We are currently recruiting an experienced Senior Transport Planner to join our team. This is a full-time position and is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established and leading transport company.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the scheduling and monitoring of vehicle (HGV) road deliveries within agreed delivery times and to exacting customer requirements and deadlines. It includes planning routes within the UK, allocating the correct equipment and drivers for the loads, ensuring compliance with regulations, monitoring drivers, their working hours and helping to ensure the operation runs efficiently at all times.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Oversee the day-to-day transport planning operations ensuring the optimal utilisation of the businesses fleet of 90 HGV tractor units and assorted trailers.
- Allocate loads to drivers including; routing, journey time, appropriate vehicles for load type, driver location and availability, customer requirements, load security, etc
- Ensure driver’s hours, working time directive regulations and all other relevant legislation are strictly adhered to.
- Responding to queries, calls and emails – both from drivers and customers. Keeping the transport team updated at all times.
- Plan and monitor collections and deliveries to agreed movement schedules and taking immediate corrective action if and when required.
- Ensure vehicles and trailers are presented to the workshop for service, MOT and defect rectification.
- Maintain all systems and processes and ensure all records are updated on a timely basis.
- Be a proactive contributor in a team of 20+ transport industry professionals.
- Help maintain high standards of fleet and operational compliance.
- Grow and develop the vehicle return load utilisation – back loads.
- Promote and champion excellent customer service for our varied customer base.
- Prepare management reports on various operational aspects of the business.
- Recruitment, training and performance management of team members.
- This role requires weekend and on-call work in line with the needs of the business. Weekend and on-call work will be shared between the planning team members. When working on-call you will be required to carry the on-call phone and deal with all queries that arise.
The ideal candidate will have:
- CPC – Transport Management Qualification preferred but not essential.
- Proven experience managing a large-scale transport operation ideally within FMCG and major food retailer environments.
- Experience in transport planning and leading transport planning teams is essential.
- Strong understanding of fleet and operational compliance.
- Work well under pressure to tight and exacting deadlines and can multitask.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Familiarity with managing budgets and liaising with subcontractors.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Excellent communication, IT and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to resolve customer issues and ensure KPIs are met.
- Possess a strong and detailed understanding of transport management systems.
- Ability to design and optimise shift patterns to fit the evolving profile of the business – while ensuring that the needs of the customer are always met.
This role will suit a candidate who wishes to progress their career in transport planning.
This is a full time permanent role – offering:
- A competitive salary – depending on experience.
- Company Pension.
- On site parking and canteen facilities.
- Career progression opportunities within JRT and The Nolan Group.
