Dairy Planner

**Title**
Dairy Planner (Scheduler)

**Categories**
VIC Opportunities

**Location**
Geelong

**Job Summary**
As a result of business growth, our dairy planning team is growing We are looking for motivated and safety focused **_Transport Specialists _**that thrive to drive efficiencies for operations, develop a deep understanding of the regional challenges and have a genuine interest to deliver business imperatives for day to day operations. The role is full-time, and ideally based in Geelong.

**Joining our **_Dairy Optimisation Planning_** team, this role will entail but is not limited to: *
- Maintaining the master data used for route optimisation;
- Optimisation of routes on a day-to-day basis to produce safe and efficient runs;
- Working with Operations Managers to ensure optimised routes meet various business rules including vehicle, geographical and time constraints;
- Liaising with Farm suppliers and Operations Managers to accommodate changes to collection patterns;
- Liaising with customers to plan and adjust factory delivery schedules;
- Maintenance of the milk collection database to enable daily customer reporting and internal invoicing;
- Reconciliation of variances between planned routes and collections and actual routes and collections;
- Documentation of systemic route optimisation issues and work alongside staff and software vendor to resolve them.
- About you*

You will be passionate about safety, have a strong work ethic while delivering great customer service, asset utilisation, and business improvement.

**To be successful in this dynamic role you will have**:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to work within a team environment as well as autonomously.
- A high level of computer literacy and attention to detail.
- A solid understanding of OH&S and Chain of Responsibility Regulations.
- The ability to work on a rotating roster, such as such as 5 days-on/2 days-off/5 days-on/4 days-off or similar.
- An undergraduate Degree in Supply Chain Management and Logistics, or similar, will be highly regarded.
- About the offer*
- An attractive full-time salary package
- Interesting and challenging work, with a focus on commercial decision-making and adding value to the business;
- On-going formal and real-world training;
- Ability to negotiate flexible working arrangements
- A dedication to employee wellbeing including healthy eating programs and our on-site gym;
- 24 hour employee assistance program;
- Secure full-time position in an ‘essential service’ industry.