Fleet & Route Planner | Flexible Hours & Benefits

Gap Personnel Limited; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company events

Company pension

Free parking

Health & wellbeing programme

On-site gym

On-site parking

Referral programme

Job summary

Gap Personnel Limited, operating as an employment business, is recruiting for a Transport Planner/Fleet Manager based in Liverpool. The role focuses on planning and coordinating efficient, safe and cost-effective transport operations, managing routes, drivers, and fleet compliance to sustain high service levels.

The job requires coordinating daily vehicle schedules, driver allocation, and fleet performance, while collaborating with warehouse and customer service teams to support growth and cost

Qualifications

• Experience in transport planning and fleet management.
• Knowledge of driver working-time rules and vehicle compliance.
• Ability to plan routes and manage logistics and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Plan and optimise daily routes, collections and deliveries to meet customer and operational requirements.
• Allocate drivers and vehicles according to workload, vehicle capacity and legal requirements.
• Monitor transport activity and respond to delays, breakdowns and changes.
• Maintain accurate transport plans, delivery records and route documentation.
• Communicate with drivers, warehouse teams, customers and internal departments.
• Manage vehicle servicing, inspections, MOTs, repairs, tyres and breakdown support.
• Ensure vehicles are available, roadworthy and compliant with policy and law.
• Monitor driver hours, working-time compliance, defects and licence information.
• Maintain records for vehicles, drivers, insurance, servicing and compliance.
• Review fleet utilisation, fuel consumption, mileage and costs.
• Oversee fuel card administration and supplier arrangements; improve efficiency.
• Investigate incidents and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Route planning

Fleet management

Driver scheduling

Budgeting / cost control

Communication

Job description

Gap Personnel Limited, operating as an employment business, is recruiting for a Transport Planner/Fleet Manager based in Liverpool. The role focuses on planning and coordinating efficient, safe and cost-effective transport operations, managing routes, drivers, and fleet compliance to sustain high service levels.

The job requires coordinating daily vehicle schedules, driver allocation, and fleet performance, while collaborating with warehouse and customer service teams to support growth and cost