As Planning Manager you will proactively lead and manage the Local Planning Team, delivering a transport plan that effectively deploys the company’s transport assets. This plan should deliver compliance with relevant legislation, company procedures meets customer requirements and generate profit to the business.
Working hours: Monday to Friday days, 08.00-18.00 (45 hour week).
Salary: £38,950 per annum
Key Duties of a Planning Manager:
- Manage the Daily Transport Plan (COP024) by ensuring Team Leaders carry out daily duties.
- Daily analysis of the P&L for each of their team’s planning boards
- Regular monitoring of Empty Legs information
- Regular monitoring of ISOTRAK's group analysis screen for their team resource pool
- Monitoring status boards for the national fleet analysing booked, planned and completed jobs
- Liaising with Team Leaders to ensure data requirements for GTS are complete. Advise on any remedial action if data is missing
- Gathering all relevant information on outstanding work in allocated traffic areas and communicate ‘state of play’ during conference calls
- Working alongside Team Leaders to assist where possible all traffic areas that have work outstanding
- Liaising with Transport Managers via conference call to ensure DOT and other issues are monitored. With remedial action put into place should it be needed
- Briefing planning teams with all relevant information from UK Transport conference calls
- Provide leadership and guidance to the planning team and individual planners by:
- Liaising with Team Leaders in relation to WTD, time lapse reports and restricted parking.
- Analysing all WTD information for the team’s resource pool. Discussing all excess hours with individual planners and inform Operations of all intended actions (COP 109)
- Ensuring that the agency / casual tracker is up to date with any manpower used for the previous shift
- Controlling the management of absence and holidays for the team
- Ensuring critical information is flowing by updating the intranet / notice-boards
- Ensuring that all training needs are met for the planners and the Team Leaders (including inductions, re-training, GTS, ISOTRAK)
- Delivering improved organisation capability through the Appraisal and 1-1 process.