Transport Planner Job Description The Transport Planner’s primary role is the efficient and effective planning, management, and reporting of the deliveries and services carried out daily by the Aggregates Division, including deliveries by third parties, and merchanting orders. Working closely with the Workshop, Transport Manager, Aggregates Division Sales team and the Admin and Accounts Division, the Transport Planner will ensure that all deliveries are made in the most efficient, cost effective and profitable manner by proactive workload management, also ensuring timely and accurate reporting on work carried out daily to facilitate efficient follow-on processes. The Transport Planner is the line manager to the HGV drivers and is a key part of ensuring compliance in relation to HGV operations. The activities undertaken by the Transport Planner as well as the records kept are vital to ensuring proper sales invoicing and purchase control. In summary responsibilities include: Planning Stages: * Forward planning of daily activities, allocation of known requirements and orders to wagons including population of Daily Work Sheet as early as possible. * Liaise with and assist the Workshop in relation to planned vehicle maintenance, servicing, MOTs etc in addition to assisting and working around unplanned maintenance and repairs. * Liaison with the Admin & Accounts team and manage driver availability, absence and holidays. Daily Workload ...