Permanent transport planning and management recruitment across the South East.
The transport manager is responsible for the operator's compliance. That is why we check the qualification before anything else.
Operations at sites such as the M3, M4 and M20 corridors and the airfreight hubs at Gatwick and Heathrow plan around delivery slots, drivers' hours and vehicle availability. We match planners to that reality.
We ask candidates which routing software they use, how many vehicles they plan and what they have done about empty miles.
With the M25, M3, M4, M20 and M23, Gatwick Airport and the ports at Southampton, Portsmouth and Dover running through the region, transport planners across the South East often plan national as well as local work.
Permanent roles across the traffic office, from planners to transport managers.
We benchmark salary, on-call pay and bonus against the local market before the role goes out.
We look for managers who treat drivers' hours, maintenance and loading rules as part of the job, not paperwork.
We keep in touch through notice periods and the first months, while a new planner learns your customers.
Indicative permanent salaries in Deal run from around £28k for planners up to £55k+ for senior transport managers.
Transport office pay in the South East moves with the size of the fleet, the network and the hours: night planning and on-call usually pay more. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
Planners and managers who are looking and those who are not, approached with the details that matter to them.
We help settle salary, hours and start date so the offer is accepted first time.
We check in during the first months so any early issue is raised and resolved.
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:
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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.
On GOV.UK's list, a transport manager makes sure drivers have a valid licence, vehicles are taxed, insured, properly maintained and have a valid MOT, vehicles are loaded safely and not overloaded, drivers do not speed or break the drivers' hours rules and the operator does not break safety rules.
We confirm qualifications such as the Transport Manager CPC, check right to work and ask about the fleets, networks and systems they have run.
Yes. Our driver desk recruits permanent HGV and LGV drivers and our temporary driving desk supplies cover.
Upload your CV and tell us the fleet size, network and systems you know. We contact you when a permanent role fits.
Transport planning recruitment elsewhere in the South East:
Other specialisms in Deal:
See our national Transport Planning Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Deal.
Send the vacancy and we will flag anything in the pay, hours or advert likely to slow the search.