Transport Planner

1 month ago


Astley, United Kingdom WR Logistics Full time

Transport Planner - Manchester - Up to £39,000

Our client who are a Transport company are looking for a Transport Planner with Flatbed experience to join their team in the Manchester area.

The Transport Operator will play a central role creating an effective transport plan for their customers whilst complying with legal responsibilities, enhancing service, meeting revenue targets and vehicle utilisation.

Job type: Permanent

Hours: 07:00-17:00 or 08:00-18:00 - Monday to Friday (On-call one week in 3)

Salary: £39,000 DOE

Duties & Responsibilities:

Accurate use of TMS, vehicle tracking system, monitoring deliveries, failures, rejections and rebooks, whilst ensuring appropriate revenues are captured and invoiced
Listens and responds to customer requests and adheres to agreed SLA's
Prioritise and plan workloads in line with company KPI's
Operate vehicles ensuring optimisation of revenue
Follow compliance and company processes relating to driver hours regulations, RTA and incident/accident reporting including relevant follow up
Ensure both driver brief and debriefs are carried out without exception
Using agreed quoting tools to ensure new work is rated correctly.
Maintaining excellent working relationships with drivers, keeping a consistent and accurate flow of communication
Progress client deliveries, adjusting plans where necessary due to changing situations
Monitor driver performance and ensure effective management of available resources
Escalate issues to line management in good time, suggest solutions to issues/problems
Ensure driver compliance is in line with current legislation.
Continually develop local relationships with existing customers including generating backload opportunities from external contacts / clearing house
Check & approve drivers wage, and expenses claims ensuring they are accurate and pre-authorised
Act in accordance with health and safety, quality and environment policies
Ensure that all company assets are legal, compliant and operate safely
Ensure all trailers are serviced and MOT in line with the DVSA and Company guidelines.Requirements:

Previous experience working in a fast-paced transport environment, ideally planning flatbed vehicles throughout the UK
Previous driver management experience
Excellent UK geographical knowledge
Ability to plan and amend delivery schedules
Customer focused
Willingness to take on additional responsibilities.
Current transport legislation knowledgeWR Logistics are the #1 recruitment partner for all vacancies in the logistics industry. We recruit UK wide for permanent and contract jobs.

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