Overview
Are you an experienced Transport Planner looking for your next permanent role? We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Transport Planner to join our team at our Snodland, Kent office. In this role, you’ll report directly to the Distribution Supervisor and play a key part in ensuring smooth communication with all stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for delivering timely updates on planned responses to programme changes, as well as managing daily and weekly schedules including Out of Hours operations.
Responsibilities
* Supporting fleet teams, transport planners, and weighbridge staff to maximise vehicle utilisation and minimise haulier queries
* Delivering excellent service and communication to internal and external customers
* Ensuring cost-effective distribution of Tarmac products
* Managing material service levels through detailed pre-planning and regular engagement with strategic customers
* Responding swiftly and efficiently to unplanned events impacting programme adherence or service delivery
* Creating transport programmes that enhance fleet utilisation and operational efficiency
* Building strong relationships with external customers to support the areas commercial strategy
* Communicating capacity plans and forward programmes clearly to all stakeholders
The role of Transport Planner is a Monday – Friday role with a rostered Saturday AM in rotation. We have core hours but start and finish times can be earlier or later around these to operate a team balance.
The Ideal Candidate
* Experience of health and safety procedures
* Ability to build working relationships with customers
* Ability to deal with stakeholders and customers of varying levels
* Experience in planning programmes of work
* Strong IT knowledge and experience
* Ability to constantly reprioritise and manage your own workload, along with supporting the wider team
* Exceptional communication skills both verbally and in electronic format
The role is based at our Snodland office in Kent and is commutable from Maidstone, Chatham, Rochester, Gillingham, Hempstead, Sevenoaks, Orpington, Swanley, Dartford, Bromley, Tonbridge, Gravesend, Rainham, Swanley, Sittingbourne and the surrounding areas.
Why us
At Tarmac, who you are matters. We want to get to know you. If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer. Tarmac is the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business. Our innovative products and solutions not only deliver the infrastructure needed to grow the UK economy today but also help to create a more sustainable built environment for the country’s long-term future.
Here at Tarmac, we are working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment and it’s important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.
Benefits
* Bonus scheme
* Enhanced holiday entitlement
* Contributory pension scheme
* Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
* Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice
* Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities including REACH (Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage), LGBTQ+, Parents & carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female voice and menopause
* Training and development opportunities
Interested? Please click apply to complete your application. Tarmac, a CRH company, is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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