Logistics Administrator

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Joining Biffa as a Logistics Administrator in Aylesbury means coordinating Reactive Services day to day, allocating vehicles to maximise route efficiency, upholding health and safety and environmental standards, debriefing drivers, and keeping admin current while supporting improvement initiatives. You’ll work with the Depot Manager on driver hours and help roll out new services. To apply well, tailor your CV to show prior logistics or services experience, frontline staff management, and multi-shift work; highlight route planning, postcode knowledge, safety and compliance, and systems proficiency. Quantify impact you’ve had, show collaboration with ops teams, and convey a genuine interest in Biffa’s waste-management mission and diversity values. Expect rotating shifts including Saturdays.

Join us in making an impact as a Logistics Administrator
Location: Aylesbury
Hours: Monday to Friday, rotational shifts of 8:00–17:00 and 9:00–18:00 (alternating weekly), with 1 in 4 Saturdays included.

A quick look at the role. 

The role holder will support the effective running of the day-to-day operations of the Reactive Services logistics team through the effective allocation of vehicles to ensure best in class service delivery, ensuring health & safety standards are maintained, and ensuring environmental and legislative compliance, support employee engagement, continuous improvement in productivity and quality of service provision. 

Your core responsibilities

• Allocate and manage daily routes to deliver top-class service.
• Maximise route efficiency and disposal use across the area.
• Debrief drivers daily to spot and resolve issues fast.
• Manage driver availability, compliance, and coverage.
• Keep admin up to date — calls, emails, and records.
• Assign jobs to the right vehicle types safely and legally.
• Oversee daily vehicle checks and availability.
• Work with the Depot Manager to monitor driver hours.
• Support drivers and ops staff throughout the day.
• Help roll out new services and initiatives.

This is more than just a desk job! You’ll also have the chance to get hands-on with employee engagement and improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Our essential requirements

• Experience of a position of similar responsibility in Services or Logistics industry 
• Health & Safety conscious  
• Good geographical knowledge E.g. Postcode areas.  
• Good transport / logistics knowledge 
• Good working knowledge of existing and impending environmental and health and safety legislation environment 
• Experience of dealing with first line operational staff 
• Experience in a labour intensive, multi-shift environment 
• Competent on computers and picking up new systems. 

Benefits

And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.

• Competitive salary.
• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Medical and dental scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Plus much more...

Biffa - Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,000+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.