Logistics Specialist II Position Available In Fulton, Georgia

Logistics Specialist

II 3.8 3.8

out of 5 stars 3400 N Desert Dr, East Point, GA 30344

Who We Are:

The Atlanta Community Food Bank is committed to ending hunger in our community by leveraging food, dedicated people, and innovative solutions to ensure that no one has to worry about their next meal. Since 1979, we’ve provided vital resources to a growing network of nonprofit partners, including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters, and senior centers. Today, we proudly serve over 700 partners across 29 counties in metro Atlanta and north Georgia, working together to create a hunger-free future.

Our Promise:

Becoming a Food Banker means more than just a title—it’s an invitation to turn your passion and skills into meaningful action. Here, your work will further our mission to engage, educate, and empower our community in the fight against hunger. Our Food Bankers brings boldness, compassion, and accountability to our shared mission, creating real change in the lives of our neighbors. We value dedication, and in return, we foster an inclusive, supportive environment that will encourage our Food Bankers to grow, innovate, and make a lasting impact. Bring your whole heart to the Atlanta Community Food Bank, and join us in making a difference every day.

Where You’ll Work:

Logistics / Supply Chain About the

Role:

The Logistics Specialist II supports the day-to-day operations of the Transportation and Receiving departments at the Atlanta Community Food Bank. These teams are responsible for managing inbound freight and executing donation pickups and deliveries to community partners serving neighbors facing food insecurity. In this role, you’ll handle a mix of logistics coordination, administrative support, and customer service. You’ll help ensure smooth communication between drivers, contractors, and internal teams; assist with routing, scheduling, and paperwork; and maintain accurate records for reporting and compliance. You may also help with loading trucks or covering routing responsibilities when needed. This position reports to the Senior Manager, Logistics and may require occasional support during evenings and weekends.

What You’ll Do:

Logistics Operations:

Monitor daily transportation activities and stay in communication with drivers and contractors to respond to delays or issues in real time. Prepare and process transportation paperwork to ensure compliance and smooth execution of freight movement. Adjust route assignments as needed and serve as a backup for the routing specialist. Coordinate inbound and outbound freight schedules for Transportation and Receiving departments. Support loading and unloading activities using material handling equipment such as a ride-on jack or stand-up forklift.

Administrative & Customer Support:

Provide timely and accurate information while offering Respond to internal and external inquiries about shipment status, delivery timing, and other service-related issues. Notify relevant parties of any delays or disruptions and escalate service concerns to management. Manually enter transportation and fleet data into reports and spreadsheets to support tracking, compliance, and reporting requirements. Assist with documentation collection (e.g., CSFP) and support administrative tasks as assigned.

Our Inclusive Hiring Process:

At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We understand that skills can be gained through a variety of experiences – educational and work. Towards that end, our Inclusive Hiring process is grounded in a skills-based hiring approach. That means, we are looking for resumes that demonstrate key transferrable skills that can be applied to our job roles to support both our mission and culture. Key Competencies we look for in All our Food Bankers are: Customer Focus Decision Making Accountability The Ability to Navigate Change If you’re excited about this role and can clearly demonstrate these and the other skills named below, we encourage you to apply.

What You’ll Need:

Skills and Experience your resume should demonstrate: Strong Communication & Time management skills. Ability to work well under pressure, and on tight deadlines. Demonstrated skills with Microsoft suite products (Excell, PowerPoint, word. etc) Forklift Certification, or the ability to get certified in the first 90 days. Must possess a strong ability to work well with others. Demonstrated skills of computer and logistics systems (WMS, ERP, TMS…etc) Basic knowledge of safe food handling. Even Better if

You Have:

Experience working with both perishable and nonperishable food items. Food safety training certification. Forklift Certification Routing training certification or verifiable 1 – 2 years of routing and dispatching experience. There may be some

Physical Demands:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Employee is routinely required to lift and transport heavy items to waist level, up to 75 lbs. Frequent bending, stooping, reaching, climbing, and walking are required. Required to drive a forklift and operate warehouse equipment. This position would normally have routine opportunities to alter physical position or change eye focus. Frequently operates in temperature conditions consistent with outside weather. Frequently transition between ambient and refrigerator / freezer temperatures. This position requires local travel daily including routine stops which require driver to load and unload truck contents.

Expectation:

We are committed to providing employees with an environment of mutual respect in which the values of Diversity, Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Hard work are supported and encouraged. We work diligently to engender fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness and teamwork to advance our mission: To fight hunger by engaging, educating, and empowering our community.