Daley Recruitment are seeking a Transport Planner for a Builder merchants based in new Southgate for an permanent position.
Your role as a transport planner will be to assist with daily planning of the fleet within the transport department, focusing on route planning and delivering an excellent service to customers with a fleet of up to 20 vehicles.
Transport Planner salary will be between £35 - £40k depending on experience
Role:
- Monday to Friday (Could be required for to work one in two or three Saturdays per month)
- Start time will be between 06:30 - 07:00 start
- 42.5 hours per week
Responsibilities:
- Being main point of contact for drivers through phone and text messages throughout the day
- Communicating between different departments in the depot such as Dispatch, sales and Compliance team
- Route planning whereby you will be using a route software and also real time changes when required
- Managing the order pickers team to make sure goods are prepared and ready to be delivered by the fleet vehicles
- Working along side the stock team to ensure products are ready to go for delivery and communicating this to the
customers for when what timing it will arrive.
- Organizing collections from the other depots when needed to
- Managing of fleet compliance to ensure all vehicles are complying
Requirements:
- At least 3 years of driver dispatch /Controlling / Transport planning experience
- Background in freight /Courier industry
- Experience of working within builder merchant would be beneficial
- Understanding of transport regulations and compliance is a must
- Strong IT skills
- Good geographical knowledge of London and home counties
- Strong interpersonal, written, verbal, organization and planning skills