Transport Planner

Story Contracting


Date: 1 day ago
City: Carlisle, England
Contract type: Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for a Transport Planner to begin their story with Story Plant Ltd. We are looking for someone who embodies our values of being hardworking, grounded, and proud of the work they do.

Location is flexible across our operating depots in Carlisle, Doncaster and Birmingham.

As Transport Planner you will use your excellent organisational skills to oversee the day-to-day operations of the transport provision for Story, ensuring that Plant allocation and haulage is carried out effectively and efficiently, meeting our customer needs and legal requirements.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Experience of Plant and haulage
  • CPC certified - desirable
  • Excellent regional geographic knowledge
  • Good working knowledge of Construction and Rail industry - desirable
  • Experience in resource management
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on continuous improvement.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.


Why Story Plant?

At Story Plant, we invest in our people. We provide award-winning training and development opportunities for all colleagues to help you get to where you want to be in your career.
We offer an excellent working environment along with competitive pay, hybrid working, matched Company pension contributions, help towards healthcare costs, national retail discounts and access to our cycle to work scheme.
We care about our communities too and offer our employees two paid days for volunteering each year to spend as a team or individually.

Every Story Matters

We are proud to be a place where everyone can be part of the Story!

As part of our pledge to eliminate discrimination and encourage diversity among our Story Team, our ‘Every Story’ policy ensures all employees are a part of a diverse environment and always feel included.

All applicants will receive careful consideration for employment regardless of who you are, where you come from or what you believe in.

Think you’d be a good fit?
Apply today to start your story or email [email protected] to arrange an informal chat to learn more about the role.

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