Transport Planner

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom GMP Recruitment Ltd Full time

GMP Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of our client located in Birmingham, for a detail orientated and motivated Transport Planner to join their team on a full time, permanent contract. We are looking for an individual who can demonstrate previous **experience in fleet management for a large number of vehicles, including route planning and deliveries.**

We have two positions working Monday - Friday with the option of:
Morning: 07:00am - 15:30pm or 09:00am - 17:30pm as suits.
Afternoon: 12:00pm - 20:30pm or 13:30pm - 22:00pm as suits.

Salary is £30,000.

As a Transport Planner working your main duties would be to amend and manage the route plans for approximately 30 vehicles according to any plan or order changes that may come about.

This role is also responsible for the driver debrief desk for drivers returning from their daily routes.

**To be considered for this position you must demonstrate previous transport planning experience, strong geographical knowledge of the UK and be familiar with automated transport routing systems, as well as manual process planning.**

Transport Planner main duties:

- Planning utilisation and routing for all vehicles, ensuring all on time collections and deliveries
- Maximise vehicle/driver utilisation and efficiency
- Ability to prioritise and change routes as and when required
- Processing collections and deliveries on an internal system
- Compliance with all ‘O’ licence requirements and all relevant legislation and best practice
- Manage and control of picked orders into Ireland and 3rd networks.
- Other related relevant operational actively as required
- Development, monitoring and reporting on KPIs related to service delivery and customer satisfaction.
- Effective daily Management of vehicle and driver resource, including holiday and absence cover.
- Manage customer escalations and requests to ensure efficient resolution by collaborating with operational departments.
- Review service delivery failures and produce incident reports when required.
- Develop and maintain effective driver relations, through detailed pre and post driver debriefs
- Ensure the department’s compliance requirements for H&S.

Transport Planner required skills and experience:

- Strong geographical knowledge of the UK
- Must be familiar with automated transport routing systems, as well as manual process planning
- Previous transport planning experience
- Strong IT skills
- Ability to work under pressure in busy, fast paced environment
- Team player with a hands on approach
- Proactive approach to problem solving
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to communicate well with people at all levels within the Organisation
- Attention to detail and excellent organisation skills
- Flexible and positive in their approach
- Experience within the Logistics sector.

GMP Recruitment are recruiting for this role on behalf of their client and are acting as an Employment Agency.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Birmingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: KM210



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