Transport Planner

**Transport Planner Wanted**

Bennett and Game are working alongside a successful third generation family business, offering solutions in both of their product specialisms; Building & Plumbing as well as Renewables, Underfloor Heating and Ventilation. They are looking for a Transport Planner to join the business in their Warrington site.

You will undertake multiple daily tasks including planning of their daily orders & seeking continual improvements in all aspects of the transport department. This is a permanent position that provides the potential for the right person to establish a progressive career with the company. In this role, you will be supporting a variety of activities across the business, with daily liaison between sales, customer services, and warehouse departments. The role will involve providing ongoing support to the Warehouse team and directly reporting to the Logistics Supervisor and Head of Operations.

• Verifying and meeting established deadlines for product fulfilment, outgoing shipping, and transportation.
• Organising the runs on a daily basis and ensuring the delivery of goods is continuously achievable on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis.
• Ensure route optimization savings are achieved and scheduled so that they are profitable and contribute to the reduction of impact on the environment by being efficient.
• Analysing data to assess performance, discover logistical problems, and devise plans for improvements through our CameraMatics tracking system.
• Allocating jobs to warehouse team throughout the day, judging each order individual and working out what vehicle, run, and any other logistic implications which may arise per order.
• To help deliver a next-day service to our network of customers across the country.
• Maintaining logistics operations while liaising with warehouse and customer service to ensure the highest standards of service.

• Must be proactive, highly driven and can work under their own initiative.
• Work's well under pressure.
• Can do attitude, who is flexible with the ability to react quickly to the needs of the customer.
• Leadership and people management skills
• Must have good communication and organisational skills.

Monday - Friday - Hours 7:30am - 5:30pm or 8am until 6pm

Salary Around - £29,744

Pension

Career progression

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.