Logistics Coordinator

Job description

As a growing family business, we are looking for the perfect candidate to ensure the safe and efficient running of our yard in Warrington.

We are looking for a Yard / Logistics Coordinator to join our friendly team in Warrington, administrating the maintenance and issue of tools, PPE, hired plant, deliveries, stock, fleet management and maintaining the yard.

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for managing all activities taking place in our yard / warehouse
• Ensuring all vehicles, equipment and materials are parked / stored in a correct manner
• Plant keyset holder
• Responsibility for Parking Eye management at the depot
• Responsible for ensuring all equipment is logged in / out upon departure / arrival
• Responsible for ordering and controlling stock. Stock taking and ensuring that stocks are kept of certain items
• Log hire equipment. Ensure timely off hire of hired equipment. Maintaining records
• Reporting any lost or stolen tools and equipment
• Maintaining our tools, PAT testing, arranging servicing, repairs. Keeping up to date records
• Washing and cleaning all returned tools and equipment to a high standard before its next use
• Organising and coordinating incoming and outgoing plant, including meet and greet of plant delivered to sites in the area as required
• Management of plant servicing for machines being operated by the depot
• Carry out the day-to-day maintenance of the yard / warehouse and car parking area (making sure that it is swept and kept tidy)
• Understanding of lifting legislation (LOLER, Network Rail lift planning) and associated rules around safe lifting operations
• Management of depot waste, including quarantine of plant, tools and electrical items (WEEE guidelines for electrical items, railway insulated tools)
• Support emergency Works with materials ordering and supply chain management
• Carry out any site deliveries for stocked equipment and tools, as required by the site management team
• Ensuring that plant and equipment being sent out holds the required in date inspections and testing certification
• Ensuring the plant and equipment being sent out are fully charged (batteries, task lights, radios)
• Assisting to service and maintain our fleet of vehicles

The ideal candidate will have

• Have an understanding of yard duties
• Full UK Driving License, ideally with Class 2 HGV
• Plant Operations – Telehandler/Forklift licence
• Plant Operations – Understanding of Civils and RRV plant
• Understanding of logistics, including Transport Orders and safe storage
• Experience of the construction / rail industry
• Have good interpersonal skills.
• Have excellent communication skills at all levels.
• Excellent IT skills – MS Office, Excel
• Must be organised and be able to implement systems
• Someone that is physically active as this role will involve lifting heavy material

This is an exciting opportunity to work for a company within the rail industry with progression opportunities within the wider business group.

Benefits

• Free on site parking
• 23 days annual leave

If you think this could be you then please apply within, or send your CV to recruitment@prorailservices.co.uk or call 01707 927400 for more details.

About Pro Rail Services

Pro Rail Services is a national railway civil engineering contractor delivering specialist innovative and effective solutions to the UK rail infrastructure industry.

We are a family run business leading the way in innovation for railway engineering, infrastructure and plant.

Our commitment to self-delivery ensures the highest levels of safety and delivery performance. Our management team has over 25 years’ experience in delivering complex multi-million-pound programmes, providing dynamic solutions to complex organisational, technical and commercial problems.

We are a Network Rail POS licence holder with our own fleet of specialised road rail vehicles and drainage plant and attachments, we retain our own skilled labour and safety critical staff, and can provide a full survey, design and build solution.

We are also a Network Rail Principal Contractor and hold our own PCL licence.

We are a Zero RIDDOR business since our inception in 2012 and have never handed back a possession late.

Note to recruiters

Strictly no agencies please.