Transport Manager, Wellingborough
Role Overview
About the Role
Join Day Group as a Transport Manager and play a key role in leading our transport operations across multiple depots nationwide. Reporting to the Group Transport Manager, you’ll be responsible for managing transport personnel, maintaining fleet compliance, and ensuring the safe, legal, and efficient operation of our LGV fleet.
This is a highly visible leadership role where you’ll work closely with drivers, operational teams, and transport colleagues to ensure the highest standards of safety, compliance, and service are consistently maintained. You’ll be responsible for developing driver performance, supporting fleet operations, and ensuring compliance with Operator Licence requirements and Company procedures.
The role offers excellent variety and will suit an experienced transport professional who is passionate about leadership, road transport compliance, and operational excellence.
Person Specification
We are looking for an experienced and motivated transport professional with strong leadership skills and a proven ability to manage people within a transport or logistics environment.
You’ll be confident leading teams across multiple locations, building positive relationships with drivers, and maintaining high standards of performance, safety, and compliance. A proactive and approachable management style, combined with excellent communication and decision-making skills, will be essential for success in this role.
The successful candidate will have a thorough understanding of transport legislation and operator licence compliance and will be committed to supporting and developing drivers throughout their careers.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage transport staff across allocated depots, ensuring the safe, legal, and compliant operation of the Company's truck fleet
- Recruit, develop, retain, and support teams of drivers operating across multiple locations
- Ensure drivers comply with Operator Licence requirements, Company policies, and transport legislation
- Promote high standards of driver conduct, professionalism, and performance
- Apply Company disciplinary procedures where required
- Complete incident investigations, reports, and corrective actions in collaboration with relevant departments
- Conduct routine vehicle inspections and safety checks
- Carry out driver inductions, performance reviews, and annual appraisals
- Deliver toolbox talks and driver engagement activities across multiple sites
- Prepare and submit driver wage returns whilst monitoring costs and overtime expenditure
- Work closely with in-house driver trainers to support training, development, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Provide holiday cover by driving an LGV vehicle when operationally required
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Positive, approachable, and professional management style
- Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) in Road Haulage
- Ability to be named as a CPC holder on the Company's Operator Licence
- Valid LGV Licence
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Good organisational and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to manage performance, compliance, and operational priorities effectively
Desirable
- IOSH qualification or willingness to obtain
- Previous experience managing drivers across multiple depot locations
- Experience within aggregates, construction materials, logistics, or heavy haulage operations
- Experience conducting investigations, performance reviews, and disciplinary processes
- Experience delivering training, toolbox talks, or driver development programmes
- Knowledge of fleet compliance, vehicle safety inspections, and Operator Licence obligations
Why Join Day Group?
Day Group is one of the South’s leading suppliers of primary and recycled aggregates, built on a reputation for quality, reliability, and service.
Our transport operation is fundamental to the success of the business, with vehicles and drivers supporting customers across multiple regions every day. As a Transport Manager, you’ll play an important leadership role, helping to develop our drivers, maintain compliance standards, and ensure the continued safe and efficient operation of our fleet.
We’re proud of the people behind our success and actively support learning, progression, and development, providing opportunities to build a rewarding long-term career within a well-established and growing business.
All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK. Day Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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We’re always looking for talented people who share our commitment to quality, reliability, and teamwork. If this role sounds like the right fit for you, we’d love to hear from you.
