CURRICULUM VITAE

Danny Chalmers
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth – 13th March 1967
Place of Birth – London, United Kingdom
UK Address – 46 Dawson Close, Plumstead, SE18 7LP
Telephone – Mobile: 07463 920933
Marital status – Partner
E-mail – danchalmers7.dc@gmail.com

Career Summary

I have spent the last 22 years involved in transport and transport operations ranging from driver to Transport Manager. I have some experience in costing budgeting and finance, and recently have been involved in quotations for the transportation side of a road construction company. I also have experience in gaining FORS Bronze and Silver awards through auditing and processes.

KEY SKILLS

• Flexible, enthusiastic and willing to learn
• Experience working to/within budgets
• Leadership skills
• Excellent organiser and communicator
• Full clean plus C1, D driving licence
• International CPC
• Good understanding of plant machinery
• FORS Bronze and Silver Award audits
• Operator OCRS and Driver DCRS
• Reliable and highly motivated
• Experience with recruitment and disciplinary matters
• Excellent team player
• Digital Tacho card
• CSCS card
• Driver CPC card
• Microsoft office competence

Career History

January 2016 to present
Employed as a transport manager for a welfare solutions supplier.
• My main duties are the effective and continuous control of the operator licence.
• FORS Compliance- Currently Silver and I am a FORS practitioner.
• Insurance control including driver cover and accident/incident reporting.
• Responsibility for 26 vehicles of mixed fleet, hgv and vans, including maintenance and repair by our in-house workshop
• Roadworthiness of vehicles
• Tachograph and driver CPC compliance
• Driver licence checks ( 6 monthly)
• Overall responsibility for 26 drivers and 2 workshop fitters.
• Route planning for deliveries/collections and servicing of welfare facilities.
• Customer liaison.

May 2015 to January 2016
Self employed as a transport manager, responsible for compliance on a part time basis. Offering my services as a transport consultant helping start up owner drivers and small companies without the facility to employ a full time manager.
• Managing operator licence responsibility for clients.
• Continuous and effective control of the operator licence
• Driver training including DCPC
• Overseeing scheduled vehicle maintenance and repairs
• Operator Licence compliance and OCRS
• Tachograph downloads and reporting systems and DCRS including infringement control
• Currently working on a temporary contract which is due to expire.

March 2014 to – May 2015
Elm Surfacing Ltd
Employed as the Plant and Transport manager with sole responsibility for the transport function and maintenance and repairs of all large plant in a road surfacing and reinstatement company.
• Responsibility for servicing and repair of 20 reinstating vehicles
• Legal compliance of company vehicles that run under o licence
• KPI’s related to the transport function
• Liaise with other unit managers to ensure the smooth running of all departments
• FORS and Cross rail compliance
• 6 weekly safety inspection schedule is kept up to date
• Taxing and testing of vehicles as per the schedule
• Overall responsibility for service, maintenance and timely repair of all plant including cold milling machines and asphalt pavers
• Routing and scheduling of heavy plant/machinery deliveries and replacements
• Driver training and Driver-CPC
• Responsibility for the workshop and four associated vehicle and plant fitters.

June 2013 to March 2014
Various agency positions including 7.5T driver, courier driver and office administrator

June 2011 to June 2013
DeAngelo Brothers UK LTD (redundancy)
Sole responsibility for the transport function. Managing 5 members of staff, 70 plus trucks, 25 vans and 14 company cars.
Main duties and responsibilities as follows:
• Responsibility for servicing and repair of 70 plus specialist vehicles
• Legal compliance of company vehicles that run under o licence
• Capital Expenditure including sourcing of specialist engineering plant(road construction vehicles)
• KPI’s related to the transport function
• Liaise with other unit managers to ensure the smooth running of all departments
• Regular travel through the UK to various depots to ensure all vehicles are kept serviceable and repaired in a timely manner
• 6 weekly safety inspection schedule is kept up to date
• Taxing and testing of vehicles as per the schedule

