Transport Planner at Sappi

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We are hiring! 

• At Sappi, we are a leading global provider with a reputation for delivering high-quality sustainable Woodfibre products and solutions for the global markets. We lead through our values centred around integrity, courage, making smart decisions which we execute with speed. We are seeking unique people who believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.
• We're on the lookout for an experienced Transport Planner to create and optimise the daily transport plan and ensure that the plan is loaded and communicated on the required platforms.
• To ensure visibility of the fleet and its targets. To facilitate live tracking of hourly, daily, weekly and monthly progress against plan. To maintain and ensure accuracy of systems and its functionality.

As a Transport Planner you will be responsible for:

• Plan fleet utilisation and ensure that contractor operations are optimized for transport efficiencies and reducing downtime
• Verify transport routes for contractor to eliminate potential downtime and fleet efficiencies
• Generate daily operational plans for contractor for the dispatching of trucks and loaders in order to maximise fleet efficiency
• Load daily plans into various tracking and monitoring software platforms i.e. Quartex and Mixtelematics
• Ensure visibility of fleets and live tracking through various platforms
• Determine route standards for trips (including backhaul information) by monitoring tracking information using Mixtelematics to ensure compliance to contractor key performance indicators (KPI)
• Monitor, flag, report compliance to route standards and all other transport contract KPI’s that affect overall efficiencies of fleets and deliveries to marke
• Enforce respective mill quality specifications and ensure all in-spec timber reported complies with market requirements with regards to timber specifications, physical attributes and housekeeping requirements
• Enforce route standards on all deliveries to markets and manage deviations to ensure compliance
• Capture daily, weekly and monthly plans are captured accurately in the various platforms to ensure seamless and accurate tracking, reporting
• Calculate fuel efficiencies of fleets based on their fuel consumptions
• Monitor and track daily, weekly, and monthly fuel usage from fleets
• Ensure all systems are up to date with various improvements and software updates
• Liaise with programmers and IT to continuously improve functionality and reporting capabilities
• Ensure all plans comply and highlight operational safety issues
• Validate plan to ensure all depots and loading sites are safe and is conducive for safe transporting activities
• Reconcile sales vs orders per contractor daily by drawing relevant Timber Control System (TCS) reports to ensure all contractor orders are completed
• Verify timber sales as per TCS report to ensure all loads are captured
• Maintain transport contractor uptime reports weekly to ensure compliance to contractor KPI
• Verify depot to market leads with GIS/Contractors by monitoring tracking to ensure compliance with KPI’s
• Calculate rejection costs as and when rejections occur using the reject cost calculator to ensure the costs are recovered from the relevant contractor
• Verify delivery notes timber despatch advice (TDA’s) against small market sales reflected in Timber Control System (TCS) to ensure all loads are captured
• Provide Transport Manager with verified uptime reports and loading tons timeously for monthly invoicing
• Manages Transport controllers and the execution of their duties

What are we looking for?

• Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Transportation, or a related field
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or other for algorithm development and automation.
• Up to 3 years’ relevant experience

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to work within a global organisation that continues to thrive in a rapidly changing world even after 80 years of existence.
• Learning and development programmes to fast-track your career within Sappi.
• Opportunities to travel (dependent on upon the role).
• Market leading leave benefits.
• Employee wellbeing benefits.