LGV Training Supervisor
Biffa · Leicester
Location: Leicester Depot
Help us drive safer, smarter and better!
The Role
As a Training Supervisor, you’ll play a key role in delivering high-quality training, onboarding and operational coaching across our depots. You’ll help new starters settle into their roles, support existing colleagues in developing their skills and promote a positive safety culture throughout our business.
Working closely with depot teams and Business Managers, you’ll ensure colleagues have the knowledge, confidence and practical skills needed to carry out their roles safely, efficiently and in line with Biffa’s policies and relevant legislation.
What will you be doing?
- Delivering onboarding and induction: Ensuring new starters receive a comprehensive introduction to Biffa, our values, safety standards and operational procedures.
- Developing driver skills: Coaching and mentoring drivers to improve their driving standards, road safety awareness and overall performance.
- Providing practical training: Delivering depot-based training across a range of vehicles and operational activities, including vehicle defect checks, wheel torquing, manual handling, in-cab PDAs, tachographs, logbooks and driver debriefs.
- Promoting a strong safety culture: Carrying out vehicle gate checks, crew monitoring and toolbox talks to identify risks, reinforce safe working practices and encourage positive behaviours.
- Supporting operational compliance: Helping depots meet vehicle gate check, crew monitoring and route risk assessment targets, while ensuring colleagues understand the importance of complying with Operator Licence requirements.
- Monitoring performance: Assessing colleagues' skills and competencies, identifying areas for improvement and working with Business Managers to address training needs.
- Maintaining accurate records: Ensuring training documentation and assessment records are completed, uploaded and maintained in line with company procedures.
- Identifying and reporting risks: Highlighting potential hazards, unsafe working practices and opportunities to improve risk assessments and safe systems of work.
- Supporting recruitment: Assisting with interviews and pre-driving assessments when required.
You'll also work closely with depot teams to ensure our vehicles are maintained in a clean and tidy condition and that any significant issues or concerns are reported promptly.
What are we looking for?
We're looking for someone who combines excellent driving skills with a genuine passion for training, coaching and developing others.
Essential requirements:
- A valid LGV Category C (Class 2) driving licence.
- Up-to-date Driver CPC.
- Excellent driving ability and a strong understanding of road safety.
- Working knowledge of transport legislation and the regulations governing drivers and mobile workers.
- Understanding of the demands of working in a fast-paced, time-critical operational environment.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to coach, influence and engage colleagues at all levels.
- Good IT skills, including confidence using business systems and Microsoft Office.
- Excellent organisation and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
- A positive, proactive approach to health and safety, with the confidence to challenge unsafe behaviours appropriately.
- Flexibility to travel across the region, work some unsociable hours and occasionally stay away overnight.
Why Biffa?
At Biffa, you'll be part of a team that makes a real difference to the communities we serve every day.
We believe in creating an environment where colleagues can develop, share their knowledge and achieve their potential. As a Training Supervisor, you'll have the opportunity to influence driving standards, improve safety and support the development of colleagues across our operations.
Our culture is built around our values of #TFR:
- Teamwork – Working together for each other.
- Fairness – Treating and being treated equally.
- Respect – Appreciating and valuing each other for who we are and what we do.
Dedicated to diversity
At Biffa, inclusion is at the heart of our culture. We believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds help us build stronger teams and deliver better outcomes for our colleagues, customers and communities.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to providing an inclusive working environment where everyone can thrive.
Ready to make a difference?
If you're passionate about road safety, enjoy helping others develop and want to play a key role in building safer, more effective operational teams, we'd love to hear from you!
Requirements
It would be great if you also have:
- A health and safety qualification (Desirable)
- A Manager CPC qualification (Desirable)
- Experience delivering training or coaching employees.
- Previous supervisory or management experience.
- Driving experience within the waste or wider service industry (Desirable)
- Knowledge of telematics, driver monitoring systems and relevant environmental and health and safety legislation.
- Good geographical knowledge of the region you'll be supporting.