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Job Title: Transport Planner
Location: Cardiff
Hours: 45 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Time TBC, depending on operational requirements
Reporting to: Transport Manager & Assistant Transport Manager
Job Purpose:
Forward Waste Management is a well-established, continuously growing company providing innovative and value-added waste management services, primarily focused towards the manufacturing sector.
The Transport Planner will support the Transport Team in the safe, efficient and proactive management of a varied HGV fleet. This includes Hook-loaders, Skip wagons, Rigids, Curtain-siders and Tankers.
This is a great opportunity to progress, with potential room for development for the right candidate.
Principle Responsibilities:
- Transport planning & administration
- The efficient planning and routing of a fleet of HGV vehicles to ensure maximum efficiency and profitability, in line with internal KPIs and Service Level Agreements
- Ensure all movements are planned and any issues are communicated to the wider team
- Ensure all vehicles are planned according to the best possible price and haulage option
- Complete Customer confirmations when planning, ensuring actions are follow-up
- Ensure all paperwork is correct and distributed
- Provide solutions and resolve transport issues - Communicating with Drivers, Customer Service Team and Suppliers
- Sourcing Backloads to support the efficiency of the Transport team.
- Compile driver timesheets and support the Transport Team in the recording and analysis of data.
Compliance
- Ensure Health & Safety procedures and agreed working practices are followed at all times
- Ensure drivers adhere to hours, WTD and tachograph regulations
- Review and submit tachograph data
- Supporting the Transport Team in ensuring that vehicles are compliant with all relevant legislation
- Support the Transport Team in ensuring all vehicles are fully maintained by managing planned maintenance and servicing schedules by liaising with third party maintenance providers.
- Support the Transport Team in ensuring that driver training is up to date. This includes the use of the IHasco training suite and the daily requirements of a driver working within the Waste / recycling sector.
Skills & experience:
Essential
- Experience of route planning for drivers, choosing the most efficient and cost-effective routes.
- Confident to communicate verbally and in writing with a variety of people to include drivers, internal and external customers and suppliers.
- Proven IT skills in the use of Outlook, and the internet with data entry to inhouse databases (Weighsoft)
- Outstanding attention to accuracy and detail
- Excellent working knowledge of health & safety requirements relating to the safe and efficient running of a HGV fleet.
Desirable
- Experience of driving HGVs (with a working knowledge of related plant and machinery) AND/OR experience of working in a similar role within the Waste / Recycling sector
- A solid commercial understanding of the Waste/Recycling industry
- Understanding of HGVs and the plant and machinery (containers, compactors etc.) within the Waste / Recycling sector
Qualifications:
- Class 1 and/or Class 2 HGV licences would be advantageous
- Management Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) or willing to work towards it
Personal characteristics:
- The ability to communicate effectively both on the telephone and via email
- Be an excellent team player to work effectively with our internal teams, customers and supply chain partners
- Committed to providing a first-class Customer experience with the ability to develop relationships with suppliers, and customers both internal and external
- The ability to adapt and prioritise workloads in a changeable environment.
