Transport Planner

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 a 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 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.

Ideal candidate

• 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.