Transport Coordinator

Role overview

• ID: 2024-6486
• Entity: Vistry Works
• Region: Vistry Works East Midlands
• Department: Manufacturing
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: Coalville, Leicestershire
• Date Posted: 29.10.2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Transport Coordinator to join our team within Vistry Works, at our Bardon factory in Coalville, Leicestershire. As our Transport Coordinator, you will plan, manage and evaluate logistics operations, liaising with internal stakeholders, suppliers, logistics providers, transportation companies and sites to ensure the right products are delivered to the right location on time, to the quality required and in the most cost-effective way. The role will also be responsible for maintaining and helping to grow the dispatch function within the Logistics department and provide a robust, controlled and efficient service to all departments while creating and implementing best practice logistics principles, policies and processes across the organisation to improve operational and financial performance.

• Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
  • Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Private Healthcare
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
  • Share incentive schemes
  • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
• In return, what we would like from you...
  • Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
  • The ability to identify, communicate and implement opportunities for continuously improving working methods
  • The ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
  • The ability to work well within a team environment
  • Previous experience in a Despatch/Logistics role
  • Experience with 3PL
  • Confident communication skills
  • Experience in Microsoft Excel/Word
  • Strong time management skills

  Desirable...

  • Experience in Dynamics 365
  • Experience in manufacturing
  • Have a proficient level of skill with conducting an array of IT tasks, and will strive to remain up to date with the use of required software
• More about the Transport Coordinator role...
  • Liaise with all Contract Managers and planning to ensure all delivery schedules are in place
  • Liaise with 3PL to plan and arrange shipments of finished goods and sundries to sites
  • Ensure trailers are available in accordance with workload
  • Raise purchase orders for all transport required
  • Communicate with the Logistics team on load requirements
  • Excellent IT skills and aptitude

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...

We’re Vistry Group, the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they’re needed most.

You’re probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there’s nowhere better to build your career. We’re proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.

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Benefits

Agile Working

Offers a flexible way of working.

Annual Leave

Enjoy 28 days’ holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.

Pension with Legal & General

Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.

Volunteer Days

With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.

Why Vistry

Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.