Transportation Manager

Transportation Manager

Who You Are :

You are a positive and approachable leader focused on productivity, quality standards and employee recognition. By using a customer-centric approach, you hold yourself and your team accountable to meet deadlines, manage time effectively and make data-driven decisions. To be successful, you must adapt to the changing business environment and departmental needs and changes as well as inter-departmental, general business and customer communication and confidentiality.

Why You Are Here :

$75,000 to $80,000 / year

Quarterly Incentive Compensation Bonus Plan based on company performance.

Quarterly safety bonus opportunities

Day Shift : Monday to Friday

Benefits starting DAY ONE!

Skills You Bring :

Bachelor’s Degree in Logistics, Business Management, or equivalent work experience

Must have a minimum of 3 years’ verifiable planning / dispatching experience in the trucking industry, with 1 to 2 years in a leadership role.

Must have knowledge of DOT and Hours of Service rules and regulations.

Experience with computer-based dispatching systems

Must be able to multi-task, be organized, efficient, accurate and be accountable to job responsibilities.

Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Working knowledge of Excel, Word, and Email

Heavy phone experience

CDL preferred.

What You Will Do :

Manages a company-owned truck fleet, company drivers, and third-party carriers.

Establishes productivity and quality standards and appraise individual and team performance.

Ensure all employees receive proper training and that they are working safely each day.

Maintains a clean and organized (5S) work environment.

Develops and maintains systems and procedures to ensure quality of customer service, inventory accuracy, optimization of storage space, and on-time delivery.

Ensures shipping operations, customer requirements, and DOT procedures are in compliance.

Manages and schedules all outbound shipments and coordinates with sales and production.

Process all internal / external paperwork in accordance with procedures.

Files freight claims for any loss or damage of inventory and notifies plant management.

Assists with the tracing and / or expediting of customer orders.

Identifies and implements improvements to warehouse processes and procedures for optimizing cost reductions, customer service, productivity, and safety enhancements.

Uses the information systems to analyze, monitor, and measure the effectiveness of logistics activities and expenses.

Provides reports and analyses to support cycle counting and inventory accuracy functions.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Why Trulite :

Trulite offers the most comprehensive benefit coverage in the industry. We give our employees immediate access to health, dental, vision and life insurance benefits , as well as provide short / long-term disability coverage to protect you financially if injured outside of work.

We are pleased to offer a comprehensive wellness initiative that includes access to a progressive financial training program.

Stay with us for a year and your 401k employer match is 100% vested and immediately becomes part of your ever improving financial plan. This is also true for those who select and contribute to their Health Savings Account . We match on both employee and family coverage to help cover out-of-pocket expenses and if unused continues to grow until needed. The employer match for your HAS, if you choose to participate, is also vested immediately at 100% improving your financial health.

Trulite bears most of the cost of your benefits. We structured these benefits because we care not only about your physical well-being but your financial health and welfare too. Let us show you why Trulite values you as an employee and how we will help you achieve financial independence.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.