Del Monte Fresh Produce Hiring for Transportation Specialist Job at Dallas, TX Full Time

Job Overview:

Responsible for overseeing the timely delivery of goods. Maintaining delivery schedules and tracking deliveries to ensure deliveries are met. Responsible for updating and providing tracking information to customers as well as to internal managers. Duties include monitoring and reporting driver issues such as accidents, safety concerns, or licensing issues.

Also responsible for analyzing the delivery costs and recommending more cost-effective methods of transportation. Responsible for negotiating contracts with outside transportation companies, assign drivers to routes, handle customer complaints, and investigate delivery issues. These may include damaged products and late or lost deliveries.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Establish company routes concentrating on customer service.

· Ensure to dispatch all company drivers.

· Ensure to receive all phone calls from drivers any hour in day.

· Ensure to track routes to assure on time deliveries to enterprise customers.

· Review and arrange all transportation paperwork inclusive of driver logs, DVIR’s, trip reports and invoices.

· Record accurately tractor mileages essential for fuel tax monthly and quarterly reporting.

· Record entire mileages for sub as well as rental equipment for Aim and Conway.

· Review driver’s hours properly and submit apt timecards to payroll.

· Perform in collaboration with Transportation Manager to enhance load capacity and reduce damaged merchandise and loading errors.

· Handle client concerns and direct problems to suitable parties.

· Prepare schedule for external backhauls as well as review external backhaul prospects.

· Record driver concerns along with policy violations and direct main issues to Transportation Manager.

· Ensure to address safety infractions along with D.O.T. violations as recorded by Safety Director to every company driver.

· Support management team to supervise transportation personnel.

· Ensure compliance to all security as well as operational procedures

Qualifications:

Required:

• 4-year College Degree, from an accredited institution, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 1 to 2 years of experience in a similar role
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills (i.e. written and oral).
• Excellent communication, problem solving, and investigation skills/abilities
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong Experience with PC spreadsheet and database applications including MS Excel, and MS Word.
• Ability to work as a team player
• Proficient in PPRO and ORICAL
• Innovation: ability to use creativity and judgment to resolve problems

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field and at least 2 to 3 years prior experience in a similar role.
• Experience in the transportation Industry
• Bilingual in Spanish would also be a plus
• At least 2 years prior experience with DOT and OSHA regulations.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $44,000.00 – $46,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Preferred)

Experience:

• Logistics: 1 year (Preferred)
• Analysis Skills: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location:

• One location

Work Remotely:

• No