Transport Planner Night Shift

Transport Planner
Salary: £41,400
Location: Immingham
Hours: Nights shift, 4 on/4 off

Hybrid-working
Grafton Recruitment are delighted to be recruiting for a Transport Planner on behalf of a successful company based in Immingham. The role of Transport Planner will be reporting to the Logistics Manager and will be needed to fill a 4 on/4 off nights shift pattern.

Duties of the Transport Planner includes:

• Work in line with Health & Safety policy, legislation and company safety principles
• Create weekly order sheets, maintain standing orders
• Create sales orders in the planning system and print delivery notes where required
• Monitor customer stock and plan deliveries accordingly
• Create delivery plans, allocating trailers for each delivery, using the most efficient source and continually review this to identify potential issues and pro-actively amend as needed
• Liaise with third party drivers to ensure that they are aware of the delivery plan, providing them with all information needed
• Liaise with hauliers daily to obtain manning and resource availability
• Monitor stock levels at various sites and inform Logistics Manager of any problems
• Manage purchase orders for logistic-related suppliers
• Work with colleagues to ensure that 24-hour planning cover is provided for the team
• Liaise with departments to ensure awareness of stock requirements and shipments arrive in a timely manner
• Inform the Engineering department of issues with items
• Daily contact with customers for enquiries, keeping the Commercial department informed of complaints and issues when needed

You will need:

• IT literacy, with experience of transport systems and telemetry systems
• Experience in planning of bulk multi-drop deliveries is essential
• Good understanding of UK/EU driving regulations
• Exceptional communication and customer service skills
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills
• A CPC qualification would be desirable