Artic Transport Planner

Countrystyle Recycling Ltd; Borden; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance with GP24 access

Employee Assistance Programme

Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Company Events

GymFlex salary sacrifice

Job summary

Countrystyle Recycling Ltd invites applications for an Artic Planner to develop and manage a compliant daily transport plan for the Artic fleet. You will coordinate with drivers, oversee resource availability, and work with internal teams to meet customer expectations.

The role requires strong planning, excellent communication, and proven experience in a busy transport planning environment, with a focus on efficiency and safety within a UK logistics setting.

Qualifications

• Strong organisational and planning skills required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to prioritise workload and work under pressure.
• Good geographical knowledge of London and the South East.
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Experience in a planning role in a busy transport office environment.

Responsibilities

• Review, allocate and schedule jobs for the Artic fleet using the TMS.
• Liaise with drivers regularly to ensure vehicle resources and safe operations.
• Support fleet resource optimisation to improve profitability and customer service.
• Assist with transport compliance policies, standards and procedures.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders and resolve service queries.
• Ensure fleet availability and adherence to service level agreements.
• Create and analyse Vehicle Performance Reports (VPR).
• Input waste transfer notes and weighbridge tickets into the system.

Skills

Organisational skills

Planning skills

Communication skills

Geographical knowledge (SE)

MS Office

Planning experience

Customer liaison

GCSE

Teamwork

Adaptability

Education

GCSE A-C

CPC (Desirable)

Tools

PurGo

Job description

Job Title: Artic Planner

Learn more about the general tasks related to this opportunity below, as well as required skills.

Location: Ridham Dock Road, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8SR

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Permanent, Full time

Working Hours: Monday - Friday with Saturdays on a rota basis (08:00am to 18:00pm)

About Us

Countrystyle is a member of the family-owned Heathcote Holdings Group of resource management companies and as a family run business our people and customers are at the heart of our growth and drive for passion for solution focused service.

Countrystyle Recycling offers responsible, professional, and sustainable closed-loop recycling in London, Kent and the South East. We offer a range of convenient solutions to make recyclable waste segregation easy.

About The Role

The purpose of the role is to develop a compliant, effective and profitable daily transport plan and manage fleet resources to ensure business requirements and customer satisfaction is delivered at all times.

Responsibilities

• Review, allocate and schedule jobs for the Artic fleet to maximise operational and logistical performance, using the Company's Transport Management System (TMS).
• Liaise with drivers on a regular basis throughout the day to ensure effective vehicle resources are available and ensure safe vehicle operations.
• Review and support the optimisation of fleet resources and operations to improve profitability and customer service.
• Assist the Head of Artics with transport activities, including the implementation of road transport compliance policies, standards and procedures.
• Communicate with internal stakeholders, external customers, third party vehicle suppliers and external maintenance service providers as required, and resolving all customer service queries.
• Ensure that fleet vehicles are available for scheduled services and compliant to use in all transport operations.
• Ensure that all queries within the transport operation are dealt with in a timely manner and in accordance with agreed service level agreements.
• Creation and full analysis of Vehicle Performance Reports (VPR).
• Input waste transfer notes and weighbridge tickets onto the information management system to a high level of accuracy.
• Input job requests raised via telephone and email accurately onto the TMS.
• Daily reconciliation of billing information to ensure accurate invoicing to customers using the Company TMS.
• Run daily, weekly and monthly reports from the TMS to accurately check the input data and amend accordingly.
• Liaise with Fleet Compliance and coordinate the investigation of all road transport accidents and infringements.
• Ensure that all relevant toolbox talks issued by the Compliance team are delivered to the drivers in line with Company Policy.
• Work closely with the Finance Department to ensure that all disposal invoices for transport activities are fully reconciled.
• Staff have a duty to take care of their own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by their actions at work.
• Staff must co-operate, report unsafe conditions and comply with the company management systems and safe systems of work as well as co-workers to help everyone meet their egal requirements.

Essentials

About you:

• Strong organisational and planning skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Able to prioritise workload and work under pressure.
• Good geographical knowledge of London and the South East.
• Proficient with MS Office to include Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Previous experience in a planning role in a busy transport office environment.
• Experience of dealing with internal and external customers and service providers.
• GCSE grade A-C level education.
• Demonstrate a positive and respectful attitude to others.
• Demonstrate teamwork and support of others.
• Versatility and willingness to learn.

Desirable

• Knowledge of PurGo.
• Full understanding of driver hours and driving regulations.
• Full understanding of the London lorry Control rules and regulations.
• Previous experience in the Waste industry.
• CPC.

Benefits

• Life Insurance with access to GP24
• Commitment to wellbeing through Employee Assistance Programme
• Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme for eligible employees
• Cycle to work scheme
• Company Events
• GymFlex salary sacrifice

Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa's at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Logistics Supervisor, Transport Supervisor, Artic Logistics Coordinator, Artic Transportation Manager, Freight Planner, Lorry Transport Planner, Supply Chain Coordinator may also be considered for this role