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We are delighted to assist a rapidly growing medium sized 3PL to find an experienced Transport Planner for their site in West Yorkshire.

Title: Transport Planner

Region: Bradford

Salary: £50k + Bens + Prospects

Hours: 50hr week. Standard hours of work are 7.30 am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday + Saturdays on a rota / on call basis

Role Summary:

Plan and oversee up to 50 vehicles on multidrop and full load road haulage. Route planning is UK wide.

Work to deadlines in a fast-paced, pressurised situations.

There will be a requirement for a degree of out of hours work.

Communicate with customers regularly

Work closely with the existing team to ensure key operational objectives are achieved through maintaining a high standard of service to our customers.

Working closely with drivers, including agency drivers and subcontracted routes

Ensuring on time departure and exception reporting

Overseeing traffic planners ensure achieving financial targets.

Dealing with breakdowns, traffic delays and accidents & all related admin

Ensuring adherence to the Operator's License and driver's hours legislation

Ensuring correct paperwork (including disclaimers and driving license checks) and briefings are completed with agency drivers

Driving CI and people development.

Ideal candidate

A proven, hands-on Transport planner who has managed routes across the UK

Will have planned routes for fast moving operations ideally combining multi-drop, groupage & full load single drops.

Must be flexible on working on an on-call basis if needed on a Saturday.

Excellent communication skills with drivers, planners and depots

Must have had customer relationship experience

Computer literate including up to date transport planning tools

Drivers or Managers CPC if possible

This is a fantastic opportunity – we look forward to your application.

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