Transport Planner

Tarmac Trading Ltd; Colchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK construction solutions company is seeking an experienced Transport Planner to join their team in Colchester. In this role, you will ensure smooth communication with stakeholders while managing transport schedules and optimising operations. The ideal candidate should have strong communication skills and experience in a similar environment. Benefits include a bonus scheme, enhanced holiday entitlement, and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Bonus scheme

Enhanced holiday entitlement

Contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance helpline

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in working in a Transport Planner role.
• Ability to manage workload and support the team.
• Strong verbal and electronic communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily and weekly schedules including Out of Hours operations.
• Ensure smooth and cost-effective distribution of products.
• Create transport programmes to enhance fleet utilisation.

Skills

Communication skills

IT knowledge

Relationship building

Health and safety procedures experience

Job description

Are you an experienced Transport Planner looking for your next permanent role?

We're seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Transport Planner to join our welcoming team at our office in Colchester, Essex. In this role, you'll report directly to the Distribution Supervisor and play a key part in ensuring smooth communication with all stakeholders. You'll be responsible for delivering timely updates on planned responses to programme changes, as well as managing daily and weekly schedules-including Out of Hours operations.

Main responsibilities:

The role of Transport Planner is key to ensuring the smooth and cost-effective distribution of our products, while maintaining high service standards for both internal and external customers. You'll work closely with fleet teams, planners, and strategic partners to optimise transport operations and respond effectively to changing demands.

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Supporting fleet teams, transport planners, and weighbridge staff to maximise vehicle utilisation and minimise haulier queries
• Delivering excellent service and communication to internal and external customers
• Ensuring cost-effective distribution of Tarmac products
• Managing material service levels through detailed pre-planning and regular engagement with strategic customers
• Responding swiftly and efficiently to unplanned events impacting programme adherence or service delivery
• Creating transport programmes that enhance fleet utilisation and operational efficiency
• Building strong relationships with external customers to support the area's commercial strategy
• Communicating capacity plans and forward programmes clearly to all stakeholders

The role of Transport Planner is a Monday - Friday role with a rostered Saturday AM in rotation. We have core hours but start and finish times can be earlier or later around these to operate a team balance

The ideal candidate:

The idealTransport Plannerwill have experience of working in a similar role and environment as well as:

• Experience of health and safety procedures
• Ability to build working relationships with customers
• The ability to deal with stakeholders and customers of varying levels
• Experience in planning programmes of work
• Strong IT knowledge and Experience
• Ability to constantly reprioritise and manage your own workload, along with supporting the wider team
• Exceptional communication skills both verbally and in electronic format

The role is based our at Tarmac Colchester Office in Essex. The office is easily commutable from Colchester, Tiptree, West Mersea, Clacton-on-Sea, Great Bentley, Braintree, Witham, Ipswich, Sudbury, Halstead, Chelmsford and the surrounding areas

At Tarmac, who you are' matters. We want to get to know you. If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer. Tarmac is the UK's leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business. Our innovative products and solutions not only deliver the infrastructure needed to grow the UK economy today but also help to create a more sustainable built environment for the country's long-term future.

Here at Tarmac, we are working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment and it's important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.

Why Us

In addition to this rolewe also offer an extensive range of career development opportunities and industry-leading rewards, incentives and benefits including:

• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Contributory pension scheme
• Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
• Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice
• Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities inc.(REACH) Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage, LGBTQ+, Parents & carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female voice and menopause
• Training and development opportunities

Interested? Why not click here to find out more? Go on... are you ready to build your future?

Tarmac, a CRH company, is an equal opportunity employer.We arecommittedto creating aninclusivework environment for all employees andactivelyencourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please click on the apply button to complete your application.Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when this happens we sometimes bring the published closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

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Tarmac Trading Limited