Transport Planner

Job Title: Transport Planner
Location: Warrington (WA2 8RF)
Salary: £29,744 per annum
Shifts: Monday- Friday 08:00- 18:00
Contract Type: Permanent


We are currently recruiting for an experienced Transport Planner for our client based in Warrington.

Reporting to the Transport Manager, you will undertake multiple daily tasks including planning of daily orders and seeking continual improvements in all aspects of the transport department. Yu will be supporting a variety of activities across the business, with daily liaison between sales, customer service and warehouse departments.


As a Transport Planner, your duties will be: -

" 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 optimisation savings are achieved and scheduled so that they are profitable and contribute to the reduction of impact on the environment by being efficient.
" Ensure Health & Safety regulations are adhered to, and drivers complete thorough vehicle checks daily.
" Allocating jobs to warehouse team throughout the day, judging each order individually and working out what vehicle, run, and other logistic implications which may arise per order.
" Ensuring that shipping methods are complying with rules, regulations, and laws. Coordinating and resolving transport-based claims and discrepancies. Monitoring and reporting quality returns that impact on the logistics function.

The successful Transport Planner will have the following skills: -

" Ideally have worked within a similar role previously.
" Excellent attention to detail with the ability to analyse data and interpret the information effectively to continuously improve the department.
" Good leadership and people management skills.
" Must have good communication skills both written and verbal as well as excellent organisational skills.
" Proactive, highly driven and can work under own initiative.
" Works well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.