Transport Planner

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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