Transport Planner
Job Description
Job Title: Transport Planner
Salary: £35,793 per annum.
Work Location: Coleshill
Contract: Permanent
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday 06:00 – 14:00
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Weekend On-call cover on rota basis.
Benefits: 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays, Pension, Life Assurance + Benefits
Who are Schenk UK Ltd:
Schenk UK is an innovative, national tanker haulage business operating one of the largest road tanker fleets in the country. For over 60 years, we have proudly served the chemicals, gas, fuels, waste, and powders sectors, becoming the UK's largest chemical transporter. As one of our Planners, you will be a commercially aware candidate who will play an integral part in the delivery of high quality, cost effective, logistics services for our customer base by being responsible for the efficient movement of LGV tanker trailers across the country including single and multiple drops per day at customer sites.
The Role:
Based on our customer’s site, and being an efficient communicator and multi-tasker, you will work directly with our customer and ensure that our drivers have total clarity of their daily transport plan and keep a thorough check on their completion of work. You will also need to keep the customer up to date with the status of their jobs and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction is maintained. Ideally you will be an experienced Planner / Transport Co-ordinator who is familiar with various Planning tools and supporting software including Microlise and have great Excel skills. If you have experience with other planning software, full training will be provided.
You will be tasked to deliver the required KPIs (Revenue Per Shift, OTIF, mileage efficiency, vehicle utilisation etc.) and be sufficiently robust to cope with anticipated events and customer-driven changes. You will be customer and driver facing, so being able quickly build excellent professional relationships is key.
Responsibilities:
First point of contact and escalation for all H&S related events, whilst on shift
Effective planning of driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery/collection times, creating and updating daily rotas
Liaise with local operations and Air Liquide to cover loading & unloading for exceptional completion
Ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained, in conjunction with other departments
Optimisation of resource and adherence of WTD and drivers’ hours legislation
Using the Driver Rota, plan drivers according to shift pattern and available hours, considering holidays, sickness and changes in demand
To ensure legal compliance regarding any defects, services, MOT’s, maintenance schedules etc
Ensure all accidents/incidents/near miss are logged and reported in line with company procedures
Maintain clear and effective communication with drivers, communicating accurate start times, load information, directions, additional shifts etc
To increase staff retention and maintain good morale, reporting any driver’s issues or concerns to management. In turn, communicate any operational changes that may affect a driver’s daily duties
Ensure adherence to all statutory and legal requirements, adhere to all health & safety/ safe systems of work
Utilise and interpret the Transport Management System to maximise route planning efficiencies within given time constraints and service criteria
Provide effective communication during shift handovers and engage with other Transport planners regarding issues arising during the shift
Supporting on drivers wages, expenses and holiday planning
Flexibility to cover others shifts & weekend on call
Other duties assigned by their manager from time to time