Uplift Supervisor

Location

Merthyr Tydfil, Wales | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Title: Uplift Supervisor

Reporting to: Transport Manager

Supervisory Responsibilities: uplift drivers

Salary: £27'300.00

The Role

We are looking for an energetic, responsible, and highly motivated individual to join our team as ‘Uplift & Planner Team Member’. This is an exciting new dual role working within the Transport department, which forms an integral part of the wider BikePark team.

You must be a qualified PSV driver to be considered for this role.

When driving, you will be responsible for transporting customers & their bikes to the summit of BikePark Wales as part of our uplift service, ensuring that all procedures are followed on a daily basis. As the supervisor you will be the senior driver on duty and work with the uplift operations manager to ensure the uplift service delivers inline with expected standards.

In other areas of your supervisor role you will be integral in keeping our fleet of Transit Minibuses and drivers operational. You will assist the TM in administrative duties, such as creating and managing the driver rotas, HR & HS documentation, training, administrating the fitter team’s maintenance job sheets, PMI documents, using a suite of IT & hardcopy systems. Working with the Transport Manager to ensure compliance to our governing bodies, such as the Traffic Commissioner.

This is a multifaceted role that will allow the right individual to flourish within BikePark Wales.

You will share your passion, ideas and suggestions with your team and work together to keep BikePark transport service world class!

As part of your BPW development, you will learn the detailed skills required to be successful in this role, as well as training and development within the Transport department, assisting you in keeping your CPC upto date. For the right candidate there will be an opportunity to progress within your career to complete your Transport Managers course.

Individuals must be able to work outdoors in, at times, challenging conditions.

The Uplift & Planner Team Member must be a strong team player yet remain self-motivated and able to work productively with limited supervision.  

Weekend work is essential for this role. During school holidays and weekends you will predominately drive with the team, then return to a split of 2 days driving and 3 days conducting planner duties.

Duties and Responsibilities to include:

Transport pre-paid customers to the top of the Mountain Bike Trail network on rotation.

Ensure Minibus and trailer are in full working order at beginning of shift, including a visual walk around inspection and mechanical inspections as part of the daily defect checks

Report any vehicular mechanical issues with BikePark Wales’s Transport Manager

Ensure that the minibuses and trailers are clean and tidy and maintain an excellent Company image

Showing excellent awareness of health and safety throughout all aspects of work, communicating to supervisors or managers if any H&S concerns are identified and require action or attention.

Following Safe working Practices, Risk assessments and Method statements and instructions from senior team members and utilising PPE at all times when performing work

Working as part of the team with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude

Being willing to learn and develop skills and knowledge via internal and external training and courses. Also, by means of toolbox talks, SOPs and discussions

Providing first aid and supporting the first aid team in dealing with incidents when required including when providing duty cover due to adverse weather on weekends

Be willing to engage with our visitors, offering assistance when needed and delivering an exceptional standard of customer service

To adhere to existing working practices, methods, procedures, undertake relevant training and development activities and to respond positively to new and alternative systems.

To co-operate with relevant health and safety legislation, policies and procedures in the performance of the duties of the post.

To carry out the duties and responsibilities of the post in compliance with the Company’s equal opportunities policies.

To maintain confidentiality and observe data protection and associated guidelines where appropriate.

To understand and comply with the Company’s environmental policies

To carry out any other reasonable duties and responsibilities within the overall function, commensurate with the grading and level of responsibilities of the post

Essential Qualifications:

Full British Driving Licence qualified to either D1, D1E, D, DE (no 101 restriction),

PSV CPC

Digi tacho driver card

Key Skills:

A keen interest in BikePark Wales.

Minimum 1 year experience in a transport supervision role

A good understanding of O Licence compliance

A positive ‘can do’ attitude

Highly organised and be administratively competent

Solid working understanding of MS Office Sharp problem-solving skills, 

Willingness to learn and complete internal and external training courses

Over 21 Years old for insurance purposes 

Desirable skills:

Previous experience of working as a passenger driver

Comfortable working with members of the public

Familiar with using a digital tachograph

Ability to communicate in the Welsh language

Enhanced DBS certificate

Emergency outdoor First Aid qualifications

If you wish to apply for this role, please e-mail [email protected]

Note: The details contained in this Job Description summarise the main expectations of the role at the date it was prepared. The nature of individual roles will evolve and change as the service develops and grows. Consequently, BikePark Wales will review and revise this Job Description as required in consultation with post holders.

BikePark Wales welcomes enquiries and applications from everyone and values diversity in the workplace. A commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

BikePark Wales is responsible for deciding how it holds and uses personal information about you and complies with all data protection law and principles. Any personal information that you provide to us during the recruitment process will be stored on a computer to assist with the administration of the recruitment process.

We will use the personal information we collect about you to:

Assess your skills, qualifications, and suitability for the role;

Carry out background and reference checks, where applicable;

Communicate with you about the recruitment process;

Keep records related to our hiring processes; and

Comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

We also need to process your personal information to decide whether to enter into a contract of employment with you but we will not store your personal information for any longer than is necessary.

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