Transport Planner
We're proud to be Bakkavor
Salary: £30,000 - £34,000 per annum, dependant on experience
Benefits: 25 days annual leave, staff shop, life assurance
Location: Bakkavor, Spalding
Ways of Working : Site based
Days / Hours of work: 5 from 7, 06.00-18.00 (will require flexibility)
Contract Type: Permanent
Why join us?
We're proud to offer you a career with a global leader in the fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards.
About the role.
This is a fantastic opportunity within a brand new department, and will be based at our Bakkavor Spalding site, which employs over 1,470 people across 3 manufacturing facilities & 1 Distribution Centre. We specialise in making hand crafted sandwich wraps, salads, dips, soups & sauces and mayonnaise.
The successful candidate will report into the Transport Supervisor and supervise the cost-effective delivery of transport plans ensuring SLA's and KPI's are achieved whilst complying with legislation, health and safety and customer service.
Role Accountabilities: Using Transport systems accurately route plan and schedule vehicles in order to meet pre-agreed times into collection and delivery sites including maintenance workshops in line with the planned maintenance schedule. Actively seek out backloads so there is no empty running.
Provides instruction, support, and guidance to drivers and agency workers as required, before and during their shift.
Assign drivers to allocated runs using the drivers rota spreadsheet.
Brief and debrief drivers prior to despatch and following return to site, ensure driver cards are downloaded and tachographs are analysed and infringements are signed passed to compliance administrator. Ensure POD's are captured and checked noting any discrepancies and passed to the Transport administrator for filing. Input data into the relevant transport spreadsheets.
Record defects and action as necessary in line with the procedures to keep the fleet compliant, liaising with Compliance administrator and the Transport operations Supervisor. Conduct call outs for breakdowns to maintenance providers as and when required.
Record accidents and incidents as and when required at the time of the accident or incident, save data relating to the accident/incident and communicate to senior members of the team.
Effectively track drivers using the relevant systems ensuring communication regarding delays/issues and any unauthorised routes/delays with drivers are escalated
Send communication regarding in and out times of deliveries and collections to the relevant customers ensuring the customers are notified of any issues in advance.
Complete a daily handover for the following shift noting any issues or any information which will need to be handed over.
About you: Experience of working within a busy transport office
IT literate with experience of using Microsoft packages and transport systems
Excellent attention to detail and communication skills
Able to work as part of a team and independently
Self-starter with the ability to work using their own initiative
What you'll receive.
As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.
You'll enjoy: Life Assurance (1 x salary)
25 days holiday
Staff Shop
Stakeholder Pension Scheme
MyBargains Discount Platform
Personal Accident Insurance
Free Independent Mortgage Advice
Employee Assistance Programme
A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
Discounted tutoring for children
Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
Private Medical Insurance (after 5 years service)
Free Car parking
Proud to be Bakkavor.
We're proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We're proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose. We're driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!
Find out more and apply.
Bakkavor
We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,000 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 3,000 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
Category: Planning
Location:
Spalding, GB, PE11 2BB
Date: 6 May 2025
Req ID: 24586
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