Job Description:
Requirements:
- Possess Commercial Drivers License
- Bachelor's Degree (preferred but not required)
- Experience with fleet management software
- Experience with material safety data sheet information
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Ensures maintenance of driver qualification files.
- Investigates all accidents, maintains an accident file, tracks causes and takes appropriate preventative action.
- Understands and interprets DOT and other state and federal regulations.
- Directs and supervises the work and productivity of drivers and clerical associates within the transportation department.
- Ensures all drivers and other transportation department associates are appropriately trained in job duties as well as safety and legal responsibilities.
- Anticipates, analyzes and troubleshoots problems with deliveries and devises cost-effective and legal solutions; and acts to implement same.
- Schedules drivers for routes based on division devised methodology.
- Conducts routine Safety and Driver Meetings.
- Creates an atmosphere in which upward communication is encouraged and motivate associates to achieve department goals and objectives
Qualifications:
- Prior experience managing the administration of shipments.
- Inventory control experience.
- Familiar with regulatory requirements (OSHA, DOT, etc.).
- Experience in a transportation/delivery environment.
- Prior leadership experience in a supervisory role.
Relocation:
Yes