ES Senior Transport Manager

ES Senior Transport Manager

Location: Home based
Salary: £53,000 plus excellent benefits
Schedule: Full time – national role with regular travel as required

Ready to impact a better future?

As an ES Senior Transport Manager in our Environmental Services team, you’ll provide strategic leadership and oversight of transport compliance and fleet operations, ensuring safe, legal, and reliable services that support our contracts and communities.

This is a senior opportunity, shaping how transport management operates, providing assurance that we meet our Operator Licence obligations while driving consistency, performance, and continuous improvement. Your work will help protect our people, our contracts, and the communities that rely on our services every day.

What you’ll do as an ES Senior Transport Manager

You’ll be entrusted to:

• Provide leadership, direction, and performance management to Transport Managers across Environmental Services
• Ensure full compliance with Operator Licence undertakings and UK road transport legislation, maintaining continuous and effective control
• Act as the senior escalation point for transport compliance risks, regulatory concerns, and operational issues
• Oversee fleet maintenance, inspections, and availability to support service delivery and contract performance
• Drive consistent use of systems, standards, and reporting across all operational sites
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance safety, compliance, efficiency, and cost control

Does this sound like you?

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• A National Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) in Road Haulage or equivalent
• Proven experience in fleet management, transport compliance, or operational leadership roles
• Strong knowledge of Operator Licence compliance and UK road transport legislation
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, influence stakeholders, and deliver performance through others
• Experience working in regulated environments with accountability for risk and compliance

Vetting and checks:

As well as checking eligibility to work in the UK, you will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to help us identify and provide any support you may need to undertake the role effectively.

Discover all you need to keep growing

We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays (and the option to buy up to five additional leave days each year)
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Bonus: A performance-based bonus scheme
• Company car: A company car or cash alternative
• Private medical insurance
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a strong focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Savings across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment, and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, and support for the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Inclusive networks that connect and support colleagues across LGBTQIA+ communities, gender, disability, carers, veterans, and cultural backgrounds

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.  We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

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At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.  For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
 

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