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An exciting new Network Planning Strategic Project Analyst opportunity at DX!

All About You

You will be friendly, hard-working and love the buzz of getting things done. We love team players and here at DX we are committed to providing our people the technical and personal skills to progress their careers.

About us

We are a leading independent parcel, mail and logistics services company operating throughout the UK and Ireland delivering the important things in life. DX Freight provides next-day or scheduled delivery services for parcels and freight, as well as comprehensive logistics solutions, including warehouse management and the operation of customer-liveried vehicles. Our brand is what we do every day and our values set the tone for how we want our colleagues to go about their business of delivering the Delivered Exactly promise.

What will it feel like to be part of our team?

At DX, we know our people are our foundation of success. We are passionate about you developing your career with us; if you want to progress your career, DX will provide the training and the opportunities! Whatever you choose, you will work with passionate and supportive people who are focused on meeting the DX Delivered Exactly promise.

Role summary:

As DX grow the business and develop new services, we aim to maximise the combined value of our Divisions and build a flexible operating model which supports interoperability to efficiently offer the best possible service to our customers while ensuring control and consistency and minimising overall cost.

Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, Network Planning sets the direction for network operations including operating footprint, assets, routing, systems, automation, planning, tracking and reporting.

Within this small team, the Strategic Project Analyst has a key role, leading individual pieces of analysis and developing tools to answer key business questions, inform directional decisions and support strategic planning and implementation. This includes data collection and high-level modelling of operations cost and capacity to evaluate strategic options and support network planning, as well as detailed modelling and tool development to support local planning and implementation.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver specific pieces of analysis as directed by the Network Planning Director
• Document elements of the current operating model and proposed options
• Collect and validate high-level and detailed cost and operational data
• Conduct quantitative analysis to compare strategic options
• Build tools to support network planning
• Engage with relevant stakeholders to validate model conclusions and ensure any recommendations are realistic
• Provide analytical support to localised trials to test, prove and refine recommendations
• Liaise with IT to ensure alignment of systems requirements
• Maintain relevant benchmarks and best practices to guide and inform future design projects
• Contribute to blue-sky thinking and idea generation and prioritisation
• Contribute to blue-sky thinking and idea generation and prioritisation

Knowledge, Skills and experience

Must Have

• Highly numerate with strong analytical skills. Must be able to build excel models to evaluate financial and operational impact of options
• Experienced in data collection and analysis.
• Familiar with end-to-end logistics processes and cost, capacity and productivity drivers, including Collection and Delivery, Transport and Under-the-roof activities
• Strong communication skills, able to focus on key messages and explain complex concepts in an understandable way
• Familiarity with operational reporting metrics and dashboards

Nice to have

• Experience in building business cases for operational improvements and investment cases

Personal Specification

• Objective, analytical and data-driven
• Self-starter, motivated and driven to make meaningful improvements
• Creative, innovative, inquisitive and challenging
• Collaborative, able to engage with operational staff and other stakeholders to understand challenges, develop ideas and test possible solutions
• Thorough, diligent, honest and open
• Structured and able to break down complex deliverables into manageable steps
• Comfortable with ambiguity, able to use scenario analysis and estimates when reliable data is not available 
• Clear communicator, willing to challenge the status quo and equally happy to receive challenge and feedback

Benefits:

• Competitive Rates of Pay
• Holidays: 25 days increasing with length of service + bank holidays
• Long Service Recognition scheme
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity
• Enhanced Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance programme including 24/7 Virtual GP
• DX Discounts Portal
• Excellent opportunities for career progression and more!!

We look forward to hearing from you!

An exciting new Network Planning Project Engineer opportunity at DX!

All About You

You will be friendly, hard-working and love the buzz of getting things done. We love team players and here at DX we are committed to providing our people the technical and personal skills to progress their careers.

