Transport Planner - Warrington, United Kingdom - Kinaxia Logistics
Description
Mark Thompson Transport are recruiting a Transport Planner to join their team at their site in Warrington.The role of the Transport Planner will be to plan and execute collection and delivery schedules via the most cost-efficient means, in line with the business objectives, customer service levels and current legislative requirements.
- Monday
- Friday
- 50 hours per week
- 2832k dependent on experience
- Additional benefits:
- Life Assurance
- Company Pension Scheme
- Opportunity for training and development
- Full Uniform and PPE
- Onsite Parking
- Cycle to work scheme
- Loyalty Awards (recognises employees with 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 years' service)
- Employee benefits and discounts across a range of top brands (including shopping, travel, motoring and days out)
About the job:
- Make full use of all IT systems, TMS and customer portals to ensure efficient fleet and employee deployment.
- Fully utilise all vehicles to ensure accurate and appropriate allocation of drivers/vehicles/trailers/customer deliveries and backloads.
- Work closely with the Workshop to ensure vehicles and trailers are available to support the transport requirement, service scheduling is built into the plan and advise the operation in a timely manner when there are any risks to vehicle or trailer availability.
- Communicate and share plans to the transport team to deliver through efficiency and maintain customer service levels.
- Manage staffing levels, including agency staff to ensure sufficient staffing levels are always in place to meet and exceed the daily plan and to meet customer requirements.
- Communicate effectively with all customers and work with them to understand and resource their schedules. Also, to include but not limited to; effective handovers to the relevant individuals / departments, and key stakeholders for any operational delays to ensure a smooth and efficient service is being delivered.
- Control and plan operational deliveries for the following day and provide rates, quotes and process all customer bookings to meet customers' needs and expectations.
- Work as part of a team and participate in cross training initiatives to provide effective cover in a colleague's absence.
- Identify, communicate, and drive any continuous improvements to continually develop the operation of the business.
- Operate to a high standard of general housekeeping and work safely, complying with all health and safety regulations to maintain a clean, safe, and tidy working environment.
Your knowledge and experience:
- Working knowledge of the Highway Code, EU tachograph requirements, Working Time Regulations, Road Transport Regulations
- Working knowledge of transport operation systems
- Geographical knowledge
- Health and Safety regulations
- Relevant transport and planning experience
- Analysing and solving logistic problems
- Transport operation systems
- Logistics qualification would be desirable
- _Talented_
- _Attentive_
- _Reliable_
Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent
Salary:
£28,000.00-£32,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
Schedule:
- Monday
Work Location:
In person
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