Transport Manager

3 weeks ago


Durban, South Africa RCL FOODS Careers Full time

Responsible to ensure an effective management of workshop, depots and staff.
- Responsible to ensures that total fleet is maintained and in good running condition and within budget constraints.
- Responsible for effective fuel costs and to ensure that vehicles are running at the desire optimum cost.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**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**:
**Minimum Requirements**
- Matric or equivalent (N4)
- EC drivers’ licence
- Good communication skills (Written and Spoken)
- Financial (0 based budgets, Capex, Syspro, Recons)
- Computer Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook)
- Qualified Diesel Technician with minimum 5 years’ experience on trucks. (Mechanical, Auto Electrical, Cooling Systems, Tyre management)
- 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/Degree in Road Transport Management.
- Sound Management skills (Planning, implementation, Execution, Staff management)
- Motivated and Energetic
- Strong HR/IR



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