About us

We are a leading independent parcel, mail and logistics services company operating throughout the UK and Ireland delivering the important things in life. DX Freight provides next-day or scheduled delivery services for parcels and freight, as well as comprehensive logistics solutions, including warehouse management and the operation of customer-liveried vehicles. Our brand is what we do every day and our values set the tone for how we want our colleagues to go about their business of delivering the Delivered Exactly promise.

What will it feel like to be part of our team?

At DX, we know our people are our foundation of success. We are passionate about you developing your career with us; if you want to progress your career, DX will provide the training and the opportunities! Whatever you choose, you will work with passionate and supportive people who are focused on meeting the DX Delivered Exactly promise.

Role summary:

As DX grow the business and develop new services, we aim to maximise the combined value of our Divisions and build a flexible operating model which supports interoperability to efficiently offer the best possible service to our customers while ensuring control and consistency and minimising overall cost.

Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, Network Planning sets the direction for network operations including operating footprint, assets, routing, systems, automation, planning, tracking and reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver specific design projects, trials and pieces of analysis as directed by the Network Planning Director
• Run localised trials to test, prove and refine concepts and designs
• Document elements of the current operating model and proposed options
• Collect and validate high-level and detailed cost and operational data
• Conduct quantitative analysis to compare options
• Engage with relevant stakeholders to support balanced qualitative assessment of options and ensure any recommendations are realistic
• Liaise with IT to ensure alignment of systems requirements
• Prepare, document and present recommendations and implementation plans
• Maintain relevant benchmarks and best practices to guide and inform future design projects
• Contribute to blue-sky thinking and idea generation and prioritisation

Knowledge, Skills and experience

Must Have

• Numerate with strong analytical skills. Must be able to build basic excel models to evaluate financial and operational impact of options
• Familiar with end-to-end logistics processes and cost, capacity and productivity drivers, including Collection and Delivery, Transport and Under-the-roof activities
• Experience in managing operational trials and measuring operational impact
• Strong communication skills, able to focus on key messages and explain complex concepts in an understandable way
• Familiarity with operational reporting metrics and dashboards

Nice to have

• Experience in operations research, time and motion, layout design and operational process design
• Experience in building business cases for operational improvements and investment cases

Personal Specification

• Objective, analytical and data-driven
• Self-starter, motivated and driven to make meaningful improvements
• Creative, innovative, inquisitive and challenging
• Collaborative, able to engage with operational staff and other stakeholders to understand challenges, develop ideas and test possible solutions
• Thorough, diligent, honest and open
• Structured and able to break down complex deliverables into manageable steps
• Comfortable with ambiguity, able to use scenario analysis and estimates when reliable data is not available 
• Clear communicator, willing to challenge the status quo and equally happy to receive challenge and feedback

Benefits:

• Competitive Rates of Pay
• Holidays: 25 days increasing with length of service + bank holidays
• Long Service Recognition scheme
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity
• Enhanced Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance programme including 24/7 Virtual GP
• DX Discounts Portal
• Excellent opportunities for career progression and more!!

We look forward to hearing from you!

An exciting new Warehouse Operative opportunity at DX! 

 *** This is a Nightshift vacancy***

About Us

DX are a market leading provider of a wide range of delivery services, including parcel freight, secure, courier and logistics services.

We provide a wide range of specialist delivery services to both business and residential addresses across the UK and Ireland. We have three divisions, DX Freight, DX Express and DX Logistics. Our approach is straight-forward and no-nonsense. Our goal is to Deliver Exactly to our customers’ requirements. Key to what we do at DX is our people and we are incredibly proud of the dedicated team we have built.

At DX, we are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for all irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, sexual orientation, age or socio-economic background.

