🗂️ Job Title: Trainee Transport Operator
📍 Location: Felixstowe

🕔 Hours: Mon–Fri, 8am–5pm

About the Role 💼

You’ll coordinate daily routes, schedule collections and deliveries, and brief drivers clearly. You’ll monitor live jobs and ETAs, keep TMS/WMS and POD details up to date, communicate with customers and depots, prepare essential paperwork, and support driver debriefs and core fleet admin.

You’ll need

🏫 GCSEs or equivalent

🚗 Full UK driving licence advantageous

🕘 Hours: Mon–Fri, office hours (overtime as needed)

What You’ll Be Doing:

🗺️ Support daily route planning and vehicle scheduling

📞 Book collections/deliveries; brief drivers with clear instructions

⏱️ Track live jobs/ETAs and resolve delays proactively

💻 Update TMS/WMS with accurate job, vehicle, and POD info

🤝 Communicate with customers, depots, and subcontractors

🧾 Prepare manifests, delivery notes, PODs, and compliance records

🧰 Assist with driver debriefs, defect reporting, and basic fleet admin

About You:

🎯 Genuine interest in logistics and building a career in transport

🗣️ Confident communicator (phone/email), calm under pressure

🧩 Organised, detail-focused, and great at multitasking

🖥️ Computer-literate (MS Office/Google); quick to learn systems

🤝 Team player with a proactive, solution-first mindset

🕒 Flexible for occasional early starts/late finishes in peak periods

🗺️ Basic UK geography helpful; awareness of drivers’ hours/WTD a plus

 What’s On Offer:

💷 Competitive starting salary + benefits (discussed at interview)

📈 Clear progression to Transport Operator/Planner

🧭 Structured training and mentorship

📍 Permanent, full-time in Felixstowe

📢 Next Steps:
Ready to be a key player as a Trainee Transport Operator, then Apply now!
📞 01394 570 156 / 01473 375 158
📧 info@lmerecruitment.com
🌐 www.lmerecruitment.co.uk

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