Our Client an established Freight Forwarder based in Monaghan is now looking for an experienced Transport Planner to join their team.
Job Title: Transport Planner
Location: Co.Monaghan
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent position
Duties and Responsibilities
- Plan workloads ensuring compliance with driver’s hours and working time directive legislation.
- Using geographical knowledge to maximise the fleet ability to work efficiency
- Effective planning to minimise running costs
- Supervising and managing driver workloads
- Reacting to route planning changes when needed and re-routing
- Responsible for providing a detailed and accurate handover to the next shift if required
- Maintaining driver communication
- Ensuring drivers have the correct jobs
- Ensuring drivers are on time
- Responsible for driver queries face-to-face and via telephone
- Working within a team of planners, to achieve the common goal of effectively servicing our current client base
- Planning driver's work to align to vehicle periodic maintenance and defect repairs
- Liaise with Site Managers, to obtain and provide key information such as ETAs
- Escalating any customer issues and drivers’ issues to the Transport Manager
- Any other duties assigned by the Transport manager.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Previous experience working as a Transport Planner within a busy, fast-paced transport office, (Minimum of 2 years experience in a similar role)
- Driver management
- A solid understanding of Transport operating systems
- A knowledge of tachograph regulations
- Able to organise workload in a consistent and methodical way
- Excellent interpersonal skills, relationship building and a strong communicator.
- Ability to plan, prioritise, work to deadlines, without supervision and on their own initiative
Days and Hours of Work:
- Monday - Friday 8 - 5:30 PM (Flexibility required)
- You will be required to work 1 weekend day (Saturday or Sunday) every 3 weeks. You will be compensated for this work.
Salary: €40,000 - €50,000 per year (DOE)
For a confidential discussion on this or any other current opportunity please contact David Donegan
IAC-Oct23