Shunting Fleet Manager Job Vacancy at Alistair Group

Alistair Group is one of East and Southern Africa’s fastest-growing service companies, providing a variety of self-delivered logistics solutions across several geographies, aimed with the vision to Make Africa Work Better! With core competencies in road freight, warehousing, commodity trading and operational hire of material handling equipment, the Group strives for continuous expansion of innovative ancillary services to grow the business vertically, complimented by a healthy dose of entrepreneurial flair. The business has gone from strength to strength, growing quickly in both its geographical coverage and variety of services offered to clients. In 2024, the Group exceeded the 1000-employee mark and managed a fleet of well over 1000 trucks. With Alistair’s aggressive and exciting growth strategy, the Group is poised for significant further expansion and a greater impact in Africa.

Core Services:
▪              Freight Forwarding
▪              Clearance & Forwarding
▪              Energy Industry Support Services
▪              Equipment Rental
▪              Commodity Trading
▪              Integrated Solutions
▪              Warehousing
▪              Ocean Freight

Industries:
▪              Mining
▪              Oil & Gas
▪              Agriculture
▪              Construction
▪              Explosives
▪              Renewables

Vision
To make Africa work better

Company Behaviours
Honesty, Customer Focus, Continual Improvement, Humility, and Safety.

Accountability & Responsibility Areas

• Setting up the new role by implementing best practice from running the transit team.
• Coordinating with the clearing team to determine how many bookings will have permits ready in the next 24-48 hrs.
• Coordinating with the warehouse team on trucks arrival at the warehouse for loading.
• Coordinating with the staff onsite at the warehouse to ensure the ‘Shunting Operations Form’ is being used.
• Making sure all the inputs from the forms on fire sheets are copied in accurately on the ‘Shunting
• Operations Sheet’ on Smart sheets.
• Creating automations, opening and closing trips per shunt.
• Ensuring the Advance and Settlement Proposals for each transporter are coming out timely.
• Tracking, collecting and uploading POD sets which includes container interchanges and movement sheets for each shunt.
• Allocating bookings to transporters to ensure timely uplifts of each container to the port.
• Organizing transporters to pick up empty containers from container depots and deliver to the warehouse for stuffing operations.
• Source for trucks for Local containers being transported from Dar es Salaam and Mombasa port to the Mkuranga project site for Knauf.
• Resolve operational challenges as they arise.
• Escalate to Head of Operations within 1 hour in case there is a challenge which has not been solved or is in the process of being resolved for clarity purposes.
• Ensure all the Loading Confirmations are sent to the transporters prior to the work starting and Settlement Proposals are sent out the same week of the job.
• Recommend or highlight different challenges which may arise to allow the position to grow and increase efficiency.

Education, Skill and Qualifications

• A minimum of University Graduate Degree in any relevant discipline or equivalent vocational experience in Transport / Logistics service support
• Excel skills
• Clear communication skills to ensure clear and candid information
• Strong management skills ensuring efficient use of resources
• Computer Literacy to effectively operate and manipulate online management systems
• Faultless administration skills ensuring accurate and efficient procedures

The Company reserves the right to withdraw from the recruitment process at any time, at its sole discretion. The sharing of any aptitude test, assessment, or invitation to an interview does not constitute an offer of employment or guarantee any future employment with the Company. Candidates acknowledge that progression through any stage of the recruitment process does not imply or ensure an eventual offer of employment.