Senior Transport Planner

Our Minworth site are now recruiting for a Senior Transport Planner to join their friendly team on a full time permanent basis. Salary: £39,124 per annum. Working hours: Monday- Friday, 9am-5pm. As a Senior Transport Planner you will support the site operation with planning transport taking into account WTD & EU regulations and compliance legalities. Key Duties of a Senior Transport Planner: - Managing and overseeing the Transport day operation, ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained. - Optimising resource and adherence of WTD & drivers’ hours legislation. - Planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery / collection times, creating and updating daily run summary. - Effectively communicating with the Planning team and other depots. - Providing 24/7 communication Transport link with Customer Services and Sales Order Processing. - Monitoring retailer arrival and departure times, ensuring deliveries are made within the specified windows. - Finding the best fit solution for customer collections, adhering to collection times. - Arranging deliveries using nominated contractors for special instruction deliveries, re-deliveries. - Communicating any potential failures or changes to the original plan. - Ensuring all accidents, incidents and near misses are logged and reported. - Liaising and planning drivers in for meetings / courses as required. - Significant transport experience in FMCG environment. - Attention to detail/accuracy. - Planning and organising skills, high level of numeracy. - Strong communication skills in order to deliver accurate information. - Effectively prioritise work load in order to meet set deadlines. - Able to work as part of a team or individually. - Have knowledge of Road Transport Directive and current drivers’ hours. - Be professional, approachable and helpful to ensure smooth running of the general operation.