Transport Planner

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Transport Planner Required!</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Location: Portsmouth</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Salary: £36,000</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 - 6:30 (Saturday 1 in 4, remote, up to 2 hours)</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Our client is an established UK transport and logistics company, operating a busy pallet distribution and haulage operation across the country.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">On behalf of our client, we are looking to recruit an organised and experienced Transport Planner to join their transport team.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">This is a varied role covering transport planning, driver and warehouse support, customer bookings and general administration, with the successful candidate playing an important part in the day-to-day running of the operation.</p>

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

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Monday to Friday, 8:30am-6:30pm, including a 1-hour unpaid lunch</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">£36,000 per annum</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Saturday working from home on a 1-in-4 rota</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Saturday duties generally involve checking a small number of deliveries, can take only up to 2 hours</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Additional company benefits discussed at interview</p>

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

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Assist with route planning and daily transport scheduling across multiple pallet networks</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Plan vehicles and transport movements for Isle of Wight deliveries, including movements involving ADR goods</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Coordinate with drivers and the warehouse to resolve day-to-day queries</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Book in customer deliveries and collections</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Monitor transport movements and assist with resolving any issues or delays</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Manage a shared and busy operational email inbox</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Answer incoming telephone calls and deal with transport-related queries</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Complete general administration and operational duties for the pallet network operations</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Support the wider transport team with the efficient running of the daily operation</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Carry out Saturday delivery checks as part of the 1-in-4 home-working rota</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">Transport Planner - Requirements</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Previous experience within a transport planning, transport operations or logistics role</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Experience of route planning and coordinating transport movements</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Good geographical knowledge of the UK</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Excellent organisational and time-management skills</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Strong problem-solving ability and good common sense</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">High attention to detail and accuracy</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Ability to work independently while also contributing effectively as part of a team</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Confident communication skills, both by telephone and email</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Comfortable managing a busy workload and changing priorities</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Good IT and administration skills</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Previous pallet network experience would be essential</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Knowledge or experience of ADR transport would be advantageous</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Streamline Search is a technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the United Kingdom. We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy, and in accordance with GDPR by applying to this post you are granting us consent to process your data and contact you in relation to this application</p>