Route Planning - Associate II

Clean Harbors Inc. (www.cleanharbors.com) is a NYSE listed US based $6.5 billion company. Clean Harbors was founded in 1980 near Boston by Mr. Alan S. McKim, who today remains the company’s Chairman.

Everywhere industry meets environment, Clean Harbors is on-site, providing premier environmental, energy and industrial services. Clean Harbors employs a dedicated workforce of 18,000 employees and has over 450 service locations across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Beyond addressing the environmental needs of its more than 300,000 customers, the Company has been on the front lines of addressing some of the largest emergency response events in North America of the past several decades including the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the anthrax attacks in New York, the 2015 avian flu outbreak that devastated the poultry industry, Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Sandy, and the oil pipeline breaks that affected the Yellowstone and Kalamazoo rivers, along with other major chemical releases into the environment.
Clean Harbors India has been strategically established as the Global Capability Center (GCC) to serve our parent company. We take pride in serving some of the most tech savvy business stakeholders at Clean Harbors. The GCC employees form part of our globally integrated teams that provide cutting-edge IT solutions and production support across platforms. Our shared services teams work seamlessly with their global counterparts in providing critical 24x7 support in various functions including Finance, HR, Procurement, IT and Operations. Our aggressive growth plans open significant career advancement opportunities for our employees.

Responsibilities

The Route Planner is responsible for planning, optimizing, and maintaining weekly service routes for Safety-Kleen Box and Vacuum service operations across assigned branches. The role ensures that customer services are scheduled in alignment with branch service plans, operational constraints, and service commitments while maximizing driver productivity, route attainment, and on-time performance.
Route Planners collaborate closely with branch teams to review operational capacity, manage service orders, resolve scheduling exceptions, and maintain routing accuracy within the Fleetwise routing platform.

• Plan and maintain weekly Box and Vacuum truck routes for assigned Safety-Kleen branches. 
• Balance workloads across Customer Service Groups (CSGs) to optimize driver productivity and route attainment. 
• Build and adjust daily routes within the routing platform to ensure efficient stop sequencing and balanced route capacity. 
• Ensure services are scheduled in the correct service week and day according to customer service commitments and branch routing cycles. 
• Monitor routing exceptions such as unassigned stops, over-capacity routes, and services scheduled outside their service window 

• Conduct weekly pre-dispatch calls with branches to review operational capacity and service requirements. 
  • Review key operational factors including: Truck availability and equipment downtime 
  • Driver PTO and staffing coverage 
  • Driver shortages and pool driver assignments 
  • Overdue Parts Washer (PW) and Vacuum (Vac) services 
  • Identify off-plan service requirements and determine the need for weekend routing. 

Qualifications

Experience 

• 2–5 years of experience in routing, dispatching, logistics planning, or transportation operations. 

Technical Skills 

• Route planning software (Fleetwise or equivalent) 
• Power BI reporting 
• Microsoft Excel 
• Order management systems 

Education
• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, or related field.