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Transport Planner
Salary: 41,400
Location: Immingham
Hours: Nights shift, 4 on/4 off
Hybrid-working
Grafton Recruitment are delighted to be recruiting for a Transport Planner on behalf of a successful company based in Immingham. The role of Transport Planner will be reporting to the Logistics Manager and will be needed to fill a 4 on/4 off nights shift pattern.
Duties of the Transport Planner includes:
- Work in line with Health & Safety policy, legislation and company safety principles
- Create weekly order sheets, maintain standing orders
- Create sales orders in the planning system and print delivery notes where required
- Monitor customer stock and plan deliveries accordingly
- Create delivery plans, allocating trailers for each delivery, using the most efficient source and continually review this to identify potential issues and pro-actively amend as needed
- Liaise with third party drivers to ensure that they are aware of the delivery plan, providing them with all information needed
- Liaise with hauliers daily to obtain manning and resource availability
- Monitor stock levels at various sites and inform Logistics Manager of any problems
- Manage purchase orders for logistic-related suppliers
- Work with colleagues to ensure that 24-hour planning cover is provided for the team
- Liaise with departments to ensure awareness of stock requirements and shipments arrive in a timely manner
- Inform the Engineering department of issues with items
- Daily contact with customers for enquiries, keeping the Commercial department informed of complaints and issues when needed
You will need:
- IT literacy, with experience of transport systems and telemetry systems
- Experience in planning of bulk multi-drop deliveries is essential
- Good understanding of UK/EU driving regulations
- Exceptional communication and customer service skills
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills
- A CPC qualification would be desirable
