Transport Planner - Bridgwater

Morrisons; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading supermarket as a Planner in the Transport Team at the Bridgwater Distribution Centre. In this role, you will be responsible for scheduling drivers and ensuring efficient delivery operations while maintaining safety compliance. Morrisons values your expertise in enhancing operational efficiencies and offers excellent benefits including discounts, holidays, and career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Six weeks holiday including bank holidays.

15% employee discount.

Career progression opportunities.

Subsidised staff canteen.

Healthcare benefits.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and analytical skills.
• Experience in planning for transport operations is desirable.
• Strong influencing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Produce Driver schedules aligning with transport plans.
• Manage resources for cost-effective delivery services.
• Analyze plans against actual schedules for enhancements.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Operational Efficiency

Influencing

Tools

Paragon Planning System

Job description

We’ve got a fantastic opportunity for a Planner to join the Transport Team at our Willow Green (Bridgwater) Distribution Centre. Reporting to the Planning Manager you will be responsible for producing individual Driver schedules that will implement the overall Transport plan for the Willow Green (Bridgwater) operation.

Here at Morrisons our Transport Planners do the following:

• Ensure all deliveries and collections are in line with planned requirements.
• Provide problem solving guidance on any operational issues such as late changes to plans and compliance with policies and procedures
• Plan and manage resources to deliver a cost effective delivery service.
• Produce individual plans for particular drivers within an overall plan.
• Analyse the plan against actual schedules to understand areas of improvement.
• Maintain compliance and conformance for safe working practices and working time regulations.
• Ensure policies and procedures are followed at all times.
• Ensure the completion of all associated records and reports and highlight any inaccuracies, issues or complaints
• Proactively identify opportunities for improved operational efficiencies
• Organising shunters and ensuring that vehicles and trailers are available when needed.

About you

To be successful you should have excellent communication and analytical skills and experience of producing reports.

Experience of planning a large and successful transport operation along with an understanding of planning system Paragon would be advantageous.

Applicants must be a strong influencer and capable of credible, impactful interventions; working to direct or motivate. If you are interested in taking on a new challenge and have the skills to strengthen our team further, then we want to hear from you.

In return for your hard work we will offer you:

• Six weeks holiday (including bank holidays).
• 15% discount in our stores available from the day you join us.
• Additional 10% discount More Card for a friend or family member.
• Career progression and development opportunities.
• Subsidised staff canteen.
• Free parking.Market leading pension and life assurance.
• Healthcare/Well-being benefits including Aviva Digital GP.
• Morrisons MyPerks with discounts at high street shops, cinemas and gyms, and lots more.
• Long Service Awards.Optional Payroll charity donations.
• Enhanced Family/maternity/parental leave

About us

From a Bradford market stall to the UK’s 4th largest supermarket chain and the UK's 2nd largest fresh food manufacturer. We are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK in over almost 500 stores and an online home delivery service.

Our 18 manufacturing sites provide our customers with the freshest produce from flowers, fish and veg to burgers and bread, all delivered to our stores via our 7 warehouse / logistics distribution sites by our 2,000 strong fleet. Every week, 11 million customers pass through our doors and around 97,000 colleagues across the business work hard each day to deliver great service to them. We cover more than 11 million households with our Morrisons.com service.

With competitive, permanently low prices we are committed to helping our customers save money every day. We are foodmakers and shopkeepers and #wemakemorrisons.

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