Senior Transport Coordinator

Culina Group; Heywood; On-site; GBP 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics provider is seeking a Senior Transport Coordinator to join their team in Heywood on a full-time, permanent basis. The role involves managing the transport operation to ensure that service levels are achieved, planning driver and vehicle resources, and overseeing the delivery and collection schedules. Responsibilities include optimizing resources, communicating across teams, and ensuring compliance with transport legislation. This position offers a salary of £35,700 per annum with rotating shifts.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing transport operations and resource planning.
• Knowledge of drivers’ hours legislation.
• Strong communication and planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee the transport operation to ensure service levels.
• Optimize resource and ensure adherence to WTD and drivers' hours legislation.
• Oversee subcontractor resources to meet delivery/collection times.
• Communicate effectively with planning and customer service teams.
• Monitor arrival and departure times for timely deliveries.

Job description

We are currently seeking aSenior Transport Coordinator to join our Transport team at our Heywood site on a full time permanent basis!

Salary:£35,700 per annum.

Shift Pattern:Any 5 in 7 days, 06:00 – 13:30, 14:00-21:30 rotating shifts.

As Senior Transport Coordinator you will manage and oversee the Transport operation, ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained. Planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery / collection times.

Key Duties of a Senior Transport Coordinator:

• Optimising resource and adherence of WTD and drivers’ hours legislation.
• Signing off and overseeing an effective transport plan to achieve on time delivery and collection performance expectations.
• Overseing own and subcontractor resource to achieve delivery / collection times, creating and updating daily run summary.
• Effectively communicating with the Planning team, Customer service, other depots and when required, directly with customer.
• Monitoringarrival and departure times, ensuring deliveries are made within the specified windows.
• Finding the best fit solution for customer collections, adhering to collection times.
• Ensuring any investigations and disciplinaries are carried out in line with company process / procedures.
• Ensuring all accidents, incidents and near misses are logged, investigated and reported.
• Carrying out colleague reviews.
• Liaising and planning drivers in for meetings / courses as required.