Fleet Supervisor

**RCL Foods** is recruiting for a driven, highly energized **Fleet Supervisor** to join their dynamic distribution team within the baking business unit.

This role will be based in **Empangeni** and reporting to Regional Operations & Procurement Manager.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Vehicle repairs and maintenance**
- Ensure drivers’ checklist sheet is completed daily by every driver.
- Schedule vehicle services as close as possible to the correct service mileage and not greater than
1500 km’s before or after the service mileage.
- Ensure drivers are recording faults in fault book.
- Capture faults onto spreadsheet and follow up to ensure faults are fixed timeously.
- Identify or be made aware of urgent, high risk faults or damage and ensure the vehicle is repaired
immediately or fix as quick as possible.
- Order spares for vehicles as and when required.

**Accident or other vehicle incidents**
- Compile accident reports.
- Complete claim forms for insurance and follow up on all insurance claims.
- Arrange for vehicle repairs.
- Investigate accident or incident and take action where necessary, including co-operation with the police.

**Route tracking**
- Ensure trackers on vehicles are in working order.
- Monitor routes to ensure drivers are not idle for too long and not going too far off route. Query when
they are deviating.
- Recording and monitoring of mileage per route and investigate deviances.
- Fuel consumption.
- Reconciliation of fuel recon from supplier against driver fuel slips.
- Investigate discrepancies.
- Monitor fuel consumption and where non-compliant with company standard, address the driver and
provide training if necessary to help driver to lower fuel consumption.

**Transactional duties**
- Proactive monitoring of vehicle licences, drivers’ licences and PDP’s to ensure always valid and up to
date.
- All administration and handling of vehicle licences.
- Driver check-up and debrief when driver returns from route and ensure all issues from driver’s checklist
are closed off.
- Receive traffic fines and submit to traffic department to convert into driver’s name.
- People Management.
- Set daily objectives for staff, ensuring full productivity and value add to the business.
- Monitor staff performance weekly and give regular feedback, taking disciplinary action when
necessary and giving recognition where it’s due.
- Conduct performance assessments twice yearly with department staff.
- Hold monthly meetings with staff and provide feedback to senior management.

**General**
- Attendance at inter-departmental meetings and give input related to vehicles and drivers.
- Take disciplinary action against drivers when they have breached company rules and procedures.
- Ensure all delivery vehicles are washed at least once a week.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Education**

Grade 12

Tertiary qualification in Logistics or Supply Chain Management

**Skills**

Ability to read, write, understand and communicate in English.

Good numeracy

***Experience**

Minimum 3 years supervisory/management experience in distribution/transport

FMCG experience

Experience working with JDE advantageous.