Transport Deputy Shift Team Leader

Transport Deputy Shift Team Leader

Location: RAF Brize Norton, Carterton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (OX18 3LX)

Job ID: 307988

Employment Type: Full-Time, Regular

Schedule: Full-time, average of 42 hours per week (Shift pattern: 2 days, 2 nights, 4 days off)

Salary: £35,087.50 per annum (inclusive of shift allowance)

About Supportive Bridge Staffing Agency

At Supportive Bridge, we connect skilled logistics, transport, and defense-support professionals with critical careers across the UK public sector. Partnering with leading operations providers, we specialize in placing candidates into stable, mission-critical roles where your operational expertise keeps essential movements running safely, efficiently, and on schedule.

Role Overview

As a Transport Deputy Shift Team Leader at RAF Brize Norton, you will help keep essential military transport operations running smoothly. Working alongside a dedicated team, your leadership and hands-on coordination ensure that critical transport services are delivered safely, legally, and on time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operational Coordination: Support the Shift Team Leader with the daily running, supervision, and resource allocation of transport operations.

• Driving Duties: Undertake professional driving duties as required to support mission requirements.

• Fleet Management & Safety: Follow rigorous procedures for reporting vehicle faults, defects, and breakdowns while promoting a strict, zero-compromise safety-first culture.

• Vehicle Scheduling: Allocate trained and qualified personnel to suitable vehicles, ensuring safe, cost-effective scheduling.

• Compliance & Legislation: Ensure full adherence to Operator’s Licence requirements, ISO standards, the HASAW Act, COSHH, and relevant transport legislation, escalating any compliance risks immediately.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for an organized, safety-conscious transport professional with strong leadership qualities and the required driving credentials.

Requirements:

• Driving Licences: Full UK Driving Licence with Cat D & C entitlement (C+E is highly desirable), alongside a valid DCPC Licence for the respective categories held.

• Airfield Eligibility: Ability to hold a colour perception category of the required standard to enable the issue of an Airfield Driving Permit.

• Core Competencies: Strong organizational skills, supervisory capability, and a proactive approach to safety and regulatory compliance.

• Vetting Readiness: Prepared to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance and potential formal Security Clearance (such as CTC or SC), including UK residency checks and an occupational health assessment.

What We Offer You

• Financial Benefits: Competitive salary of £35,000.50 per annum (inclusive of shift allowance) and up to a 6% matched contributory pension scheme.

• Leave Package: Competitive annual leave entitlement.

• Training & Progression: Access to over 1,100 internal training courses, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager pathways), mentorship, and clear internal career progression.

• Health & Wellbeing: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, a wellbeing app, 24/7 virtual GP service, and 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres.

• Perks & Community: Around 1,000 retail discounts, a paid volunteering day, payroll-giving charitable schemes, and active employee inclusion networks (LGBTQIA+, women, parents, and carers).

Our Recruitment Process & Equal Opportunities

• Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans, and individuals with convictions who meet the minimum job criteria are guaranteed an interview.

• Ban the Box: We champion fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions (subject to security clearance requirements). Reasonable adjustments are fully supported from interview through employment.