The Role
Plans daily vehicle collections and deliveries by routing drivers, optimizing vehicle capacity and schedules, maintaining legal compliance with driving-time regulations, and ensuring service-level adherence. Coordinates drivers, documentation, maps, returns, and delivery issues while monitoring operational data and supporting planning coverage. Requires transport planning experience, UK road-network knowledge, strong communication, attention to detail, and familiarity with transport legislation and tachograph requirements.
Summary Generated by Built In
Responsible for the organisation of drivers and vehicles to achieve optimum payload for the collection and/or delivery of vehicles. Plan daily operations to be cost effective using driver management and maintain strict legal compliance in all areas of the operation.
Transport Planning Operations
- Routing collections for designated areas incorporating deliveries and returns where possible and preferable to do so, through company owned trucks
- Plan the daily vehicle collections based on insurance company instructions
- Organise driver/vehicle run schedules for collection and/or delivery of vehicles, ensure cost effectiveness withfull capacity and compatible geographic locations, that work is evenly distributed, drivers’ hours/routes are maximised, and vehicle use is optimised at all times
- Understand and comply with all Driver processes, procedures and legislative requirements including the working time directive, organising run schedules for each driver in consideration of EU driving regulations in respect of breaks, driving limits, working time directive and rest periods
- Communicate thoroughly with our Drivers regarding their collections, returns and deliveries
- Ensure that collections and deliveries are carried out within the terms of the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA) and on collection that we are notified
- Understand all aspects of the planning department including specialist and small lorry collection processes in order to provide cover for this department as and when required
- Keep daily record of data of vehicles collected and instructed and monitor and organise all documentation to accompany each run schedule including driver check sheets, special instructions etc.
- Ensure all the correct documentation is available for the drivers prior to departing and communicate throughout the day with drivers to advise collection/delivery runs, produce maps, respond to queries and resolve problems to maintain the delivery/collection schedule. Report any issues or concerns to your line manager
- Manage instances where the owner or custodian cannot be contacted in accordance with agreed procedures
- Ensure all planning policies are followed and report any issues to your line manager
Person Specification Skills & Experience Required
- IT Literate
- Minimum 1 year experience in a planning role
- Transport Planning Experience
- Good communication skills
Knowledge
- Geographical knowledge of the UK road networks
- Transport legislation including drivers' hours/tacho
Qualifications/Certificates/Education
- GCSE’s in Math’s & English grade C or above
Personal Qualities/Other
- Attention to detail
- To be able to use own initiative as well as work as a part of a team
- A willingness to review and suggest improvements to the Drivers and vehicle routing applications
Skills Required
- IT literacy
- At least 1 year of experience in a planning role
- Transport planning experience
- Good communication skills
- Knowledge of UK road networks
- Knowledge of transport legislation, including drivers’ hours and tachograph requirements
- GCSE grade C or above in Mathematics and English
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Willingness to review and suggest improvements to driver and vehicle routing applications
RB Global Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RB Global and has not been reviewed or approved by RB Global.
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans with employer matching are highlighted in multiple postings, supporting long‑term savings for U.S. employees. Plan details are positioned as a core component of the total package and are frequently called out alongside other key benefits.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is emphasized, including accessible design features such as cashless participation and look‑back/discount mechanics. Participation is portrayed as broad and a meaningful part of total rewards across regions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off and company holidays are consistently described as part of the standard offering. Time away benefits are frequently praised as a strength that enhances overall compensation value.
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What We Do
RB Global, Inc. (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace and trusted provider of value-added insights, services and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Through its global network of auction sites and digital platform, RB Global serves customers worldwide across a variety of asset classes, including automotive, construction, commercial transportation, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining and agriculture. The company’s end-to-end marketplace solutions include Ritchie Bros., IAA, Rouse Services, SmartEquip and VeriTread. For more information about RB Global, visit rbglobal.com.
