Our Minworth site are now recruiting for a Senior Transport Planner to join their friendly team on a full time permanent basis.

Salary: £40,128 per annum. 

Working hours: Monday- Friday, 9am-5pm.

As a Senior Transport Planner you will support the site operation with planning transport taking into account WTD & EU regulations and compliance legalities.

Key Duties of a Senior Transport Planner:

• Managing and overseeing the Transport day operation, ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained.
• Optimising resource and adherence of WTD & drivers’ hours legislation.
• Planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery / collection times, creating and updating daily run summary.
• Effectively communicating with the Planning team and other depots.
• Providing 24/7 communication Transport link with Customer Services and Sales Order Processing.
• Monitoring retailer arrival and departure times, ensuring deliveries are made within the specified windows.
• Finding the best fit solution for customer collections, adhering to collection times.
• Arranging deliveries using nominated contractors for special instruction deliveries, re-deliveries.
• Communicating any potential failures or changes to the original plan.
• Ensuring all accidents, incidents and near misses are logged and reported.
• Liaising and planning drivers in for meetings / courses as required.