JOB DESCRIPTION - TRANSPORT MANAGER

Position: Transport Manager
Department: Logistics & Transport
Reporting To: Operations / General Manager
Location: PATNAGARAH, BALANGIR

JOB PURPOSE

To manage the company’s transportation operations, ensuring protected, timely, cost-effective, and well-controlled vehicle movement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage daily vehicle planning, routing, and deployment.
- Monitor drivers, attendance, discipline, and trip performance.
- Conduct travel audits, trip audits, and fuel inspections.
- Monitor fuel consumption, mileage, vehicle utilization, and transportation costs.
- Ensure timely vehicle servicing, repairs, maintenance, and documentation.
- Monitor GPS tracking and vehicle movement to prevent unauthorized use and route deviations.
- Coordinate with drivers, transporters, dispatch, warehouse, and operations teams.
- Verify trip sheets, fuel records, transporter bills, and related documents.
- Handle vehicle breakdowns, delays, accidents, and emergency situations.
- Prepare daily/weekly transport and cost-control reports.




- Ensure compliance with vehicle safety, permits, insurance, fitness, and other statutory requirements.

KEY SKILLSSkill AreaRequired KnowledgeTravel AuditingTrip verification, route checking, distance and expense auditingFuel InspectionFuel consumption, mileage analysis, fuel theft/leakage controlDriver ManagementDriver allocation, attendance, discipline, performance monitoringVehicle MaintenancePreventive maintenance, servicing, repairs, breakdown managementVehicle ManagementVehicle utilization, route planning, documentation and cost controlGPS TrackingKnowledge of GPS-based vehicle tracking and route monitoringFleet SoftwareBasic knowledge of Wheels Eye / Fleet Management Software or similar systemsReportingMS Excel, MIS reports, trip and fuel reportsCommunicationStrong coordination and negotiation skillsProblem SolvingAbility to handle breakdowns, delays and operational issuesQUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE
- Graduate/

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