Location: On site / Cardiff CF10, UKjob type: Permanent / Full-timeSector and subsector: Supply Chain | PlanningSalary: Competitive salary
Owens Group is a fast developing, multisite organisation, with a large diverse customer base, making this an exciting opportunity.
As a result, Owens Group is looking to recruit a Transport Planner in our Cardiff Depot.
Working hours: 06.00-15.00- week one, 10.00-19.00 week two on rotating basis
To take responsibility for the timely traffic planning of routes and scheduling delivery times to ensure that the customer receives a first class service in a cost effective way.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Carry out tasks largely unsupervised to cost and quality standards
- Plan ahead – tasks and resources. Liaise with internal/external customers to resolve problems.
- Collect, analyse and distribute information/data.
- Provide professional/specialist advice both internally and externally.
- Developing relationships with external customers.
- Specify and ensure levels of support service are in place.
- Prioritise and co‑ordinate workloads
- Completion of tasks to time and quality standards
- No customer complaints working to budgets
- Successful working partnerships with customers, internal and external
- Delivering the right advice in a timely manner, achieving respect of others about your competence.
- Practising safe working procedures.
Specific Key Accountabilities
- Working with customers, suppliers, drivers and other traffic desks, planning routes and scheduling delivery times to ensure the smooth running of the operation
- Prioritising workload, route planning driver brief and de‑brief
- Liaising with other depots within the Company
- Driver communication and monitoring
- Strong organisational skills for planning schedules, journeys and loads
- Proactively work to reduce late deliveries and missed time slots
- Ability to work flexibly and to make decisions quickly
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to deal with people at all levels
- Maintain computerised system Stirling; have the skills to use Excel spreadsheets
- A good understanding of transport regulations currently in force
- Good geographical knowledge
- Booking driver agency staff depending on workload
- Must monitor compliance and work with drivers and Compliance to eliminate infringements
- Must ensure that all drivers are aware of SAFED, and be actively involved in improving SAFED achievements to goals
- Must be an integral part of, and be responsible for employee health and safety
- Ensure that vehicles and trailers are available in a timely manner to adhere to compliance and inspection requirements
- Provide general support appropriate to the management when required
Specific Qualifications / Job Training
- Experience of working at a similar level.
- Job specific qualification preferred.
- Specific experience.
- Traffic management.
- Dealing with VOSA compliance.
- Problem solving/logical thinking.
- Working unsupervised, continually managing time and prioritising work to meet tight deadlines.
Specific Skills
Good communication skills, interaction at all levels internally and externally.
Geographical knowledge.
Team player with a flexible ‘Can Do’ attitude.
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