Transport Planner

7 months ago

StocktononTees, United Kingdom Suttons Tankers Full time

**Job Title**: Transport Planner
**Salary**:£35.000 (DOE)
**Work Location: Stockton-on-Tees**
**Hours of Work**:Day Shift - Rough Office hours

**Benefits**: 25 Days Annual Leave + Banks, Pension, Life Assurance + Additional Benefits

Because of business growth, Suttons Tankers are recruiting for an experienced Transport Planner to join the Planning team at our Widnes site.

**The Role**:
Being an effective communicator, you will work with our customers and ensure that our drivers have a good understanding of their daily transport plan and keep a thorough check on their completion of work. You will also need to keep our customers up to date with the status of their jobs and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction is maintained.

You will be tasked to deliver the required KPIs (Revenue Per Shift, OTIF, mileage efficiency, vehicle utilisation etc.) and be sufficiently robust to cope with anticipated events and customer-driven changes. You will be customer facing, so being able to communicate effectively with our customer is key.

In this position, you will work Monday to Friday across rough office hours, start times between 8-9am, finish times between 5-6pm.

**Responsibilities**:

- Effective planning of driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery/collection times, creating and updating daily run summary
- Liaise with local operations covering pre loading & unloading operation
- Ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained, in conjunction with other departments
- Optimisation of resource and adherence of WTD and drivers hours legislation
- Using the Driver Rota, plan drivers according to shift pattern and available hours, taking into account holidays and sickness
- To ensure legal compliance regarding any defects, services, MOTs etc
- Ensure all accidents/incidents/near miss are logged and reported in line with company procedures
- Maintain clear and effective communication with drivers, communicating accurate start times, load information, directions, additional shifts etc
- To increase staff retention and maintain good morale, reporting any drivers issues or concerns to management. In turn, communicate any operational changes that may affect a drivers daily duties
- Ensure adherence to all statutory and legal requirements, adhere to all health & safety/ safe systems of work
- Utilise and interpret the Transport Management System to maximise route planning efficiencies within given time constraints and service criteria
- Provide effective communication during shift handovers and engage with other Transport Controllers regarding issues arising during the shift
- Other duties assigned by their manager from time to time

**Experience Required**:

- Experience of working in a Health & Safety Focused environment
- Have a strong working knowledge of the Geography of the UK
- Previous experience from the logistics/transport sector
- Can anticipate and resolve problems effectively
- Experience of working in a cost-sensitive environment
- Competent in the use of IT based Transport Systems and MS Office
- Successful track record of dealing with customers directly both internal and external

**The Package**:
In return, you will receive a competitive salary of up to £35,000 dependent on experience. You will also benefit from a company pension scheme, paid holidays (25 days + 8 bank holidays), cycle to work scheme, tech scheme and the opportunities that come with a strong, established and growing company.

In addition, Suttons provide every UK employee with access to Suttons Perks, our Employee Assistance Programme and reward platform. Suttons Perks provides discounts to 100s of top name brands, high street offers, and holidays, as well as Employee Wellbeing and Support.

**The Company**:
In the UK, Suttons Tankers operates a nationwide road tanker fleet which has been successfully serving the chemicals, gas, fuels, waste, and powders sectors for over 60 years, and is the largest chemical transporter in the UK.

We have a fleet of 8,000 tank containers, 500 trucks, and 700 trailers. We carry out 170,000+ shipments per year - that equates to a delivery every 3 minutes

Suttons Group is an equal opportunity employer.

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