Transportation Manager

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Transportation Manager

What Brought You Here:

• Total compensation salary range: $75,000-$90,000/yr. depending on experience.
  • Quarterly safety bonus opportunities
  • E arn additional pay based on individual and team performance with our Monthly Production Incentive Compensation Program!
• Shift Days and Hours: M-F (10+ hour shifts)
• Benefits starting DAY ONE!

Who You Are:

The Ideal candidate will have an exceptional work ethic, ability to coordinate several tasks concurrently, strong sense of urgency, and the ability to work in a very fast-paced and deadline driven environment

What You Will Be Doing:

• As a Transportation Manager, you will be responsible for coordinating and managing the most efficient loads to remain cost effective as a company with the goal of obtaining customer satisfaction while keeping all drivers safe.
• Oversees/manages the drivers, as well as the shipping, crating and packing employees (~14 total reports).
• Oversees and or conducts training of new or existing employees to include work methods and procedures, employee handbook, and safety training.
• Coordinates all jobsite and truckload deliveries with customer base, sales and production.
• Manages a company-owned truck fleet, company drivers, and third-party carriers.
• Coordinates routes by examining product dimensions and weight for each order; and identifies and evaluates any special needs for each load.
• Responsible for daily and monthly audits and reports related to fleet, fuel, risk management, driver logs, inspection reports, accident registers etc.
• Responsible for all Driver training compliance in partnership with Employee Health & Safety Manager.
• Maintain DOT Compliance through proper record keeping, training and monitoring.
• Supervises assigned personnel and maintains all necessary paperwork/records.
• Develops and maintains systems and procedures to ensure quality of customer service, inventory accuracy, optimization of storage space, and on-time delivery.
• Files freight claims for any loss or damage of inventory and notifies plant management.
• Uses the information systems to analyze, monitor, and measure the effectiveness of logistics activities and expenses.
• Maintains and improves high quality levels by ensuring that all work processes are performed correctly and accurately.

Skills You Bring :

• High School Diploma or GED required; 2-year degree preferred
• Must have a minimum of 3 years of verifiable planning/dispatching experience in the trucking industry, with 1 to 2 years in a leadership role.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word.
• Must have knowledge of DOT and Hours of Service rules and regulations.
• Must be able to multi-task, be organized, efficient, accurate and be accountable to job responsibilities.
• Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

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 you should incur a non-occupational illness or accident.

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 HSA, 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.