Benefits:

At DX, our people are the foundation of our success. We reward our employees by providing different benefits at various stages of your employment with us, the most recent benefit we have added is Company Healthcare, which you become eligible for after 6 months of continuous service. This is a company paid for scheme at Level 1 allowing you to claim back for dental care and optician fees amongst other things.  This is just one of the benefits that come with working at DX, the others are listed below:

• Competitive Rates of Pay
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity
• Holidays: 20 days increasing with length of service + bank holidays
• Long Service Recognition scheme
• Company Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance programme including 24/7 Virtual GP
• DX Discounts Portal
• Excellent opportunities for career progression

Role summary:

DX Warehouse Operatives are responsible to ensure the safe and efficient unloading and loading of freight from vehicles into, and from the site. They will also support the delivery operation to ensure the correct freight is loaded to complete the delivery routes.

Key responsibilities:

• Represent DX in a professional manner at all times
• Follow all aspects of DX Manual Handling and safe working policies, including the correct use of all PPE
• Observe and adhere to all DX procedures and policies at all times
• Handle all freight with care and attention
• Access and egress vehicles using the correct means
• Use the correct equipment and methods for handling and moving all freight
• Ensure all deliveries are loaded safely prior to leaving the site
• Report all damages immediately to your line manager
• Ensure all freight being loaded or unloaded matches relevant paperwork / scanner information
• Ensure that customers freight is transported, stored safely and treated with respect
• Ensure the security of freight and company assets by reporting any suspicious activity to your line manager or the security team
• Ensure the warehouse is kept tidy and H&S issues are reported immediately

We look forward to hearing from you!

An exciting new Supervisor opportunity at DX!

 *** This is a Night shift vacancy***

All about you

You will be friendly, hard-working and love the buzz of getting things done. We love team players and here at DX we are committed to providing our people the technical and personal skills to progress their careers.

About us

We are a leading independent parcel, mail and logistics services company operating throughout the UK and Ireland delivering the important things in life. DX Freight provides next-day or scheduled delivery services for parcels and freight, as well as comprehensive logistics solutions, including warehouse management and the operation of customer-liveried vehicles. Our brand is what we do every day and our values set the tone for how we want our colleagues to go about their business of delivering the Delivered Exactly promise.

What will it feel like to be part of our team?

At DX, we know our people are our foundation of success. We'll give you all the responsibility you need to develop yourself as an adaptable leader; with plenty of challenges to keep your career growing. If you want to develop your career, DX will provide the training and the opportunities! In addition, you will work with passionate and supportive people who are focused on meeting the DX Delivered Exactly promise.

Role summary:

To supervise the day to day operations on site including people management, warehousing, traffic and admin operations. To deputise for the Contract / Operations Manager where required. Supervise all aspects of the contracts service centre ensuring the achievement of the contracts KPI’s as set out by both company and the customer. To ensure that all site operations are completed escalating issues where necessary.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and co-ordinate the incoming goods, storage and dispatch of items in a timely and efficient manner to achieve your team objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs),
• To ensure all warehousing activities are undertaken in line with the Operations Manual and service centre working instructions as applicable.
• Ensure efficient planning of resource to ensure the operation is undertaken in the most cost effective and efficient manner.
• To ensure all vehicles are loaded and unloaded safely and correctly and within specified time limits
• To ensure warehouse operatives complete loading and unloading documentation on time and in full.
• Ensure effective, safe, accurate and timely stock management to include space allocation, stock transfer and dealing with non-confirming product.
• Responsible for ensuring that the quality of the product and service within the Warehouse is maintained at the highest possible standards for the customer.

Essential criteria for this role

• Previous experience in the logistics or distribution industry

Additional information on this role

If you have previous experience of managing teams in fast-paced mail/distribution environments and have the ambition to develop your leadership skills, then we would love to hear from you.

Benefits:

• Competitive Rates of Pay
• Company Funded Health Cash Plan
• Holidays: 20 days increasing with length of service + bank holidays
• Long Service Recognition scheme
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity
• Company Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance programme including 24/7 Virtual GP
• DX Discounts Portal
• Excellent opportunities for career progression and more!!

We look forward to hearing from you!