Transport Planner

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Bristol, England
In-Office
Mid level
Marketing Tech • Chemical
The Role
The Transport Planner is responsible for optimizing fleet and resource assets while ensuring compliance with transport policies, addressing operational issues, and managing multi-drop deliveries efficiently.
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About the role

To contribute to the depot’s Service Delivery and Customer Experience, optimise both fleet and resource assets in delivering product to customer sites.

As an integral part of the team, you will ensure company compliance with all transport policies, legislation, and procedures. Identify operational issues, potential problems, and opportunities to improve the service and efficiency of transport operations.

You will be dealing with multi-drop deliveries & solving any issues on the road. Handle the dispatches, collections and returns

Responsibilities and Activities

  • Reviewing the order screens and plan ahead.

  • Pulling forward orders that could be released in advance of delivery day to improve vehicle utilisation.

  • Ensure the plan achieves the defined KPI parameters and respect health and safety of the team and environmental impact of the operation.

  • Dealing with Drivers within a transport office

  • Ensuring safety standards are met by drivers and vehicles.

  • Work in partnership with wider operation team.

  • Monitoring and reacting to changes, queries, and customer feedback.

  • Supporting to implement new systems,

  • Arranging haylage and managing assigned haulers relevant to the operational site. 

  • Sort Picking & Delivery notes for following day.

  • Load building for IDN transfers.

  • Printing all IDN paperwork

  • Transend- pallet check, order well export, cross ref skills

  • Booking in deliveries with customers

  • Planning meeting

  • Receiving depot deliveries (Goods in)

  • Dealing with any driver issues

  • Raising PO’s.

  • Planning for 2 days’ time – Transend/M4

 

 Your skills and experience:

  • Proven experience in a similar role.

  • Excellent time management, customer service, organisational and planning skills.

  • Strong interpersonal, written & verbal communication skills.

  • Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure.

  • Strong IT skills and attention to detail.

  • Good geographical knowledge of the Southwest

  • Thrives in working within a fast-paced environment.

  • Ability to work on their own initiative and think quickly on their feet.

  • Good transport knowledge

  • Attention to details.

  • Ability to be flexible and able to adapt to changing environment.

 

Brenntag provides equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees of all backgrounds and identities to create a workplace where difference is valued because it forms a resilient and more innovative organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds.


 

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The Company
HQ: Essen
11,289 Employees

What We Do

We are the global market leader in full-line range of chemical & ingredient products and value-added services. Our more than 17,500 employees provide tailor-made application, marketing and supply chain solutions. Our full-line portfolio comprises specialty and industrial chemicals and ingredients of a world-class supplier base. Building on our long-standing experience, unmatched global reach and local excellence, we work closely alongside our partners to make their business more successful. We operate a unique global network with about 600 locations in 72 countries.

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