Shunter

We believe in providing meaningful work and achieving a real work/life balance. Here, you'll find both. Our Supply Chain team is the engine room for getting thousands of products from farms and factories to our millions of customers every day. We leverage insight and data to anticipate customer needs, ensuring they get what they want, when they need it. You'll be part of a team that is data-driven and judgement-focused, always the first to identify and address any issues or ambiguities. A culture of collaboration, customer obsession, and continuous improvement drives us to deliver market-leading product availability and operational excellence, and fuels our innovation. Our Supply Chain team calls for people who champion change, are customer-obsessed, data-driven, and excel at collaborating and communicating effectively - because those people can go a very long way.

You don’t get to be one of the nation’s largest and most loved supermarkets without a brilliant team — and Shunter Drivers like you keep Sainsbury’s moving day in, day out. Fancy joining us?

Being a Sainsbury’s Shunter Driver is more than supporting getting goods from depot to store on time and in perfect condition. It’s about helping your community eat, shop and live better, all while being part of a family that just so happens to be about 187,000-people strong. After all, making the best-quality products available in-store for our customers is what we’re in this for. Just ask the millions of people up and down the country who choose to shop with us every week.

Role Overview

Establishing and maintaining best standard of vehicle movement within the yard, providing a full and thorough shunting service is delivered to the depot. Responsibility for instigating all appropriate policies, procedures, processes and legislative changes for all aspects of yard shunting

Role Requirements

• Review operational progress on a regular basis during the shift and reschedule vehicles and activities as appropriate to achieve planned work in the most cost effective way and, provide details of any changes to colleagues during the shift and at shift changeover.
• Allocate vehicles within an appropriate timescale and to the correct loading bays to ensure that product is loaded and unloaded for the correct customers.
• Organise and supervise all vehicle movements on and off loading bays and around the yard to optimise the utilisation of vehicles to ensure safe delivery of the daily plan.
• Organise or undertake all trailer and unit swaps in accordance with Company Health and Safety procedures to ensure safe delivery of the daily plan.
• Make recommendations for improvements in the use of vehicles based on sufficient, valid and reliable information, which take into account the impact of such changes on other parts of the operation.
• Continuously monitor the use and quality of resources, for example, vehicles, loading bays, yard space etc) to ensure consistency and cost effectiveness of service delivery and report to the Fleet Manager on variations from the expected standard.
• Take prompt corrective action where problems with the use of resources within area of control are identified and ensure that these changes are recorded and reported to the Fleet Manager.
• Ensure that all fridge units are running and set to the correct temperature prior to the trailer being loaded

Key Role Responsibilities:

Health & Safety – commitment to safety

• Understands, encourages and complies with company/site safety policies and procedures; completes all required training and takes personal responsibility for the safety of themselves and others
• Understand and advise drivers on the Health and Safety Policy, Company Safety Rules and statutory requirements for all areas under direct control.
• Ensure all daily, weekly and monthly yard related checks are completed to the appropriate standard.
• Ensure all records of accidents and incidents (personal and vehicle) are completed to the required standard.
• Assist with conducting initial investigations into all accidents and dangerous occurrences.
• Assist with ensuring that all remedial action is taken in respect of all reported defects and complaints relating to health and safety.
• Implement all vehicle defect reporting systems and procedures and ensure that appropriate response and remedial/corrective action is taken where defects are reported and highlighted.
• Ensure that the pre-start check system is maintained by all drivers of Company vehicles.
• Understand and advise others on the regulations governing the use of Company vehicles on the roads.
• Check incoming vehicles for defects on the units and trailers and report defective vehicles to the Transport Manager.
• Carry out all minor repairs on units and trailers, for example, replace electric and air lines, replace bulbs and replace minor consumable parts.
• Collect and deliver units and trailers from the vehicle repair shop.
• Organise vehicle repairers and tyre companies in the event of a breakdown when the Fleet Supervisor is unavailable or the breakdown occurs out of hours.
• Inspect the inside of trailers and wash trailer interiors when required so that they conform to the standards required by customers for carrying their product.
• Inspect the cleanliness of all units as they are shunted around the yard and report those that do not reach the standard required by Company, to the Transport Manager.

Knowledge and Experience required:

• Works co-operatively and willingly with others to achieve common objectives.
• Has a sense of urgency and works diligently to achieve timelines
• Effective Interpersonal and communication skills
• Assertive, can do, makes things happen attitude
• Flexible and adaptable to evolving business needs
• Able to multi-task

Your benefits:

• Pre-planned shifts
• Work with the best colleagues and the latest equipment
• Season ticket loan after you’ve completed 12 weeks of service and passed your probation
• Discount card after 4 weeks that gives you 10% off your Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat shopping
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
• Cycle to work scheme available
• Full PPE provided
• Comprehensive training to help you perform well in the role

We are a proud equal opportunities employer that values diversity at every level of our business. Inclusion and Diversity are fundamental to our culture and values, fostering an innovative, collaborative, and fast paced work environment that means we can build a better future for our colleagues and our customers. Everyone is welcome.