Transport Planner

Just Recruitment Group Ltd

Posted 2 days ago, valid for a month

Colchester, Essex CO3 3LJ, England

£30,000 per annum

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

Just Recruitment is seeking a Transport Planner for a logistics company near Colchester.
Candidates should have a background in planning within the general haulage or pallet network industries, with experience managing a fleet of Rigid or artic vehicles.
The role involves routing vehicles, ensuring communication with traffic office teams and drivers, and maintaining customer KPIs.
The position requires previous experience in a busy transport office and knowledge of legal requirements like the Working Time Directive and EU Drivers' Hours regulations.
The salary for this position is competitive, and candidates should ideally have several years of relevant experience.

Just Recruitment is delighted to be supporting, a transport and logistics business, based on the outskirts of Colchester - they are looking to add a Transport Planner to their existing team.

The successful Transport Planner will come from a planning background within the general haulage or pallet network industries.

The successful Transport Planner will have previous experience managing a fleet of Rigid / artic vehicles.

Duties include:

*Routing of vehicles and covering deliveries across UK.
*Previous experience transport planning in a busy transport office
*Providing good communication with our Traffic office teams and Drivers to ensure customer KPI's and targets are achieved and maintained.
*Use in-house planning tools and systems to manage workload and monitor efficiency
*Ensuring internal tracking systems are kept organised and updated
*Controlling and planning of resource (vehicles, drivers, trailers); ensuring all legal requirements are adhered to (Working Time Directive and EU Drivers' Hours regulations)
*Plan Rigid & artic work for following day
*Warehouse checks
*CPC Holder an advantage, but not essential

Please note due to location you will need to drive

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