Aston Carter Hiring for Transportation Clerk Job at Dallas, TX Full Time

Our client, an industry leading E-Commerce company, is looking for Transportation Coordinator’s to help launch a new team.

Shifts:
Sunday-Wednesday 8:00am – 6:30pm CST

Wednesday-Saturday 8:00am – 6:30pm CST

Pay: $21.00 per hour

Location: 100% remote/work from home

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Continual, tactical communication with external customers (Carriers, Vendors/Suppliers) and internal customers (Retail, Finance, Software Support, Fulfillment Centers).

Excellent communication, both verbal and written as you will be required to create a narrative outlining your weekly findings and the variances to goals, and present these finding in a review forum.

Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs, while measuring and identifying activities performed.

Lead initiatives to re-engineer business processes and identify and eliminate root causes of defects in order to drive efficiency in transportation operations.

Must be able to systematically escalate problems or variance in the information and data to the relevant owners and teams and follow through on the resolutions to ensure they are delivered.

Ability to pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or other data management systems) and to perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed.

Develop performance metrics to assist with driving business results.

Ability to scope out business and functional requirements for the tech teams who create and enhance the software systems and tools we use.

Must be able to quickly understand the business impact of the trends and make decisions that make sense based on available data.

Fielding escalations from dispatchers, drivers and customers. Ex. Pepsi and Coca Cola will reach out and ask where their drivers.

Fielding external calls from stake holders

Service transportation execution is the main thing they do. Sometimes they need to find assets out there for given trips. Main part of their job and there’s a lot of ambiguity in the day to day where they have to shuffle to different tasks.

Service level agreement to respond to customers in a specified time (2-4 hours max)

Definitely need to have customer facing skills. Cannot go off on customers and will look for interpersonal skills heavily.

Instant messaging internal stake holders to effectively execute these movements, in yards, in customers yards, and on the road nationally.

Will help coordinate shipments and problem solve to get trucks to customers quicker if one breaks down or is lost in transit.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

An ideal candidate has a background in transportation and excellent program management skills.

He/she has the ability to pull and analyze data with ease, drive process improvements, standardize our processes and eliminate the root cause of defects within the current systems.

This job will require exceptional communication skills while having the ability to work independently in a high pressure environment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

A completed Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university, or equivalent experience

MS Office experience required, with intermediate level in Excel

Knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies

Must be flexible to work some weekend shifts as needed.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Degree in Engineering, Operations, Logistics or related field

2+ years’ work experience in logistics/transportation industry

Expertise in MS Access and SQL

Proficiency in Lean and Six Sigma

Experience in manufacturing, transportation, customer service, and/or distribution environments.

Data management & data quality control experience with experience pulling and analyzing large sets of data

Demonstrated experience using data to drive root cause elimination and process improvement.

A self-starter who loves data and who enjoys spotting the trends in it!

About Aston Carter:
Aston Carter is a distinguished global provider of recruitment and staffing services to companies requiring highly specialized business professionals. As a Best of Staffing® Client and Talent leader, Aston Carter has an unrivaled commitment to delivering first class service to clients and business professionals across a variety of disciplines, including Accounting and Finance as well as Governance, Risk and Compliance. With more than 60 offices across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America, Aston Carter provides local, regional and global expertise to drive value and meet our customers’ unique needs. Aston Carter is a division of Aerotek. Aerotek is an operating company of Allegis Group, a global talent solutions provider.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.