Transport Operative/Planner

Transport Operative/Planner

Location: Coleshill, Birmingham (B46) , B46 Salary: negotiable dependant upon experience Date posted: 18/06/2012 23:27 Job type:Permanent Company: I-Resourcer Contact: Iresourcer .com Ref: Totaljobs/892721 Job ID: 53871599

Hours of Work: Week about shifts
Shift 1 6.00am 2.30pm Monday to Friday
Shift 2 - 2.30pm 11pm Monday to Thursday and 2.30pm 7.30pm Friday, and 8.00am 11.30am Saturday
Half hour break each shift thus 40 hours per week total

Overall Purpose of the Job:
Working within a busy traffic department you will be responsible for ensuring that all early morning activities/evening activities shift dependant, are carried out in a professional and competent manner. You must be polite and courteous at all times and act in a professional manner. The job will involve liaising with drivers, warehouse staff, customers and depots on ETA calls, monitoring deliveries and dealing with general operational queries.

Principal Accountabilities (shift dependant):
Liaise with drivers, ensuring that they are all fully briefed with their days work, that they turn up at the correct times and that they leave the yard on time for any timed or booked delivery requirements; Be able to plan efficiently for multi drop deliveries and some collections; To put delivery notes to the drivers manifests for the days runs on the vehicles, ensuring every delivery or collection has the appropriate paperwork; Where necessary order agency staff for drivers who fail to attend for work, or re plan loads to ensure that all the work load is covered with minimal disruption to the customers needs.

Ensure all TPN pallets are scanned and any discrepancies are detailed and logged following the correct procedure.

Liaise with drivers to check on progress during the day, and inform them of any changes required, update the system where required, with failed AMs, timed or delays and let our clients customer services team know so they can inform the customer.

Book in any TPN deliveries that require this service, ensuring that vehicle utilization is optimised at all times.

Organise their vehicles to collect customers goods in an efficient manner
Pre plan all their own customer collections, ensuring that the correct size vehicle is planned for the load required and that they are also on time; De briefing drivers at the end of their shift; KPI reporting; Complete any administrative tasks associated with the role such as scanning documents, preparing paperwork for internal mail, input of labels if required, documenting instructions/amend jobs, answering incoming calls.

Skills and experience:

Transport/Planning experience ESSENTIAL
A good standard of education
High level of graphical knowledge of Birmingham, Coventry, Tamworth, Nuneaton and Atherstone. (West Midlands)
Excellent organisational, written and oral communication. Good team skills. Ability to multi task. Ability to work well under pressure. High degree of computer literacy. Good numeracy skills.