Transport Planner

5 days ago

Andover, United Kingdom HGV Drivers UK Full time

**HGV DRIVERS UK is looking for a Transport Planner for Permanent contract**

**The role**
- Review driver routes and plan to maximise efficiency
- Keep all customers informed of all failed services or significant delays
- Provide the communication link between customers and drivers
- Supervising and managing driver workloads
- Managing your driver's daily activities in line with the Working Time Directive and Driving hours.
- Planning vehicles around requests, challenges and changes
- Monitoring customer requests, allocating jobs and issuing instructions
- Keeping up to date with transport issues and dealing with changes to the days schedules
- Communicate fleet availability and issues to the whole team
- Liaising with drivers and colleagues to ensure on time deliveries
- Pre-brief and de-brief drivers on their daily runs throughout the day
- Troubleshooting critical transport related issues as they arise in a live environment

**You will have**
- Transport route planning experience
- Groupage and load planning experience
- Experience of working within a busy transport office
- Have a dynamic approach to solve resource and planning resolution/ modifications
- ICT literate
- Have a basic understanding of Large Goods Vehicles (weights, dimensions and terminology)
- A good geographic knowledge
- A proactive approach to continual professional development
- An excellent team player, able to work on own initiative and make decisions
- An effective communicator
- A positive attitude towards customer service and continuous improvement
- £25,200k per year

**Compliance / Legislative**:

- Work with CPC Holders to ensure all VOSA ‘Operator Licence’ legislative requirements are adhered to, responsibilities include:

- The making of arrangements to ensure that drivers comply with drivers’ hours and tachograph rules and with speed limits;
- The making of arrangements to ensure that the vehicles are maintained properly, including the inspection of vehicles at the appropriate time and the action taken to remedy defects found;
- The reporting and recording of vehicle defects by drivers;
- The making of arrangements to ensure that the vehicle/s are not overloaded;
- Ensure fleet records for depot are maintained to a high standard to include:

- Daily checks, defect reporting, servicing (DOE, tail lifts, Tacho calibration, MOTs)
- Complete Tacho records for vehicles and drivers
- Tacho Infringement management and disciplinary action where required
- Ensure all Health and Safety Legislation is complied with including SSoW, Risk Assessments, Tool Box Talks.

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

**Salary**: Up to £25,200.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Transport Planning: 2 years (preferred)

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