Load Planner

At Team Support we are looking for a Load planner to join our team.

This role is Monday - Friday, 11:00 - 19:00

You will manage the Transport admin for the day to day Operation with responsibility for the delivery of cost, service, compliance - in line with company and legal standards and requirements.

Responsibility for the effective control of Transport administration and load planner activities, with a deputy role to the load planner.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Cost**
- Ensure a best service at the right price approach is applied when looking at external contractors for depot requirements
- Investigate any PO discrepancies, credit requests and other cost associated queries
- Analysis of load planned routes to optimise fleet performance

**Service**
- Proactive communication with internal and external customers and suppliers / contractors
- Assist the load planner with planning routes, assigning vehicles and drivers and maintaining DRA’s and any other relevant requirements
- Assist in implementing effective change to facilitate customer requirements and depot needs

**Compliance**
- Ensure compliance with all quality and legal documentation and standards
- Assist in ensuring customer and company requirements are observed by monitoring the adherence to company policies and procedures
- Accurately complete relevant audits, as directed by the Load Planner
- Assist the Load Planner with the collation of data and preparation of monthly reports
- Monitor and maintain housekeeping standards in the depot. Identify, eliminate, isolate, or minimise workplace hazards

**People**
- Identify employee training requirements including mandatory regulatory training
- Assist Transport team with investigations into accidents and incidents. Completing any relevant documentation
- Assist the Transport team with management of site trackers and training matrices
- Ensure consistent communications across the team and develop and maintain relationships with other departments

**Leadership**
- Act following the company’s values and management principles
- Provide practical solutions to operational challenges and take ownership of problems and deal with them effectively
- Create and maintain a positive, safe, and productive working environment
- Continually assist in the review of ways of improving the operations in all areas, generating new ideas and actively implementing and promoting change

**Experience**
- Experience in an administration within a fast moving and changing work environment such as FMCG or logistics
- Knowledge and experience of Load Planning

**Skills/Behaviours**
- Passionate about providing a premium service
- Enthusiastic team player
- Able to solve problems and generate innovative solutions
- Able to multi-task in a pressured environment and work to tight deadlines and knowing when to escalate issues
- Able to plan and organise effectively
- Highly motivated and driven in maintaining the highest standards in quality and Health & Safety
- Effective communication skills - able to communicate effectively at all levels with good verbal and written English
- Must be flexible with work patterns as the role may require management at different times of the working day
- Positive approach and completion of any reasonable task requested by the management team

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

Pay: £24,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Admin: 1 year (preferred)
- Load Planner: 1 year (preferred)

**Location**:

- Hounslow (preferred)

Work Location: In person