Transport Team Leader
- Posted 10 December 2025
- Salary £14.50
- LocationPeterlee
- Job type Permanent - Full Time
- Discipline Internal
- Reference045724
- Job FunctionOperations
- Expiry date 28 December 2025
Job description
Role Details:
- Shift Times: 6am to 10am Start Time
- Pay Rate: £14.50 per hour
- Shift Pattern: Monday to Saturday with a rolling rest day
Shifts are planned in at 8.5 hours long
Why Greencore?
We’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn. Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.
What you'll be doing:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Transport Team Leader to join our Team based at our Peterlee Depot. You will be part of a small team responsible for overseeing the Greencore delivery network. The operation runs 364 days a year and is a fast paced depot to start a transport career. As a Team Leader you will be responsible for but not limited to:
- Admin work/ Data input
- Interacting with drivers
- Liaising with customer service and thirds parties over email and phone
- Overlooking van routes to ensure smooth delivery
- Manage the workload of the drivers, ensuring efficient allocation of resources.
- Control and manage KPI requirements
- Being a strong example of safe Health and Safety practices
- Overseeing the day to day running of the HGVs and Vans routes
- Reporting into Transport Management
- Ongoing training, including health and safety, manual handling and driving assessments
What we’re looking for:
- Experience working within the transport industry is desirable
- Experience working with chilled produce is preferred
- Good attention to detail
- Self-disciplined and able to work under pressure to ensure deadlines are met
- Be computer literate, including the use of Excel spreadsheets
At Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better. If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.
What you’ll get in return:
- Weekly pay
- Free onsite carpark
- Pension up to 8% matched
- Life insurance up to 4x salary
- Company share save scheme
- Greencore Qualifications
- Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
- Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.