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Job Title: Transport Manager
Location of the Job: Seattle, WA 98104
Years of Experience: 1 to 3 Years
Job Type: Full Time Employee
Education Level: Bachelor’s degree
Job Summary:
This person is a transportation manager in charge of the transportation requirements for one of PBC’s bottling plants. The successful candidate will lead an organization responsible for managing truck load (TL) inter-company shipments.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Accountable for delivering annual operating plan and cost savings objectives
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, procedure manuals, and outside correspondence
- Directly responsible for maintaining an efficient cost advantaged company transport fleet
- Provide coaching and guidance to department managers and supervisors in the performance of duties and functions for their respective responsibilities
- Directly responsible for on-time delivery performance for company transport fleet
- Develop effective relationships with internal customers (i.e. sales, logistics, plant, satellite warehouses etc.)
- Effectively present information and respond to questions from senior executives, employees, and carriers
- Ensures that fleet capital investments yield a favorable return; manages appropriate spare ratios and asset disposal
- Provide interface and direction for dedicated carriers on issues and improvement projects
- Manages region’s relationship with our 3PL provider
Position Requirements:
- Superb communication skills
- Strong business judgment
- Great analytical skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Knowledge of SQL, HTML is preferred
- MBA candidates are preferred
- Working knowledge of MS Office
- Bachelor’s in computer science or other related degree is required
- 2 plus years in process improvement
- 2-4 years experience in project/process management
Salary: $12.00 – $14.00 Hourly DOE