We are currently supporting a Leighton Buzzard based company with the recruitment for a Transport Planner. Our client are the market leaders in their sector, and they are recruiting for this role due to company expansion and growth.
Please note, this role is FULLY office based, with NO remote working. All candidates MUST have previous experience within transport planning based role.
For successful applicants, a basic disclosure criminal record check will be completed, as per our clients recruitment process.
Working Hours: 09:00am - 18:00pm (week 1), and then 13:00om - 22:00pm (week 2), rotating each week.
Duties:
* As the Transport Planner, you will take responsibility for the daily scheduling of the dynamic delivery routes using a transport planning system.
* In addition to this you will allocate the driver/vehicle resource for the following day, book whole sale orders and other designated orders, produce pallet movements, while ensuring you communicate to the operations team.
* You will be the first point of contact for any email or telephone enquiries, manage and book any "out of area" consignments, review the previous days performance, while hi-lighting and proposing changes.
* Any other related administrative tasks as and when required.
Key responsibilities:
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