Our client is a family run business which supplies warehousing facilities, transport and distribution covering the UK and Europe with various depots around the UK. Due to continued expansion and winning new business they require another Transport Planner to join their team. The ideal transport planner will have experience in groupage and have working experience of this. The role is daytime hours and will report into the transport manager. CPC license is not required.
This role requires the transport planner to:
1. Effectively plan multi-site transport whilst managing drivers hours legislation rules
2. Build customer relationships and communicate changes, amendments, and delivery details
3. Plan fleet, deliveries and use sub-contractors when necessary
4. Effective use of TMS daily to plan and log
5. Daily completion of traffic sheets, recording revenues against jobs and vehicles
6. Contact drivers each day to confirm load plan and update throughout the day to review if deviations from plan have occurred
7. Work with planning manager and transport planners to achieve the daily levels of revenue that are required
8. Make customer contact regularly to ensure service level requirements are satisfied