Transport Planner

**Role**:Transport Administrator / Planner

**Reporting to**: Transport Manager

**Working Hours**: 8:00am - 6:00pm, Monday - Friday, working & every other Saturday

**Location**: Riverway, Harlow, Essex, CM20 2DP

**Salary**: £30,000 - £33,000

**The Company**

Founded in 1997 as a transport company, HDL have grown and developed our offering, culminating in a move to premises in Harlow. We offer a BRC Grade AA accredited warehousing for a number of well-known blue chip food brands. Our 45,000sqft secured warehouse is fully racked and can store 4,000 food graded pallets. With three docking platforms and two flat earth docks, HDL offer a range of

warehousing services for local, national and international

customers. Services include:

- Cross dock services
- Container loading and unloading capability.
- Value enhancing reworking.
- Returned goods processing.
- Customer bar-coded stock management with full customer online inventory visibility
- BRC Grade AA accreditation for storage and movement of ambient food products and consumer food packaging

**The Role**

We have an opportunity to join our busy team at HDL. Initially the role will cover all aspects of transport administration with the objective the role will then develop to support with the transport planning and routing.

Using our bespoke planning database, our transport team optimise the daily transport plan to ensure effective and efficient utilisation of our fleet, whilst meeting the needs of our customers.

**Main duties of the role include**:

- Booking of jobs onto our planning database
- Support with all transport administration
- Source work and / or loads from our list of contacts to ensure our trucks are fully utilised
- Check vehicle availability for future work
- Prepare and communicate a daily work sheet to our team of drivers in a timely and efficient manner
- Communicate continuously with your team to ascertain workload and delegate as required
- Effective Planning and utilisation of Drivers and vehicles
- Ensure driver’s hours and working time directive regulations and related legislation are adhered to.
- Plan collections and deliveries to agreed movement schedules.
- ensure the smooth and continual running of the administration within the Transport Division.
- Communicate with drivers ensuring all paperwork is completed and returned
- Ensure that all vehicles are loaded efficiently within legal and safety guidelines

**The Person**
- Previous experience within a similar role with an in-depth understanding of transport legislation is essential
- Able to remain calm and focused under pressure
- Able to solve problems independently and with confidence
- PC literate including Microsoft packages with Excel at intermediate or advanced level
- able to work effectively in a close team.
- Have a pro-active attitude to all issues to ensuring resolutions are achieved.
- Be able to make decisions under pressure and to a tight timescale.
- Have a flexible and adaptable approach to working in order to meet the requirements of the business, particularly at peak periods during the year.
- Be able to communicate well at all levels within the business.
- highly motivated.
- Must be flexible in approach to work and shift patterns.

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

**Salary**: £30,000.00-£33,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person