Location: On site / Newport NP19, UK
Job Type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and Subsector: Supply Chain | Planning
Annual Fixed Salary: £30,000.00
Owens Group is a fast developing, multisite organisation, with a large diverse customer base, making this an exciting opportunity.
Owens Group is looking to recruit a Transport Planner.
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off nights – 6pm to 6am
Salary: £30,000.00
To take responsibility for the timely traffic planning of routes and scheduling delivery times to ensure that the customer receives a first class service in a cost effective way.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Carry out tasks largely unsupervised to cost and quality standards
- Plan ahead – tasks and resources. Liaise with internal/external customers to resolve problems.
- Collect, analyse and distribute information/data.
- Provide professional/specialist advice both internally and externally.
- Developing relationships with external customer.
- Specify and ensure levels of support service are in place.
- Prioritise and coordinate workloads
- Completion of tasks to time and quality standards
- No customer complaints; working to budgets.
- Successful working partnerships with customers, internal and external.
- Delivering the right advice in a timely manner; achieving respect of others about your competence.
- Practising safe working procedures.
- Specific key accountabilities.
- Working with customers/suppliers/drivers and other traffic desks, planning routes and scheduling delivery times to ensure the smooth running of the operation.
- Prioritising workload, route planning driver brief and de-brief.
- Liaise with other depots within the company.
- Driver communication and monitoring.
- Strong organisational skills for planning schedules, journeys and loads.
- Proactively work to reduce late deliveries and missed time slots.
- Ability to work flexibly and to make decisions quickly.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to deal with people at all levels.
- Maintain computerised system – Stirling. Have the skills to use Excel spreadsheets.
- A good understanding of transport regulations currently in force.
- Good geographical knowledge.
- Booking driver agency staff depending on workload.
- Must monitor compliance and work with drivers and compliance to eliminate infringements.
- Must ensure that all drivers are aware of SAFED, and be actively involved in improving SAFED achievements to goals.
- Must be an integral part of, and be responsible for employee health and safety.
- Ensure that vehicles and trailers are available in a timely manner to adhere to compliance and inspection requirements.
- Provide general support appropriate to the management when required.
Specific Qualifications / Job Training:
- Experience of working at a similar level.
- Job specific qualification preferred.
- Specific experience.
- Traffic management.
- Dealing with VOSA compliance.
- Problem solving / logical thinking.
- Working unsupervised, continually managing time and prioritising work to meet tight deadlines.
Specific Skills:
- Good communication skills, interaction at all levels internal and external.
- Geographical knowledge.
- Team player with a flexible ‘Can Do’ attitude.
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