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Bennett and Game are working with a large family-owned company within the Bristol area. An exciting opportunity within a growing and fast paced business for a person with experience in transport planning within Bristol, South Glos and surrounding areas. The ideal candidate will assist our Logistics and Operations manager in the daily planning and routing of our fleet of tippers to serve our customers delivering and collecting material from sites across the south west.
Transport Planner Position Overview
This role would be well suited to individuals with a background/keen interest in Planning, Logistics or Transport Planning who are flexible, organised and used to working in a fast-paced environment.
- Communicate with customers times of delivery, and any possible delay's that may occur.
- Answer phone in polite and timely manner taking orders, enquires and instructions from our clients.
- Liaise with supply chain to ensure material in stock and ordered for coming orders.
- Liaising with fleet and subcontractors to ensure all allocated orders and being delivered, as planned and on time as directed by Transport planner.
- Regular call to site and customers to be proactive in gathering information on forthcoming orders and requirements from our customers.
- Provide drivers with important routing information and site-specific instructions.
- Re-routing drivers as and when required quickly and efficiently.
Transport Planner Position Requirements
- Previous experience in Logistics, Transport or Fleet Management
- Good geographical knowledge or scheduling/ route planning experience
- Full UK driver's license
- Experienced in Microsoft Office systems and other office systems.
Transport Planner Position Remuneration
- Mon - Fri - 7am - 5pm
- Salary 28K
- Standard Pension
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.
