Logical Personnel Solutions is recruiting on behalf of a leading industrial services and logistics organisation.

We are recruiting for an Operations Co-ordinator in Knutsford. 

The Role: 

Reporting to the Head of Operations the Operations Co-ordinator is responsible for arranging, coordinating, and tracking waste movements/shipments whilst ensuring the required legal paperwork is completed correctly, received & saved to ensure compliance within the relevant regulations.

The key responsibilities in brief: 

• Planning and setting up jobs and allocating work to customers and hauliers.
• Uploading or creating jobs within SAP/WR1.
• Communicating and/or escalating issues, price changes, surcharges in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Working with an open and proactive mindset, continually looking to achieve and improve on the operational goals of productivity, profitability, efficiency, proactivity and effective communication.
• Caretaking all aspects (e.g. bookings, documentation, communications etc) of all loads on allocated routes from collection to delivery.
• Utilising SAP/WR1 to record all jobs, and with attention to details ensuring all costs and charges are correctly and accurately recorded therein.
• Ensuring that all hauliers are authorised throughout the supply chain.
• Ensuring that all paperwork is accurately generated, sent and received and filed using a standardised format. Carrying out audits/checks to ensure this is the case, and highlighting issues when spotted.
• Resolving queries with producers, hauliers, and disposal sites.
• Confirming collection requirements from disposal sites.
• Booking/confirming delivery slots with disposal sites.
• Making decisions that maximise loads and profitability, including using preferred hauliers and referencing back to the required haulier mix.
• Proactively monitoring activities to anticipate issues as early as possible, and taking steps to resolve and/or communicate to the Head of Operations.

Ideally you will have: 

• Minimum of 1 year’s working experience in the waste industry.
• Experience with the transfrontier shipment (TFS) regulations.
• Customs clearance experience post-Brexit.
• Experience and proficiency in using Microsoft Office applications and ideally SAP/WR1

Additional info: 

• Full time role 
• 37.5hrs p/wk - some flexitime may be required
• Hybrid working introduction expected Sept '24

For more info, please contact Marc at Logical