Permanent transport planning and management recruitment across Scotland.
Transport planning is judged on cost per drop, vehicle utilisation and on-time delivery. We recruit people who move those numbers.
Across Scotland, many transport offices sit at sites such as Eurocentral — one of the UK's largest rail-connected freight parks — Bellshill and the M8 distribution belt. We search for planners and managers who already know that market.
Night planning, early starts and on-call cover suit different people. The hours are one of the first things we ask about.
Across Scotland, planners and transport managers are hired by retail and grocery distribution, food, drink and whisky supply chains, energy logistics and national 3PLs.
From night planners to heads of transport.
The Transport Manager CPC and any other qualifications the role needs are confirmed before a candidate reaches your shortlist.
We ask which routing and scheduling systems candidates use every day, so there is no hidden learning curve.
We keep in touch through notice periods and the first months, while a new planner learns your customers.
Indicative permanent salaries in Greenock run from around £28k for planners up to £55k+ for senior transport managers.
Transport managers usually earn more than planners and national networks more than local ones. Local competition can move either figure. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
For transport manager roles, the Transport Manager CPC is confirmed before anything else.
A short list with notes on each candidate's fleet, systems and results.
We arrange interviews and any planning exercise, then brief each candidate beforehand.
A permanent planner learns your customers, your drivers and your routes. That knowledge makes every week's plan better.
We ask candidates why they left their last traffic office. The answer tells us whether yours will keep them.
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.
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. We cover operators across Scotland. Tell us where the traffic office is and we will search the commute around it.
Yes. We recruit fleet managers and maintenance controllers who look after vehicle compliance and cost.
GOV.UK describes an internal transport manager as employed by a single operator and an external transport manager as a freelance manager working for more than one operator.
Transport planning recruitment elsewhere in Scotland:
Other specialisms in Greenock:
See our national Transport Planning Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Greenock.
Send the vacancy and we will flag anything in the pay, hours or advert likely to slow the search.