As Planning Manager you will proactively lead and manage the Local Planning Team, delivering a transport plan that effectively deploys the company’s transport assets. This plan should deliver compliance with relevant legislation, company procedures meets customer requirements and generate profit to the business.

Working hours: 4 on 4 off days, 06.00-18.00

Salary: Up to £43,000 per annum (DOE)

Key Duties of a Planning Manager:

• Manage the Daily Transport Plan (COP024) by ensuring Team Leaders carry out daily duties.
• Daily analysis of the P&L for each of their team’s planning boards
• Regular monitoring of  Empty Legs information
• Regular monitoring of ISOTRAK’s group analysis screen for their team resource pool
• Monitoring status boards for the national fleet analysing booked, planned and completed jobs
• Liaising with Team Leaders to ensure data requirements for GTS are complete. Advise on any remedial action if data is missing
• Gathering all relevant information on outstanding work in allocated traffic areas and communicate ‘state of play’ during conference calls
• Working alongside Team Leaders to assist where possible all traffic areas that have work outstanding
• Liaising with Transport Managers via conference call to ensure DOT and other issues are monitored. With remedial action put into place should it be needed
• Briefing planning teams with all relevant information from UK Transport conference calls
• Provide leadership and guidance to the planning team and individual planners by:
• Liaising with Team Leaders in relation to WTD, time lapse reports and restricted parking.
• Analysing all WTD information for the team’s resource pool. Discussing all excess hours with individual planners and inform Operations of all intended actions (COP 109)
• Ensuring that the agency / casual tracker is up to date with any manpower used for the previous shift
• Controlling the management of absence and holidays for the team
• Ensuring critical information is flowing by updating the intranet / notice-boards
• Ensuring that all training needs are met for the planners and the Team Leaders (including inductions, re-training, GTS, ISOTRAK)
• Delivering improved organisation capability through the Appraisal and 1-1 process.