Transport Planner

Description

• Briefing & De-Briefing drivers
• Ensuring any transport issues arising from customers & drivers are resolved
• Responsible for route efficiency. Lead review process & compliance to optimise van/LGV schedules and 3PL usage
• 100% POD and POC compliance to ensure revenue collection
• The role will cover resources and routes in multiple depots with vehicles and people
• Working pro-actively to reduce missed time-slots & late deliveries
• Responsible for delivering the Operational Performance to the agreed KPI targets

Requirements

• Transport planning in a similar or transferable environment such as a Transport office managing multiple locations, drivers and vehicles with responsibility for routing and route optimisation, Transport compliance and O licence regulations. Someone who has or is working towards Transport Manager CPC would be ideal
• A good understanding of how to be assertive and to react appropriately depending on the circumstances
• On Time delivery performance
• A drive to be proactive. This role requires forward planning and being able to react and thinking quickly
• Excellent organisation skills and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
• Excellent geographical knowledge of UK road network
• IT skills, a good level of technical proficiency is preferred in both transport and workforce management related systems such as Paragon, Job Watch (Big Change) or Rotec and general Microsoft applications such as Excel or Access, Business Objects
• Resilience. This is about the ability to stay calm when under pressure and continue to make decisions and solve problems on the go.

Benefits

• Vehicle productivity in the form of jobs per vehicle (JPV) KPI
• Vehicle uptime by reducing vehicle off road (VOR) time

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance