Careers

Skills/Experience:

• At least 2 years’ experience and knowledge of transport planning operations
• Advanced knowledge of transport management systems i.e. route optimisation package
• Excellent communication skills and detail orientation
• Must have ability to analyse and model complex data sets
• Excellent understanding of transport commercial vehicle and O Licence legislation
• Up to date knowledge of driver’s hours working time regulations
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to prioritise and handle multiple tasks
• Ability to work as a team, be supportive and accomplish business goals
• A good knowledge of Transport budgetary controls
• Vendor management and knowledge of service level agreements relating to Linehaul operations required
• The ability to analyse Linehaul KPI’s and compile reports to drive improvements in cost, service and compliance performance.

Main duties:

The main areas of responsibility and expectations for this role are as detailed below:

• Model, develop and plan Linehaul solutions at tactical and strategic levels
• To manage Linehaul projects from concept, develop business cases, plan implementation and evaluate against business case following completion
• Develop Linehaul cost, service performance and compliance controls supported by relevant KPI reports
• Apply a continuous improvement approach to all aspects of Linehaul operations
• Maintain excellent stakeholder engagement within the company and across the Network to ensure optimal solutions are delivered
• Maintain existing and develop new Linehaul plans and controls to meet the needs of the business
• Plan and support 3rd party transport vendor management
• Any other duties which support improvements to control, optimisation, compliance and performance of Transport & Linehaul operations.

Other Information:

As this role develops you may be required to develop your skills further

Responsible to:   Maintenance Manager

Main Responsibilities:

The main duties that will be required of you within this position are:

• To conduct regular reactive and preventative maintenance on the conveyor systems
• To maintain and repair the conveyor systems 
• To carry out any improvements/modifications deemed necessary to the conveyor system
• To carry out any electrical/mechanical repair work, installation or fault finding of new equipment and circuits
• To ensure that the company’s health & safety policy and procedures are maintained
• To observe and comply with company health and safety policies and procedures and ensure that work is carried out in a safe and proper manner at all times
• To provide first line breakdown/defect repairs or support to the night operation in the event of a mechanical breakdown (you will be on call on a rotating rota basis)
• Work to resolve breakdowns with the Assistant Maintenance Manager
• Any other general maintenance duties as the position requires
• Involved in site improvements, Sortation system Modifications, project work.

Skills/Knowledge and Experience:

• 17th Edition qualified
• City and Guilds to Level 3 mechanical or Electrical. NVQ qualification in electrical principles or mechanical engineering to Level 3 or both
• A good understanding of PLC Systems and pneumatic principles
• Flexibility to cover Days or Nights when required
• High level of attention to detail
• A proactive approach
• Good organisational skills
• A team player
• Ability to work on own initiative
• A forklift truck and access platform licence would be desirable, but not essential

Other Information:

As this role develops you may be required to develop your skills further. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Job Title:                    Javascript Developer (Full Stack)

Location:                    APC Overnight is a leading nation-wide parcel company with depots throughout the UK and a national Sortation Hub located in Cannock, Staffordshire.  We pride ourselves on quality and outstanding levels of customer service.

Job Summary:         

IT is one of APC’s competitive differentiators and is facilitating the achievement of the company’s business objectives. Working closely with the appropriate business departments, internal IT teams and selected vendors, the Web Developer will be responsible for delivering reliable, high performing web applications and services to the APC business under the guidance of the Business Systems Manager. In addition to delivering new solutions, the web developer will also have responsibility for supporting and potentially further developing existing web based systems.

To be successful in this role, the candidate needs to be analytical, showing good attention to detail, and be experienced in developing and delivering high quality code that is thoroughly tested.

Interested candidates should their GitHub username and/or link to their portfolio along with their CV.

Responsible to:         Business Systems Manager

Performance Standards: 

The Web Developer will be operating across the IT and other business departments, and is expected to work in a professional manner and to a high quality level.

He/she will be responsible for the provisions of development estimates, development and testing of web based applications. APC methodologies will be adhered to.

Occasional out of hours working may be required as determined by project needs.

Essential Skills:

• Degree level qualification or equivalent in an IT relevant subject
• Demonstrable maintenance of skill sets by continuous development and knowledge acquisition
• Strong web development skills and a passion to deliver reliable, secure and high performance web applications that deliver business benefit. Expected skills:
• Server-side (NodeJS) and client-side Javascript
• HTML5 and HTML templating languages (Pug, Handlebars etc)
• CSS3 and CSS pre-processors (SCSS/LESS)
• Git version control
• Unit and Integration testing (TDD. Mocha, Chai etc)
• Understanding of MVC and OO design patterns
• Understanding of clean code principles and adherence to code style guides (StandardJS, ESLint etc)
• Defensive Programming (Prevention of cross-script attack, sql injection, path manipulation)
• Good code documentation and commit message writing
• Comfortable on a unix command line

Advantageous skills:

• Knowledge and experience of IT systems in a logistics business environment
• Familiarity with ES6/ES7 features
• Working in a continuous integration/deployment environment
• Writing build and deployment automation scripts (Bash, Jenkins etc)
• Front end JS frameworks (Vue, Angular, React, JQuery etc)
• Server-side MVC frameworks (AdonisJS, Laravel, CodeIgniter)
• Building and consuming RESTful web services 
• SQL database design and query optimisation (MSSQL, MySQL) Experience of launching web applications on mobile devices through wrappers (IOS/Android) and/or progressive web application development
• Scrum/kanban methodology
• JavaScript build process – Webpack, Grunt, Gulp etc.
• Message queuing (RabbitMQ, Kue etc)
• Performance and scalability optimisation (Client-side and server-side)
• User tracking and reporting (Google Analytics, Piwik etc)
• E2E and functional testing (WebDriver, protractor etc)

Nice to have:

• Contributions to open source software (Github, NPM)
• Experience of designing and implementing micro service architectures
• Experience of other server side web languages (PHP, .Net, Python, Perl, Ruby etc)
• Linux web server management (Ubuntu, Nginx, PM2 etc)
• Cloud server management (AWS)
• Docker Containerisation
• NoSQL databases (Redis, MongoDB)

Other Information:

The Depots and Hub staff work during the business day; major user activity also takes place at the Hub overnight and good IT cover is essential 24/6.  The IT Department is expected to deal with incidents not managed by our external providers.

APC Overnight is an Equal Opportunities Employer