Transport Planner

Job Location	Avonmouth
Education	Not Mentioned
Salary	25,000 per annum
Industry	Not Mentioned
Functional Area	Not Mentioned
Job Type	Permanent, full-time

Job Description

Job Title:Transport PlannerSalary:£25,000 - £30,000Location:Bristol, AvonmouthHours:42.5 hours per week - shift pattern (06:00am - 18:00pm)The Role:TheTransport Plannerrole is a new role that will play a key part of our clients new regional logistics strategy.Reporting to the Regional Transport Manager, youll be responsible for the delivery of effective and efficient transport routes across multiple depots for a number of drivers and vehicles up to an approximate maximum of 10 drivers or 8 vehicles.Youll playan active role in the safe operations of the transport operation and to ensure our drivers, vehicles and routes operate to the highest levels of safetyYour key responsibilities will include:

Creation of daily transport routes to deliver high levels of customer services
Responsible for route efficiency. Lead review process & compliance to optimise van/LGV schedules and 3PL usage
Responsible for delivering the Operational Performance to the agreed KPI targets
The agreed KPIs will include:
- On Time delivery performance
- Vehicle productivity in the form of jobs per vehicle (JPV) KPI
- Number of Accidents through demonstrative action to reduce the number of accidents
- Vehicle uptime by reducing vehicle off road (VOR) time
- 100% POD and POC compliance to ensure revenue collection
Working pro-actively to reduce missed time-slots & late deliveries
Ensuring any transport issues arising from customers & drivers are resolved
Briefing & De-Briefing drivers

About you:

Hire/Rental industry experience preferred but not essential
Excellent organisation skills and the ability to stay calm under pressure. The role will cover resources and routes in multiple depots with vehicles and people
Transport planning in a similar or transferable environment such as a Transport office managing multiple locations, drivers and vehicles with responsibility for routing and route optimisation, Transport compliance and O licence regulations. Someone whohas or is working towards Transport Manager CPC would be ideal
IT skills, a good level of technical proficiency is preferred in both transport and workforce management related systems such as Paragon, Job Watch (Big Change) or Rotec and general Microsoft applications such as Excel or Access, Business Objects
Excellent geographical knowledge of UK road network

Benefits:

A thriving nationwide business
Fantastic company pension scheme
Generous holiday allowance
Competitive starting salary
Reward scheme

Please note that Cordant People are an equal opportunities employer

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