Transport Supervisor
Role Overview: The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the safe, efficient, and professional operation of all school transportation services.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee all school vehicles and ensure they are safe, roadworthy, and regularly serviced.
- Implement and monitor systems for daily checks, cleaning, fuelling, servicing, and repairs.
- Maintain accurate records of maintenance schedules and vehicle documentation.
- Manage and supervise all drivers, ensuring professionalism, punctuality, and readiness.
- Plan and coordinate driver schedules, training, and availability, including cover for absences.
- Coordinate ad hoc travel requests and communicate clearly with all involved parties.
- Manage bookings for all school transport, including airport runs, staff pool car requests, and student trips.
- Work in conjunction with the Security Manager to ensure that school transport operates under appropriate safeguarding and security standards.
- Ensure that student and staff transport services are safe, timely, and efficient.
- Monitor feedback and continuously improve transport operations.
- Stay current with best practices and innovations in transport management and safety.
- Attend relevant trainings and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
Qualifications, Skills and Knowledge:
- Relevant qualification in Transport Management or Logistics.
- Proven experience in fleet or transport coordination.
- Experience in an educational or child-focused setting.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Strong knowledge of vehicle safety, servicing, and licensing regulations.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks with attention to detail.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Customer service training.
- Conflict resolution or negotiation skills.
Personal Traits:
- Integrity and trustworthiness.
- Proactive problem solver with a positive attitude.
- Adaptability and willingness to take on new responsibilities.
- Professionalism, discretion, and reliability.
- Commitment to upholding the values and ethos of Charterhouse Lagos.
- Ability to maintain a professional demeanour.
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Safeguarding
Charterhouse Lagos is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students and expects all applicants to share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practices which are aligned with recommendations from the International Task Force on Child Protection. We aspire to the highest international standards of recruiting practices with specific attention to child protection. All appointments are subject to interviews, identity checks, criminal record checks, social media checks and successful references.
Data Protection
The personal data relating to candidates, including personal data provided in, or along with the enquiry and application forms, is required to be collected by Charterhouse Lagos/The Huntington Education Group, for purposes of candidate evaluation, and facilitating the recruitment process. By providing us with your personal data, you give your consent to us for collecting, retaining, processing, transferring (including cross-border transfer) and disclosing personal data to any third parties (including intra-group) for achieving the above purpose.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Charterhouse Lagos, we want everyone to feel valued, appreciated, and free to be who they are at work, whilst remaining true to the culture and laws of Nigeria. Our recruitment processes are designed to prevent discrimination regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique.
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