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Transport Planner

Bennett & Game Recruitment
Posted 13 hours ago, valid for a month
Location

Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1PL, England

Salary

£32,000 - £38,400 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • Bennett and Game are seeking a Transport Planner for a respected haulage business specializing in the Rail, Construction, and Engineering sectors.
  • The role requires a minimum of 2 years' experience in a similar position, along with a good geographical knowledge of the UK.
  • Key responsibilities include transport planning, scheduling, customer service, and liaising with drivers and hauliers.
  • The position offers a salary of £33,000 plus a monthly performance bonus, which can amount to approximately £10,000 annually based on current performance.
  • Working hours are from 07:30 to 17:00, Monday to Friday.

Bennett and Game are working with a well-respected haulage business looking to add a Transport Planner to the team as they continue to grow as a business. As a business they specialise in supplying services to the Rail, Construction and Engineering sectors.

Transport Planner Job Overview
  • Commercial awareness and able to provide high service levels to clients.
  • Prioritising workload to complete all tasks in a timely and concise manner.
  • Transport planning and scheduling.
  • Taking phone calls and dealing with general enquiries, customer quotations via email.
  • Developing business with clients and maximising opportunities to ensure all available trailers have loads.
  • Input of data including entering/updating job files maintaining our transport planning system(Fleet Wizard)
  • Delivering good customer service consistently.
  • Ensuring the drivers and hauliers provide adequate levels of service.
  • Liaise with drivers and driver management.
  • Other general department duties and any other tasks as deemed reasonable for the effective running of the department.
Transport Planner Job Requirements* Experience of working in a transport environment is essential.* Must possess a good geographical knowledge of the UK.* Minimum 2 years' experience in a similar role and must possess knowledge of planning and routing.* Knowledge of Hiab, flatbed and or plant and machinery transport an advantage.Transport Planner Salary & Benefits

07:30 to 17:00 Monday - Friday

33k plus monthly performance bonus (after 3x months) (equivalent to circa 10k pa at present at current rate of performance)

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries. We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy, and in accordance with GDPR by applying you are granting us consent to process your data, and contact you in relation to this application and the services we offer.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.