Planners, Transport Management & related
We are delighted to assist a rapidly growing medium sized 3PL to find an experienced Transport Planner for their site in West Yorkshire.
Title: Transport Planner
Region: Bradford
Salary: £50k + Benefits + Prospects
Hours: 50hr week. Standard hours of work are 7.30 am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday + Saturdays on a rota / on call basis
Role Summary:
* Plan and oversee up to 50 vehicles on multidrop and full load road haulage. Route planning is UK wide.
* Work to deadlines in fast-paced, pressurised situations.
* There will be a requirement for a degree of out of hours work.
* Communicate with customers regularly.
* Work closely with the existing team to ensure key operational objectives are achieved through maintaining a high standard of service to our customers.
* Working closely with drivers, including agency drivers and subcontracted routes.
* Ensuring on time departure and exception reporting.
* Overseeing traffic planners to ensure achieving financial targets.
* Dealing with breakdowns, traffic delays, and accidents & all related admin.
* Ensuring adherence to the Operator's License and driver's hours legislation.
* Ensuring correct paperwork (including disclaimers and driving license checks) and briefings are completed with agency drivers.
* Driving CI and people development.
* A proven, hands-on Transport planner who has managed routes across the UK.
* Will have planned routes for fast moving operations ideally combining multi-drop, groupage & full load single drops.
* Must be flexible on working on an on-call basis if needed on a Saturday.
* Excellent communication skills with drivers, planners, and depots.
* Must have had customer relationship experience.
* Computer literate including up to date transport planning tools.
* Drivers or Managers CPC if possible.
This is a fantastic opportunity – we look forward to your application.
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