April 2009 to June 2011
Fujairah Bulk Shipping – Transport Manager (end of contract)
I relocated to the UAE after being made redundant from my previous employer in April 2009, which I had been looking to do for some time. I was working on a large land reclamation project moving a minimum of 70000MT of rock from a mountain and placing it in the sea in Fujairah on the eastern side and the project itself was completed in early 2011 6 months ahead of schedule.
Main duties and responsibilities were as follows:
• The management of 85 vehicles including rock boxes, flat bed trailers and low loaders, including the servicing and maintenance which is carried out in our fully equipped on site workshop.
• The management of 140 drivers on 2 shifts including disciplinary procedures. This included driver appraisals and training where needed.
• Compiling maintenance and diesel expenditure and cost/MT reports
• The overall responsibility for the delivery, usage and savings through efficiencies of diesel.
• Health and safety in relation to transport
• Regular visit to our quarry and 3rd party suppliers to ensure a satisfactory service is being provided by our road trucks.
• Regular liaison with the operational staff regarding targets to be achieved daily.
• Overall responsibility for the continual operation of five weighbridges and associated staff.

June 2006 to April 2009
Lafarge Aggregates Ltd- Transport Supervisor. (redundant)
I started working for the company as a Ready-mix concrete Shipper. Duties were organising day to day deliveries of Ready-mix. This encompassed taking orders from customers and organising the fleet of trucks to ensure all of the day’s deliveries were met and on time.
After 2 years I was promoted to Transport Supervisor. I was responsible for a fleet of 90 sub contract and 4 company fleet vehicles and drivers.
This includes dealing with:
• health and safety
• regular vehicle audits
• quarry visits
• customer site visits
• haulier disputes
• disciplinary and grievance procedures
• financial issues between hauliers and the company
• serving notice to hauliers when not required or up to company standards
• Ensuring working time directives and EU driving hours/tachograph rules were adhered to
• Weekly downloads of digital tacho machines for the purpose of data analysis.
• Regular liaison with 3rd party transport companies and ensuring they operated to our standards.

I acted as a liaison role between hauliers and the central distribution office. This involved keeping up with current legislation affecting the operation of large goods vehicles and attending haulier meetings every 3 months and producing haulier bulletins to disseminate information.

August 2005
Romag – Production Operative (moved to Lafarge)
General duties including running of vacuum laminator and flash tester in the process of manufacturing solar panels.

March 2005 to August 2005
Explorer Group – General Labourer (6 months temporary contract)
General Labourer in a caravan factory involved in the production of cabinets and doors.

May 2002 to March 2005
NWCP Group- Transport Manager (loss of contracts)
• Managing drivers ensuring their vehicles were maintained and that they used a professional approach to their work
• Ensuring staff compliance of EU/tacho rules and regulations and WTD
• Liaising with customers with regard to delivery and collections, ensuring total customer satisfaction
• Quotations and pricing in line with same day and overnight deliveries.
• Ensuring drivers had all deliveries and collections
• Updating computer system of all transactions
• Fleet service and maintenance schedules

September 2000 to May 2002
City Air Express – Operations Supervisor (moved on to NWCP)
• Supervising drivers, ensuring their vehicles were maintained and that they used a professional approach to their work
• Liaising with customers with regard to delivery and collections
• Arranging deliveries and collections national and international
• Updating computer system of all transactions

January 1996 to September 2000
Rapid Air Express – Courier Driver
Progressed from driver to operations, arranging deliveries and collections worldwide

April 1994 to January 1996
Tarmac Topmix – Concrete Technician
Testing concrete cubes and aggregates (lab based). Visits to sites to obtain concrete samples

May 1988 to April 1994
Various bus/coach companies – Driver

June 1983 to May 1988
Chelsea Metals – Machine Operator
Crane driver

Education

1978 to 1983
Eaglesfield Secondary School, London
• O Level Maths – Grade A
• O Level English – Grade B
• O Level Biology – Grade C
• CSE Computer studies – Grade 1
• CSE Motor Vehicle Maintenance – Grade 1
• CSE Physics – Grade 1

Qualifications

Certificate of Professional Competence in International Road Haulage. CSCS green card

Reference

Richard Flaherty – 07497 485052