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- Overseeing the daily route planning of general haulage work, throughout the UK, of up to 60 vehicles per day.
- Liaising with existing customers and third parties to arrange deliveries and collections, making sure all our goods are delivered in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring high expectations are constantly met.
- Monitoring workload via internal systems to ensure vehicles are assigned to general freight and work prioritised.
- Planning loads and routes that are commercially beneficial to the company, searching internal platforms looking for jobs to keep all vehicles moving.
- Carry out driver debriefs and training, ensuring that our transport operation is running both safely and cost-effectively.
- Managing drivers and monitoring their performance.
- Escalate details of vehicle accidents, defects or any fleet issues to senior management.
- Act as holiday cover within the office for another position, so you will have an opportunity to learn various parts of the office functions and develop your skill set.
- Minimum of 1 years' experience in transport planning, pallet distribution and/or general haulage planning.
- Experience within pallet distribution and/or general haulage planning.
- Class 1 licence and FLT licence would be beneficial, but not essential.
- Previous experience of transport systems – Pallet Networks/Qargo/Stirling
- Transport MCPCQ National/International would be useful ,along with driver/vehicle compliance
- Full time, permanent
- Rotating AM/PM shifts every other day(dependent on whether Pallets, groupage or haulage) 6am-4pm, 7am-5pm, 10am-8pm
- Saturday AMs only 1x a month
- Salary up to £40,000 dependent upon experienceÂ
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life Assurance
