and processes.
- Knowledge of workshop health and safety principals
- FMCG experience (Advantageous)
- Diploma in Road Transport Management (Advantageous)
- Sound Management skills (Planning, implementation, Execution, Staff management)
- Motivated and Energetic
- Strong HR/IR
- Good communication skills (Written and Spoken)
- Financial (0 based budgets, Capex, Syspro, Recons)
- Computer Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook
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