Tranport Route Planner

We are looking for an experienced and proactive Person, who will be responsible for planning multidrop routes to collect and deliver palletized goods within Pallet Networks.

**Purpose and objectives of the role**

To liaise with the customers to arrange for the collection of palleted goods and route the drivers/vehicles accordingly

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- Working alongside the General Manager planning for multi drop collections/deliveries for a mixed fleet of arctic and rigid vehicles.
- Create daily routes for each vehicle, keeping in touch with drivers throughout the day and dealing with problems.
- Coordinating between customers, Pallet Network, and warehouse
- Liaise with the customer in relation to booking times and references also delays and possible issues with deliveries.
- Cost effective routing of vehicles to maximise fuel/mileage efficiency and minimise overtime working.
- Ensuring that the maximum workloads distributed to each driver can be completed safely and to high standards for duty of care.
- Full compliance with company policies, standards and legal regulations, Reference Road haulage operations and health and safety at work regulations

**Qualifications**
- Logistics & Transport Operations - Level 2 or above
- Knowledge of driver’s hours, Tachograph and WTD legislation
- CPC (would be advantageous but not essential)

**Skills**
- Ambitious, hardworking, driven, and self-motivated with a desire to learn and succeed with excellent communication and customer service skills.
- Confident in developing relationships with sites and customers with the ability to liaise at all levels.
- Ability to thrive under pressure.
- Willingness and flexibility to adapt to changing business needs and deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication with accuracy and attention to detail is key

**Experience**
- Experience in fleet or transport services.
- Experience withing a pallet network environment an advantage.

**Salary**: From £25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Dorset, BH21 6SU: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Transportation management systems: 1 year (required)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 31/03/2024
Reference ID: PE/EM-07.03.24