Local Planner

Job Description

Job Description

The Role at a Glance

The Local Planner coordinates and dispatches daily local jobs, ensuring efficient crew assignments, paperwork accuracy, and communication with teams and customers. This role supports operations through morning dispatch, equipment and uniform compliance, labor management, and data updates. 

 

How You’ll Contribute

As a Local Planner, you will coordinate daily operations by working closely with customers, agents, sales staff, and internal teams to ensure moves are executed efficiently and on time. You’ll manage morning dispatch and crew assignments, playing a key role in the day’s logistics.

 

You will review paperwork with crews and ensure compliance with uniform standards and equipment cleanliness. Hosting daily huddles, proofreading documentation for auditing, and maintaining strong communication with crews and customer service coordinators are essential parts of your day-to-day responsibilities. You’ll also monitor alerts and address any non-conformance issues as they arise.

 

Keeping current data related to quality, claims, and safety will also be part of your duties. You will also help support company standards and performance goals.

 

Additional duties may be assigned depending on your warehouse, the time of year, and the needs of your team. 

 

Qualifications, Skills, and Functional Job Requirements

Education/Work Experience/Certificates

• Two to four years of experience in the moving and storage industry
• Solid understanding of the geographical area
• Knowledge and understanding of truck sizes, types, and functions
• Fluent in English (written and verbal) with the ability to converse in Spanish 

 

Core Skills

• Customer Focused, Collaborative, Communicative, Resilient, Strive for inclusion of others

 

Functional Job Requirements

• Must be able to regularly move around the office. Must be able to go back and forth between the office and the warehouse in varying temperatures. Must be able to physically check/inspect trucks. Must also be able to operate a computer and process paperwork for an extended period of time. While this is a standard in-office Monday to Friday role, you will be required to work one Saturday per month. Additional Saturdays may be required during the summer.

About Hilldrup

Hilldrup is one of the largest and most honored agency groups in the entire industry, operating facilities in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Comprised of over 500 employees, Hilldrup moves professionals, families and businesses domestically and internationally as well as provides logistics and workplace solutions services to meet the needs of its clients, which includes Fortune 100 companies, federal government agencies, universities and hospitals.

Among the over 500 employees at Hilldrup, it is not uncommon to meet someone who has been with the company 10, 20 or even 30 years. Hilldrup is an award-winning workplace where employees feel valued, are encouraged to grow professionally and are empowered to build lasting careers.

Our values are very important to the organization as they guide our employees and company in all that we do each day. Our values include Empowered Accountability, Uncompromised Integrity, Unwavering Commitment, Fearless Communication, Infectious Positivity, and Purposeful Agility.

For more information about Hilldrup, click here: hilldrup.com/about-us/.

For information about our benefits, click here: hilldrup.com/benefits/.

Hilldrup is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities

Company Description

Incumbents will be expected to embrace, champion and serve as a strong role model for Hilldrup’s organizational competencies/values:

-Empowered Accountability
-Fearless Communication
-Infectious Positivity
-Purposeful Agility
-Uncompromised Integrity
-Unwavering Commitment

Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities

Company Description

Incumbents will be expected to embrace, champion and serve as a strong role model for Hilldrup’s organizational competencies/values:\r\n\r\n-Empowered Accountability\r\n-Fearless Communication\r\n-Infectious Positivity\r\n-Purposeful Agility\r\n-Uncompromised Integrity\r\n-Unwavering Commitment\r\n\r\nEqual opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities