Job Title: City Planner
Job Description
The City Planner is responsible for preparing the next days city pickup and delivery plan for an afternoon operation. This role coordinates drivers, equipment, and dock labour to ensure all routes, appointments, and resources are organized and ready for a smooth and efficient morning operation.
Responsibilities
- Plan daily city pickup and delivery (P&D) routes, including appointments, driver start times, and equipment requirements.
- Coordinate capacity for 5-ton trucks, tractors, and contracted carriers to meet service and volume demands.
- Monitor inbound trailers throughout the day, obtain updated shipment and scheduling information, and accurately update TruckMate or similar transportation management systems.
- Prepare daily planning reports, driver schedules, and dock labour requirements to support the next days operation.
- Collaborate closely with dispatch and dock supervision to identify potential service concerns and ensure the following days plan is realistic and executable.
- Manage time-sensitive information, appointments, and service-sensitive freight to protect service levels and customer commitments.
- Perform administrative support and data entry tasks related to routing, dispatch, and logistics planning.
- Provide responsive customer support and communication to internal stakeholders regarding city planning, routing changes, and operational updates.
Essential Skills
- Minimum 2 years of experience in LTL dispatch, routing, or city planning.
- Proven experience planning 2050 or more daily stops in a city pickup and delivery environment.
- At least 1 year of experience coordinating drivers, tractors, 5-ton vehicles, or third-party carriers.
- Experience managing appointments, schedules, and service-sensitive freight in a logistics or transportation setting.
- Hands-on experience with TruckMate or a similar transportation management system (TMS).
- Experience in dispatch, customer service, logistics, customer support, or operations within a transportation or freight environment.
- Strong administrative support and data entry skills with a high level of accuracy.
- Effective communication skills for coordinating with drivers, dispatch, dock staff, and office teams.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple routes, appointments, and resource requirements.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Experience with dock labour planning and allocation.
- Terminal or cross-dock operations experience.
- Carrier management experience, including coordinating and overseeing contracted carriers.
- Strong Excel and reporting skills for building and maintaining planning and performance reports.
- Strong interpersonal skills to work collaboratively with dispatch, dock supervision, and office teams.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, time-sensitive logistics environment.
Work Environment
This is an on-site, Monday to Friday role based in an office and dispatch environment. The standard schedule is 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM, totaling a 40-hour workweek with an 8-hour shift that includes scheduled breaks. You will work closely with a dispatch team of approximately three people and an office team of about fifteen, providing regular interaction and cross-collaboration across departments. Parking is available on-site. Work boots are required as part of the dress code due to proximity to operational and dock areas. The organization offers exposure to a large, expanding company with opportunities for growth and progression, cross-department collaboration, extended health and benefits upon full-time employment, and merit increases each year.
Job Type & LocationThis is a Contract position based out of Surrey, BC.
Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $24.00 - $26.00/hr.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Job Type & LocationThis is a Contract position based out of Surrey, BC.
Workplace TypeThis is a fully onsite position in Surrey,BC.
À propos d'Aston Carter
Aston Carter fournit des solutions de talent de classe mondiale à des milliers de clients à travers le monde. Spécialisés dans la comptabilité, la finance, les ressources humaines, lacquisition de talents, les achats, la chaine dapprovisionnement, et certaines professions administratives, nous étendons les capacités des entreprises à la pointe de lindustrie. Nous nous appuyons sur notre profonde expertise en matière de recrutement et sur notre vaste réseau pour répondre aux besoins évolutifs de nos clients et de notre communauté de talents avec agilité et excellence. Avec des bureaux aux États-Unis, au Canada, en Asie et en Europe, Aston Carter est au service dun grand nombre dentreprises du classement Fortune 500. Nous sommes fiers davoir remporté la désignation « Prix Platine » dans le cadre des prix Best of Staffing® Client et Talent décernés par ClearlyRated.
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About Aston Carter
Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options.
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