Overview:
We are seeking a highly organized and experienced Dispatch Manager to join our team.
- Confer with customers, supervisors, contractors, and other personnel to exchange information and to resolve problems.
- Direct workers in transportation or related services, such as drayage, local pick ups, moving, storing, and loading/unloading of cargo and trailer or containers.
- Plan and establish transportation routes.
- Inspect vehicles, equipment, and facilities to ensure that they are safe, free of defects, and meet specifications.
- Resolve worker problems, or collaborate with employees to assist in problem resolution.
- Review orders, production schedules, and shipping/receiving notices to determine work sequences and material shipping dates, types, volumes, and destinations.
- Compute and estimate hours for payroll, transportation, personnel, and storage requirements.
- Monitor field work to ensure that it is being performed properly and that equipment is being used as they should be.
- Recommend and implement measures to improve worker motivation, equipment performance, work methods, and customer services.
- Dispatch personnel and vehicles in respond to telephone or radio reports of emergencies.
- Maintain or verify records of time, materials, expenditures, and crew activities.
- Interpret transportation and tariff regulations, shipping orders, safety regulations, and company policies and procedures for workers.
- Explain and demonstrate work tasks to new workers, or assign workers to more experienced workers for further training.
- Perform or schedule repairs and preventive maintenance of vehicles and other equipment.
- Prepare, compile, and submit reports on work activities, operations, production, and work-related accidents.
- Recommend or implement personnel actions such as employee selection, evaluation, and rewards or disciplinary actions.
- Examine, measure, and weigh cargo or materials to determine specific handling requirements.
- Coordinate loading activity of workers in performing tasks such as loading vehicles.
- Requisition needed personnel, supplies, equipment, parts, or repair services.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $25.00 - $35.00 per hour
Benefits:
Schedule:
Work Location: In person