Location: Portbury - Bristol
At Lineage, helping to feed the world is more than a job - it's our purpose. As the world's largest and most innovative temperature-controlled logistics provider, we're looking for a Transport Supervisor to join our team in Bristol.
Shift Available: Monday-Friday, 10:00-19:00 (flexibility required)
Salary: £31,600 per annum.
The Role
Supporting the Transport Manager, you'll help ensure our transport operation runs safely, compliantly, and efficiently. Key responsibilities include:
Transport Operations & Compliance
Driver allocation, wages, holidays and daily monitoring.
Ensuring compliance with Lineage driving hours, WTD and drivers' hours legislation.
Managing overspeeds, driving hours, missing mileage, defects, and infringements (including debriefs).
Carrying out driver debriefs, reviewing RTD hours, daily checks, missing data, Tacho vs. defect app, repeat issues, DWAC alerts/minutes, and more.
Maintaining system data across Aquarius, FleetManager, Tacho Web, and keeping vehicle files at 15 months.
Fleet & Vehicle Administration
Booking vehicle inspections/MOTs and managing defects.
Printing, scanning, and filing service sheets; updating the service board.
Completing vehicle camera checks and reporting faults.
Ordering and recording site fuel; processing P/Os and Workday orders (fuel, fleet, uniforms).
Incident & Safety Management
People Management
Supporting staff training and daily management.
Managing absence and RTWs.
Assisting with investigations and Q&A documentation.
Collaboration
Who We're Looking For
Experienced in transport supervision is ideal, but full training will be given to the right candidate.
CPC qualified or willing to work towards your CPC if not held.
Strong attention to detail and thorough compliance knowledge.
Confident communicator with good organisational skills.
Comfortable working to deadlines and managing multiple tasks.
IT-confident, especially in Excel, Word and Outlook.
A positive, proactive team-player with a can-do attitude.
What's In It For You?
Permanent opportunity with a direct employer - we won't hire you through a recruitment agency.
Career development opportunities within a global market-leading business.
Opportunity to earn an additional day's holiday each year, up to the maximum of one extra week for length of service.
Free onsite parking.
Employee Assistance Programme with access to 24/7 confidential counselling and support.
Preferential rates for loans and savings offered through exclusive access to a credit union.
Be part of a business that plays a vital role in feeding communities across the UK.
Job Reference: INDUK
Why Lineage?
We are a global company with more than 22,000 employees spanning 20 countries and more than 400 locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America.
At Lineage Logistics, we have a shared purpose; we are transforming the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world. This means working at Lineage is not just a job - it's an opportunity to innovate and put your mark on how food moves from the farm to dinner tables around the world. As a member of our team, you will be a critical link in the food supply chain.
Our shared purpose drives everything we do in all parts of our organisation, from the warehouse floor to the office. Our team members are passionate about the impact they make every single day.
We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. At Lineage we also recognise that Ex-Military, veterans, and military families have great experience with transferable skills and core values that can add significant value to our organisation.
Benefits
As a Lineage team member, we aim to provide everything you and your family need to thrive. That's why we offer competitive rates of pay, paid time off, skills training, and development opportunities to grow a long and fulfilling career with us. This is enhanced by recognition schemes (so that your hard work won't go unnoticed), plus the chance to make your salary go even further with our cycle-to-work scheme and preferential rates for loans and savings courtesy of a leading credit union.
Your everyday wellbeing is also important to us, so we will provide you with all the protective equipment you need to be safe and comfortable at work, and you will have access to a free 24/7 employee assistance phone line, which offers confidential counselling and advice. With all of this offered against the backdrop of a fun and social environment in which you will be supported by a team who enjoy helping each other in achieving their goals, we are confident you will excel with us.
