Transport Planner

Location: Duxford, Cambridge

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Huntsman has an opportunity for a Transport Planner with a strong background in chemical logistics and hazardous materials shipping. As a Transport Planner you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient movement of our chemical products worldwide. Working within our Duxford Logistics Team, you’ll be responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimising shipments, ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining compliance with hazardous goods regulations.

Your expertise in transport planning, route optimisation, and regulatory compliance will help drive cost-effective and efficient transport solutions. You’ll also collaborate closely with customer service, warehouse, and freight forwarders to ensure an exceptional service for our customers.

Role Responsibilities

• Coordinating and scheduling shipments of chemical products to customers, warehouses, and production sites.
• Ensuring timely and cost-effective transport while meeting all regulatory requirements.
• Monitoring and maintaining compliance with shipping laws and safety standards, including ADR, Globally Harmonised Systems (GHS), and REACH.
• Managing shipping documentation, including safety data sheets (SDS), customs paperwork, and transport labels.
• Optimising transport routes and modes (road, rail, sea, and air) to balance cost, speed, and safety.
• Building strong relationships with logistics providers and internal stakeholders to ensure smooth operations.
• Continuously identifying improvements in logistics processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
• Tracking shipments and resolving any transport issues proactively.

Experience And Competencies

We are looking for experienced candidates with excellent communication skills and a solution-focused approach.

• Experience: Previous experience in logistics, or shipping, ideally in the chemical or hazardous materials industries.
• Knowledge: Familiarity with hazardous materials shipping regulations, safety standards, and chemical handling practices.
• IT Skills: Knowledge of SAP. Computer literacy with high proficiency in MS Office.
• Attention to Detail: Strong ability to ensure compliance with strict shipping protocols and to manage detailed records.
• Organisational Skills: Strong ability to plan, coordinate, and prioritise tasks in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for interacting with internal teams, vendors, and customers.
• Problem Solving: Ability to troubleshoot shipping issues and provide efficient solutions.

What We Offer

• Financial Reward: Competitive salary, pension scheme, a guaranteed annual payment, non-contractual Incentive Compensation Scheme, free onsite parking.
• Health and Wellbeing: Private health insurance & employee assistance programmes offering access to online GP, mental health support and physiotherapy, Cycle to work scheme, free fruit.
• Family and Caregiving: Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity and adoption and shared parental leave.
• Training: Ongoing training, sitewide learning days, unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses.

If you would like to join an innovative, collaborative, and multicultural team, please apply now. Your application will be forwarded to a Talent Acquisition Partner, who will strive to get back to you as soon as they can. We understand that applying for a new job is a big decision and we will work hard to keep you updated and support you along the way.

At Huntsman, we pride ourselves on being a people-oriented organization. Our family-like atmosphere is cultivated by our diverse groups of team members around the world. We welcome the talent, experience and fresh ideas that employees at all stages of their careers, from interns to seasoned professionals, bring to Huntsman. In return, we offer you the opportunity to become an integral part of a dynamic, industry-leading company, where safety and ethics always come first.