Transport Planner – Milton Keynes

Salary £39,100

Hours 2:00pm - 11:00pm or 3:00pm - 12:00am, Monday to Friday

Our client is one of the best known names in the Distribution Industry, providing customers with high standards of quality and service.

JOB PURPOSE

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Transport Planner to join our busy Milton Keynes Depot. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong transport planning experience who thrives in a fast-paced transport operation.

In this role, you will be responsible for the effective planning and coordination of transport operations, ensuring palletised freight is loaded, unloaded, and moved efficiently and accurately in line with company standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate transport routes to meet customer collection and delivery requirements, ensuring efficient fleet utilisation.
• Communicate with drivers throughout the day to ensure deliveries and collections are completed safely and on time.
• Monitor daily delivery and collection performance, resolving operational issues as they arise.
• Manage delivery bookings, ETA updates and customer requirements, ensuring accurate communication and service delivery.
• Support vehicle compliance activities, including vehicle inspections, defect management, maintenance planning and MOT scheduling.
• Monitor vehicle availability and ensure operational plans reflect fleet status.
• Conduct driver debriefs, ensuring vehicle defects, operational issues and customer concerns are recorded and actioned.
• Liaise with customers, network depots and internal departments to resolve operational queries and maintain service levels.
• Support internal and external audits by maintaining accurate operational and compliance records.
• Promote and maintain high standards of Health & Safety and operational compliance, ensuring hazards, near misses, incidents and compliance issues are reported and addressed appropriately.
• Adhere to all Health & Safety procedures, site rules and company policies.

Skills & Experience Required

• Proven experience in planning multi-drop collections and deliveries.
• Good understanding of vehicle compliance requirements, including vehicle inspections, MOT scheduling, defect reporting and fleet maintenance processes.
• Strong awareness of Health & Safety standards and safe working practices.
• Previous pallet network, transport or logistics experience is desirable.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Flexible, reliable and able to demonstrate a strong work ethic.
• Good communication skills with the ability to work effectively with drivers, customers and operational teams.
• Good IT skills with the ability to manage data, documentation and operational records.

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