Transport Planner

4 months ago

Leicester, United Kingdom Flogas Britain Ltd Full time

**Distribution Co-ordinator - Outbound**

**Business Unit: Fleet/Logistics/MGS**

**Location: Leicester (Syston)**

**Contract Type: Permanent**

**Hours: 37.5**

**Salary: £25,000.00 - £30,000.00**

**Join Flogas Britain - Off-Grid Energy Leaders**

At Flogas, we're not just offering a job; we're offering a chance to be a key player in an organisation that's at the forefront of innovation and change. As our company continues to grow and expand its horizons, we need creative minds who can embrace evolution and lead with a fresh perspective. Your passion for sustainability aligns perfectly with our commitment to creating a more sustainable future.

**About the role**

Reporting into the Planning Manager, the distribution coordinator’s role is to design routes that a bulk tanker driver or Cylinder driver undertakes to deliver to both B2C and B2B customers, ensuring, that they are customer service driven, cost effective & realistic. The role involves liaising with Depot Managers regarding resource availability and the Fulfillment Team regarding real time driver management. The role will also involve interfacing with the forecasting team and ensuring that plans are taking account of future demand and are leveled effectively to maximize the vehicles and drivers available.

**What you will be doing**
- Creation of forward planned schedules based on understanding of customer demand
- Work closely with forecasting/capacity planning team to build future plans for growth and impacts of seasonality
- Engage with Outbound Logistics Manager to ensure plans are in line with business strategy
- Interface with Fulfilment Coordinator’s to ensure that transport planners are managing drivers effectively
- Ensure that business rules within the system allow for optimal route creation

**About You**
- Transport planning experience
- Route & Scheduling software knowledge
- Operational knowledge (desirable)
- Capacity planning (desirable)
- IT literate

**How we will reward you**
- Competitive starting salary
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Great annual leave package with opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
- Enhanced family friendly package
- Death in Service
- Contributory pension scheme
- Employee Volunteer Day’s to support the communities where you work and live
- Learning and development opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and talent
- Access to a fully funded eye test and flu jab
- Access and discounts on a range of health and wellbeing services i.e., health cash plan, discounted gym membership and our employee assistance platform
- Access to our very own benefits platform which provides discounts to over 900 retailers, including days out, holidays and retail stores

**Diversity, Inclusion, and Flexibility**:
As an inclusive employer, we recognise the importance of achieving the right work-life balance that works for you. Our people work differently depending on their role and needs, from hybrid working to flexible working arrangements. We are open to discussing alternative working arrangements - such as part-time hours and job shares, so please feel free to raise this with us.

**About us**

Flogas Britain is one of the largest distributors of off-grid energy in the UK and has over 35 years’ experience of providing solutions to both commercial and domestic customers, principally in the form of liquid gas. The business has a longstanding record of organic growth driven by new installations, underpinned by a strong technical engineering expertise and capability, which combined with a number of bolt-on acquisitions have resulted in its market share increasing from 10% to over 30%.

The business is at the forefront of the energy transition having developed a prominent track record in converting customers from higher emissions fuels to lower carbon and cleaner solutions for the last decade and is well placed with a significant range of opportunities to develop and diversify into New Energies into the future in line with our 2040 vision to provide 100% renewable solutions to customers.

The recent acquisition of Protech by Flogas Britain further extends the business’ capabilities in this regard to provide innovative and lower carbon solutions into the commercial sector; combining renewable-ready gas combustion with alternative technologies such as heat-pumps, solar power and electric vehicle charging to provide a complete solution to customers and assisting them on their own path to net zero.

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

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person

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