Transport Planner

The Transport Planner is responsible for planning, organizing, and overseeing daily transportation activities to ensure efficient, cost-effective, and timely delivery of goods. This role acts as the central communication point between carriers, warehouses, suppliers, and customers, ensuring smooth execution of all transport operations.

Tasks and Responisbilities

• Create deliveries & shipments for every outbound activity
• Calculate loading meters and timely book transport to ensure a timely delivery
• Schedule transport on requested loading date and inform customer about the ETA of the shipment
• Follow up very closely the status of the shipments to load:
  • Content of the shipment, will all materials be available on the moment of loading?  If not, take action together with colleagues of production/purchase
  • Arrival of the driver, if a driver is too late, take action in order to check the real time of arrival and communicate with the warehouse.
  • Arrival of the driver at assembly site, if a driver will be late, inform the project manager and try to inform him/her with a new eta.
• Follow-up & reschedule missed deliveries & loadings
• Prepare and verify the required transport documents, including export documentation where needed
• Coordinate the customs formalities for every export delivery with our logistics partner
• Coordinate the outbound activities in the warehouse
• Handle transport complaints in close cooperation with the Quality Department

Qualifications

• You have a bachelor's degree in logistics or economics (or related) or equivalent through experience
• You have a first experience in transport coordination, logistics, planning, or warehouse operations.
• You have a strong knowledge of transport regulations and documentation.
• You have proficiency with TMS systems, ERP platforms and MS office. Proficiency with SAP is a plus.
• You are an excellent communicator with good problem-solving skills.
• You are able to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• You have experience with international shipments and customs procedures, or you are willing to develop your knowledge in this matter.
• Knowledge of route optimization and cost‑saving strategies is a plus.
• You have an interest / affinity in working in a technical environment
• In addition to Dutch, you have a fluent knowledge of English (spoken and written)

Additional Information

Unsolicited representations by third parties (recruitment agencies, headhunters, ...) of CVs via mail and/or telephone for our vacancies are considered as direct applications where no compensation is provided to the third party. 
Any T&Cs from these third parties will not be accepted unless upon signature of the T&Cs by a person in charge of HR.
Candidates remain registered in the system for 12 months and cannot be proposed again during this period.