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Transportation Specialist

Del Monte Fresh Produce Company NA Inc

Location: Plant City, FL 33567
Type: Full-Time, Non-Remote
Posted on: August 23, 2021
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Transportation Specialist
Del Monte Fresh Produce Company NA Inc
Plant City, FL 33567
Full-time
Job details
Job Type
Full-time
Full Job Description Purpose of Position:
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.
Accountabilities:
• 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
Minimum Skills 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
***Please note: This position does not qualify for relocation expenses.***
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DEL MONTE FRESH PRODUCE IS AN EEO/AA/V/H
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