Route Planner (Last-Mile Deliveries)

You'll plan the loads and watch the trucks for a distribution depot in Middelburg (MP), keeping every trip on time. You don't need to be the loudest person in the room, just the one others can count on.

This post is Middelburg (MP)-based, with most of your time spent at a distribution depot.

• Arrange breakdown recovery and replacement vehicles
• Phone drivers when trucks stop too long or go off-route
• Update customers on delivery times and delays
• Compile daily reports on trips completed and late deliveries
• Plan daily loads to use full truck capacity
• Assign trucks and drivers to routes and track them on telematics
• Check driver hours so nobody drives too long without rest

• Good with Excel and email
• Calm and decisive when things go wrong
• Able to work shifts in a 24-hour control office
• At least 2 years in transport or logistics

• Previous truck driving experience
• Experience on a vehicle telematics platform

• Growth to transport manager
• Training on the fleet and tracking systems
• Office-based work with a steady roster
• Cellphone allowance for standby shifts

• Give the fleet size and route types you handled, for example "40 trucks, long-haul and local". Hiring managers want scale.
• If you drove trucks before, say so. Controllers who know the road earn quick respect from drivers.