Contributing to the success of the Transport team, you will be responsible for the day to day planning of the transport operation, through the efficient planning of the transport operation.
Working hours: Sunday to Thursday lates, 13.00-22.00
Salary: £37,000 per annum
Key Duties of a Transport Planner:
- Ensure effective communication is maintained within the business ensuring teamwork is always strong and collaborative.
- Ensuring driver team arrive for work on time and arrange cover for absences when required.
- Correct utilisation of staff and vehicles using the company diary sheet/planner
- To route all vehicles available generating revenue and solid route plans to ensure that routes are both achievable and vehicles are used to best efficiency, maintaining, and updating any amendments throughout the day so the information is live for all to access.
- To ensure key duties are completed without fail, for example, postcode checker.
- Analysing delivery data to ensure the relevant KPI’s and revenue targets are achieved on each vehicle.
- Arrange and oversee loading/pre-loading activity to ensure a timely despatch.
- To work with the TPN team to ensure the depot is both efficient and profitable and reviewing synergies to enhance this
- Deal with drivers queries appropriately, and ensuring driver’s collections and deliveries are completed to schedule including undertaking driver (de)briefing.
- Deal with customer queries and complaints effectively, ensuring that goodwill is maintained.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with our customers, other TPN depots and our staff within Eezehaul.
- To accurately prepare administration within set timeframes required
- Ensure all systems are kept updated including accurate data entry, POD management.
- To answer the telephones in a timely and appropriate manner
- To carry out other tasks that may be required for the company from time to time.
- Adhere to health and safety policy, and other requirements relating to Analysis and continual improvement of service delivery KPI’s
Apply on company website Gatwick Road, Crawley, England, United Kingdom On-site Full-time GBP 37,000 / year
Culina Group is hiring a Transport Planner
About company
We are a market leading ambient and chilled food & drink 3PL specialist, providing warehousing, distribution, contract packing and a bonded division with extensive expertise in relation to dutiable goods across the UK and Ireland. We have recently added both Fresh and Food Manufacturing divisions and are looking towards the future and the continuation of being one of the leading logistics companies within the UK.
Using modern IT infrastructure, including warehouse management systems, satellite tracking and client interfaces we are able to offer unrivalled customer support, ensuring that you always know where your products are. Online up to date data is always available through customer web portals allowing you to track your goods from anywhere, while a significant investment of over £2.5m in customer service infrastructure over the last five years ensures that we exceed customer expectations not just once or twice, but every single time.
Working hand in hand with some of the globe's leading brands and manufacturers is an everyday event at Culina Group, plus with a multitude of own-label producers and developing companies, all are catered for with an efficient and flexible infrastructure. Importantly, our strategic focus is on food & drink logistics within a shared-user environment, which is driven by volume and critical mass. This ultimately delivers an efficient and cost effective solution for clients of all sizes.
We are committed to future proofing our business by investing in teams, network, systems, sector and the environment, which will ensure we continue to provide clients with a robust supply chain platform which performs beyond expectations every day. The latest two service additions of Fresh and Food Manufacturing are testament to this ethos, ensuring that we continue to become a leading light within the logistics industry.