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Job Title:              Maintenance Technician

Location:              The position is based at the National Sortation Centre/ Essington

The APC is a nationwide parcel company with depots throughout the UK.  We pride ourselves on providing quality and outstanding levels of customer service

Responsible to:   Maintenance Manager

Summary:            To work with the maintenance team with specific responsibilities for planned, preventative and reactive maintenance on all buildings, plant equipment, Sortation Equipment, conveyors.

Main Duties:

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.

Requirements:

Essential:

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

Desirable:

Forklift Licence
Access Platform Licence

Hours:

37.5 hours per week to be worked Monday to Friday – . Flexibility required

Other Information:

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

The APC is an Equal Opportunities Employer.          

Job Description

Job Title:                    Bailing Machine Operative

The Company:           APC Overnight is the UKs largest next day delivery network, with more than 112 local depots covering all areas of the country. 

Job Summary:           To operate our Bailing shrink-wrap machine to package products according to levels of shrink wrap in the yard.

Responsible to:         Maintenance Manager

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Proactive and flexible approach, team player with a professional attitude.
Good communication skills.
Be role adaptable, achieving the maintenance teams daily tasks.
Understanding of the correct manual handling procedures.
Understanding of Health and Safety.

Main Responsibilities:

Check daily shrink wrap levels, setting up with bailing machine accordingly
Loading and unloading of wrapped products, observing the operation of the machine to ensure wrapping is performed correctly and make any adjustments to the operation as needed. Ensuring the product is taken to the drop off area for Forklift Drivers to move.
To log and record quantities of products wrapped and report on any quantities and defects to the Maintenance Manager
Basic maintenance on the shrink-wrap machine: banding levels, cleaning out, grease checks
Create and keep an inventory of supplies informing the Maintenance Manager of any orders required.
Any other duties as required

Other information:

This is a physically demanding role, with lots of heavy lifting, and standing for long periods of time.

Hours of work: 08.00 – 16.00, Monday to Friday.

The APC is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Strictly no agencies

Job Description

Job Title:  Management Accountant – 12 month Fixed Term Contract

The Company:

APC Overnight is the UKs largest next day delivery network, with more than 115 local depots covering all areas of the country. 

Job Summary:

This will be a varied role to support the Head of Finance with a mix of routine weekly, monthly management accounts including reporting on key data and financial analysis. With the other side of the role focusing on project and adhoc work which will evolve as you develop in the role. The Finance team is continually improving, and you will play a key part in this.

Responsible to:         Head of Finance

Skills/Knowledge and Experience:

Qualified ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Enthusiastic and flexible approach, and able to work on own initiative
Strong Excel and analytical skills
Excellent time management and organisational skills
SAP knowledge preferable

Main Responsibilities:

Assisting with production of the weekly and monthly management accounts
Excellent analytical skills - An ability to analyse financial performance, identify trends and provide recommendations
Liaising with stakeholders on financial matters
HMRC and Government compliance including VAT returns
Budgeting and forecasting
Payroll support
Project support
Adhoc analysis and reporting
Review and maintain department controls and best practice

Other information:

37.5 per week to be worked Monday – Friday 

The APC is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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

Job Description

Job Title:                   Lost Property Assistant

Location:                    APC Overnight is a nationwide parcel company with 105 locations throughout the UK.  We pride ourselves on quality and outstanding levels of customer service.

Job Summary:           The main objective is to assist in the identification of freight and the day to day duties required within the Day Operations team.

Responsible to:         Lost Property Supervisor

Performance Standards:     You will be expected to complete your duties in a professional manner and to a high level.

Skills/requirements:

• Professional telephone manner
• Basic experience of Microsoft Word and Excel
• Good organisational skills
• Problem solving abilities
• Attention to detail
• Security conscious

Main duties:

• Sorting the unidentified (UID) freight, repackaging and forwarding on when necessary
• Investigating unlabeled freight and labelling matched goods
• Liaising with depots and customers regarding UID goods
• Dealing with incoming calls
• Data inputting
• Develop a working relationship with depots by handling questions and concerns with speed and professionalism
• Follow up customer enquires that are not immediately resolved
• Recognise and advise the Lost Property Manager of trends in customer calls
• Assist the Lost Property Supervisor with arranging same day collection and deliveries when necessary
• Processing and updating manifests, spreadsheets and APC website
• Other general operational (day) duties as the position requires
• A strict adherence to the UID policies and procedures in place 
• Provide a comprehensive support function to the Lost Property Supervisor

This list is not exhaustive and you may be required to perform additional duties

Hours of work:            37.5 hours per week

Other Information: Flexibility will be required to cover holidays and sickness, absence etc.

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

APC Overnight is an Equal Opportunities Employer

Job Title: Night Operations Manager     

The Company: APC Overnight is the National Sortation Centre for a network of 105 independent locations covering all areas of the country.  We pride ourselves on delivering a first class service.

Job Summary: As one of a team of four managers you will assume operational and leadership responsibility for night operations at our National Sortation Centre. This will involve management of health & safety, resources, systems and processes to ensure the operation performs compliantly, efficiently and effectively. The role holder will have responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating performance improvements and applying continuous improvement measures to provide the best possible service to our Network and Customers.

Responsible to: Head of Hub Operations

Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

The role holder would be expected to have the following skills and experience:

• Exceptional people leadership skills
• Recognised health & safety qualification and relevant experience of managing safety management systems.
• Excellent communication skills
• Budgetary experience, the ability to proactively manage costs to achieve P&L budget, whilst maintaining / improving service.
• Ability to operate proactively and quickly to changing/challenging circumstances
• Industry experience (obtained within a parcels or logistics environment)
• Analytical and project management experience, with the ability to lead and manage process and performance improvement changes.
• Results driven - experience of working in a fast paced, time sensitive environment

Main Responsibilities:

• The main areas of responsibility and expectations for this role are as detailed below:
• Provide strong leadership and empower the operations management team with clearly defined responsibilities.
• Ensure all requirements relating health, safety, the environment and quality are fully complied.
• Overall responsibility for resource planning, quality and service performance within the operation.
• Create and maintain a committed, engaged and high performing workforce.
• Manage and control the night operation activities to meet budgeted unit costs whilst maintaining exceptional service.
• Manage employee performance, conduct issues, disciplinary meetings, grievances and absences etc.
• Develop continuous improvement management practices. Delivering efficiency improvements to achieve cost reductions, at the same time as driving improvements in service and compliance.
• Maintain and deliver robust senior management reporting systems and timely accurate analysis of KPI data.
• Actively promote a strong cross functional team working ethos to ensure effective cross functional communication and the provision of a high level of support into the night operation. 

This list is not exhaustive and you may be required to perform other duties as the role develops.

Other Information:

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

APC is an Equal Opportunities Employer