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Transport Planning Recruitment in Brighouse

Permanent transport planning and management recruitment across Yorkshire.

Yorkshire

A transport recruitment desk for Brighouse

Transport planning is judged on cost per drop, vehicle utilisation and on-time delivery. We recruit people who move those numbers.

Transport vacancies across Yorkshire come from retail and grocery distribution, rail-linked intermodal operators, manufacturing supply chains and regional 3PLs. Each needs people who can plan for cost and compliance at once.

A planner who leaves after a few months takes the knowledge of your routes and customers with them. Getting the hire right protects both.

The strongest transport candidates across Yorkshire are usually already planning for operators at sites such as iPort Doncaster, Wakefield Europort and the distribution parks along the M62 and M1.

Roles on our desk

Planning, compliance and fleet roles

Permanent roles across the traffic office, from planners to transport managers.

What you can expect

Planners who stay and improve the plan

A shortlist you can use

A short list of people who fit the fleet, with notes on systems, network and results.

Traffic offices for new contracts

For a new contract we can recruit the planners and the manager together, timed to the start date.

Through the first months

We keep in touch through notice periods and the first months, while a new planner learns your customers.

What good planners cost

What transport planners and managers earn in Brighouse

Indicative permanent salaries in Brighouse run from around £28k for planners up to £55k+ for senior transport managers.

Our benchmarks use current offers for comparable fleets rather than old salary surveys. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.

How it works

Our process, step by step

The search

Planners and managers who are looking and those who are not, approached with the details that matter to them.

The shortlist

A short list with notes on each candidate's fleet, systems and results.

Settling in

We check in during the first months so any early issue is raised and resolved.

Your brief

Getting the brief right

Good planners become transport managers. Hiring well now builds the succession plan.

Notice periods for transport managers can be long, so we plan the handover from the first call.

A strong transport brief covers:

  • The number and type of vehicles planned
  • The network: trunking, multi-drop, pallet or dedicated
  • Hours, nights and on-call expectations
  • Your interview process and any planning exercise
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Transport FAQs

The detail

Do you recruit transport planners in Brighouse?

Yes. We recruit permanent transport planners, schedulers and transport managers for operators across Yorkshire.

Do transport managers need a CPC?

Yes. GOV.UK says you need the Transport Manager Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) to become a transport manager. Operators with a standard national or international operator's licence need a transport manager.

How do you check transport candidates?

We confirm qualifications such as the Transport Manager CPC, check right to work and ask about the fleets, networks and systems they have run.

Do you recruit for operators outside Brighouse?

Yes. We cover operators across Yorkshire & the Humber. Tell us where the traffic office is and we will search the commute around it.

Do you also recruit drivers?

Yes. Our driver desk recruits permanent HGV and LGV drivers and our temporary driving desk supplies cover.

Keep reading

Related transport pages for Brighouse

Transport planning recruitment elsewhere in Yorkshire & the Humber:

Other specialisms in Brighouse:

See our national Transport Planning Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Brighouse.

Hiring a planner in Brighouse?

Find the planner your office needs

Give us the role and we will shortlist people who have already planned a fleet like yours.