Maui Fresh International is a wholesale produce distributor operating in Los Angeles. The company transports an average of twenty five (25) trucks per week from Nogales, Arizona and is now looking to fill a logistics coordinator/dispatcher position for daily operations. This individual will be responsible for ensuring timely delivery of products to customers within the Los Angeles area.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate shipping operations and ensure efficient delivery of product to customers.
- Supervising drivers, order pullers, and order checkers to ensure product is checked and loaded correctly.
- Provide fast, courteous and quality customer service.
- Communicate and coordinate vital information such as rejections and order changes with Sales.
- Working with truck companies to schedule maintenance and repairs of trucks.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Minimum 3-5 years with professional experience within the freight shipping industry required.
- Related degree preferred but not required based on experience.
- Language skills - English and Spanish.
- Experience in the produce business a plus.
- Experience with using freight boards a plus.
- Working knowledge and understanding of freight and logistics concepts.
- MS Office.
- Proven problem solving abilities.
- Strong attention to detail and follow through skills.
- Must be able to work independently.
- Ability to work in a dynamic, multi-functional and multi-cultural environment.
- Commitment to the company's values and ethics.
Conditions:
The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Similarly, the work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands:
- Able to sit or stand and walk throughout the scheduled work shift.
- Good vision and hearing for safety and communications purposes (in the warehouse environment there are forklifts and packaging machinery etc).
- Regularly required to work in an office and warehouse which can be cold due to refrigeration or hot depending on the season.
- Warehouse hours of operation are from 1am to 5pm daily so a flexible working time schedule will be required.
- A normal working day will start at 2am but a flexible schedule will be required to support the business as required.
Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to manipulate tools or controls, and to talk and hear, to reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Temperature may vary depending upon the time of year (summer, winter).
The Company retains the discretion to add or change job duties at any time.
Our company is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal law.
This policy applies with regard to all aspects of one’s employment, including hiring, transfer, promotion, compensation, eligibility for benefits and termination.
