Transport Operations Manager

2 weeks ago


Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom Berry Recruitment Full time
Job Title: Transport Planner

At Berry Recruitment, we are seeking a highly skilled Transport Planner to join our team. As a key member of our operations team, you will be responsible for providing a commercially focused collection service of domestic, recycling and trade waste, maximising all opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:
  1. Assist in the running of the CWR account of a commercially focused transport operation, working closely with Customer Services to deliver efficient service, minimise rolled jobs and maximise service delivery.
  2. Coordinate the day-to-day allocation of drivers, vehicles and work requirements, continually monitoring and achieving maximum efficiency and providing the most effective services.
  3. Coordinate the re-allocation and cover of work as a result of driver absences and all day-to-day re-allocation of driver staffing requirements.
  4. Ensure any absences or gaps in staffing are covered for CWR in the most commercial and effective manner.
  5. Monitor and review the productivity of all aspects of collection services, identifying, planning and implementing changes as and when necessary to achieve maximum efficiency, effectiveness and economic performance, with a high standard of customer care.
  6. Provide a high level of customer service at all times to external and internal customers.
  7. Manage seasonal re-routes for the RCV rounds, ensuring they are as efficient as possible and taking into account work won not yet started.
  8. Work closely with the sales team on ensuring new customers are booked on and scheduled correctly.
  9. Calculate profit/loss by RCV route regularly, reporting into the Transport Manager and Commercial Manager and developing a plan to make improvements.
  10. Review profit/loss by customer job to identify pricing issues with customers, where required reviewing specific customer accounts to ensure overall profitability.
  11. Ensure that events are routed into the rounds and deliveries and collections are booked on in a timely manner.
  12. Lead on all current and new 'event' opportunities within the Coastal Recycling remit and ensure revenue and profit margins are maintained/enhanced.
  13. Ensure ordering and delivery of wheelie bins is conducted in a timely and business critical manner, monitoring ongoing bin stock levels to enable swift deployment to new customers.
  14. Report regularly on job failures and develop a plan to reduce them as much as possible.
  15. Train other team members to cover your role during absence.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.



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