Traffic Planner

Traffic Planner

Location: Whitfield, Dover

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per anum dependant on experience

Hours: Monday – Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturdays – occasional for inspections etc

Full time, permanent position

About Active Transport

From humble beginnings in 2000, Active Transport has grown to become the road cargo transport and logistics solution of choice for many forwarding companies and suppliers alike looking for a reliable carrier.

Our headquarters are based in Dover, UK. This perfectly positions us for shipping allowing us to make the best use of our equipment.

The Role

• To organise the day to day planning of our HGV’s in UK and Europe.
• Pricing jobs and quoting.
• Driver paperwork/records
• Monitor the daily activities, problem solving.
• Maintaining good relationship with Drivers/customers/suppliers
• Liaison with customers/suppliers, ensuring deliveries etc are made on time.
• Managing the drivers along with fuel efficiency
• Custom procedures Import/Export/GVMS
• Creating GMR’s and sending import security info to various customs agencies
• Booking deliveries/collections
• Cab inspections, inventories.
• General admin

Skills and Qualifications

• Previous experience in planning HGV’s
• Good knowledge of Tacho laws and Driver Hours legislation
• Commercial awareness of export and import pricing
• PC competent and good geographical knowledge.
• Ideally forklift experience

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Active Transport, please do not hesitate to apply.