Transport Planner

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Job Title: Transport Planner</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Location: Preston area, Lancashire (on-site)</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Salary: £30,000 - £32,000 DOE + Benefits</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Job Type: Full-time, Permanent, Tuesday to Saturday</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Loom Talent is recruiting a Transport Planner on behalf of a long-established, privately owned food business in Lancashire. It supplies major UK retailers alongside a wider mix of trade and third-party customers.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">You'll join a close-knit, open-plan transport office, working alongside fellow planners and the driver desk on a shared, UK-wide plan from Scotland to the south coast. It's a busy, varied role and you'll handle problem solving as much as plan building.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">What you'll be doing:</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Building and adjusting the daily transport plan as part of the planning team, covering inbound collections, temperature-controlled deliveries and third-party work.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Solving problems live as the day unfolds, re-planning when drivers run out of hours, jobs change or issues come up on the road</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Liaising with customers, drivers and site teams to keep work moving and vehicles well utilised.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Using planning and vehicle tracking systems to keep the plan accurate and up to date, in line with drivers' hours and WTD rules.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">What we're looking for:</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Proven transport planning experience. This is essential, and food or temperature-controlled experience is a real advantage.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Confident use of planning software and vehicle tracking tools.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Good working knowledge of drivers' hours rules and the Working Time Directive.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">A team player who enjoys a lively, collaborative office and stays calm when the plan changes.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Living within a reasonable commute of the Preston area, ideally around 40 minutes.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Why apply:</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">A stable, growing business with a strong reputation in its sector.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Genuine internal progression, with several team members recently promoted from within.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Varied, UK-wide planning work across own-account and third-party customers.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Company pension, life insurance and free on-site parking.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Permanent position, with an immediate need for the right candidate.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">To apply, or for a confidential conversation about the role, contact Kieran Hayes at Loom Talent</p>