Transport Compliance Manager
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Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring full compliance with Operator Licence undertakings, transport legislation, and company policies.
- Maintaining oversight of vehicle inspections, maintenance programmes, fleet documentation, and audit readiness.
- Monitoring fleet utilisation and operational performance, identifying risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Supporting the transport team to deliver against operational targets, service levels, and compliance objectives.
- Leading investigations into incidents, accidents, and compliance breaches, implementing corrective and preventative actions.
- Championing a strong health, safety, and compliance culture across the operation.
- Providing coaching and support to managers and supervisors, ensuring consistent standards and best practice.
- Producing compliance reports, analysing performance data, and providing recommendation.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Manager CPC (Certificate of Professional Competence).
- Comprehensive knowledge of Operator Licence compliance and UK & EU transport legislation.
- Experience managing compliance within a commercial fleet environment.
- Strong understanding of Working Time Directive regulations and driver compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of vehicle maintenance planning and fleet governance processes.
- Proven people management and leadership experience.
- Experience conducting investigations, hearings, and disciplinary processes.
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and organisational skills.
- Ability to build effective relationships with regulators, customers, and internal stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
Job Benefits
- Safety
- Always look out for our own and each other's safety.
- Proactively identify safety risks, hazards and unsafe behaviours promptly and courageously.
- Comply with all relevant safety regulations and standards at all times.
- Learn from mistakes and share that learning.
- Customer Focus
- Delight customers by actively anticipating their needs, concerns and preferences.
- Offer alternative "yes" solutions to "no" situations.
- Deliver service excellence and always aim to exceed customer expectations.
- Respect
- Appreciate everyone's background, cultural values and opinions at all times.
- Actively listen and understand other's intent and point of view, especially during disagreements.
- Build trusting relationships, demonstrate empathy and care for others.
- Excellence
- Always do the right thing. Do it right the first time.
- Demonstrate extreme ownership: See it, Own it, Solve it.
- Adopt a growth mindset: keep learning, stay agile, be resilient.
- Set high expectations, embrace innovation and practice continuous improvement.
- Teamwork
- Prioritise SATS Group's interests over one's own and department needs.
- Proactively share resources, ideas and information constructively.
- Build on each other's strengths and ideas to achieve win-win outcomes.
Requirements
- Manager CPC (Certificate of Professional Competence).
- Comprehensive knowledge of Operator Licence compliance and UK & EU transport legislation.
- Experience managing compliance within a commercial fleet environment.
- Strong understanding of Working Time Directive regulations and driver compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of vehicle maintenance planning and fleet governance processes.
- Proven people management and leadership experience.
- Experience conducting investigations, hearings, and disciplinary processes.
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and organisational skills.
- Ability to build effective relationships with regulators, customers, and internal stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
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