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BJ's Logistics, LLC
Elkton, MD (In Person)
$53,196 Salary, Full-Time
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Job Description
Weekly Pay:
Get paid every week so that you can manage your money on your terms.Free BJ's Memberships:
Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.Generous Paid Time Off:
Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits:
Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.- 401(k)
Retirement Savings Plan:
Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).Employee Stock Purchase Plan:
Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ's common stock at a 15% discount.- Eligibility requirements vary by position.
Job Summary:
Monitor all loads under dispatch authority to provide safe and on-time service to our customers, vendors and distribution centersJob Responsibilities:
- Interact in a cooperative and professional manner with other team members, supervisors, customers, and vendors, even in difficult situations
- Complete tasks and documentation neatly, accurately, and timely
- Provide exceptional (WOW) Customer Service by building and maintaining effective communication with carriers, vendors, and internal and external customers
- Monitor all loads under dispatch authority for on-time service, communicating status updates to include time changes, scheduling and updates to customers and vendors as necessary
- Monitor temperature of all loads under dispatch authority
- Prepare daily dispatch schedule for drivers and equipment
- Build and update inbound and outbound orders in dispatch program
- Act as a primary contact for Drivers, responding to driver's inquiries regarding, but not limited to, breakdowns, directions, and product delivery discrepancies
- Maintains driver, load and service information in the transportation management system
- Record and report driver accident occurring while under dispatch
- Share responsibility with Transportation Supervisor to monitor driver's hours of service (HOS) to prevent DOT violations
- Maintaining accurate equipment availability lists
- Assisting with obtaining details for initial accident and workers compensation reports if a supervisor is unavailable
- Adjust delivery and backhaul assignments to accommodate breakdowns, late trucks, and other changes
- Identify and notify substitute drivers
- Interface with 3rd party providers to procure transportation services and monitor load progress while under dispatch
- Maintain required productivity level
- Continuously promote driver safety
- Review and voucher all expenses/invoices for the department, resolving any discrepancies with provider(s)
- Maintain and update all departmental financial tracking
- Maintain all files to meet payroll, financial or federal retention requirements
Experience and Qualifications:
- Education - High school diploma or GED. College coursework, continuing technical education or comparable business experience preferred
- Basic knowledge and understanding of Department of Transportation (DOT) Hours of Service
- Knowledge of Transportation Management Systems preferred
- Ability to read conventional and electronic mapping
- Ability to read with corrected or uncorrected vision
- Ability to speak, read, write and understand English
- Ability to remain calm and focused while prioritizing requests from multiple sources
- Ability to assist in creation and maintaining the guidelines of a fiscal budget
- Ability to maintain and ensure confidentiality of team member and company information
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Proficient in computer usage to include email, word processing, spreadsheets
- Knowledge of computer software and applications
- Ability to accommodate flexible schedules to meet the needs of the customer to include overtime, nights, weekends and holidays as required
- Ability to utilize equipment for the job such as computers, cell phone, phone, handheld trackers, copiers, scanners, printers, tractor mobilecomm devices
- Ability to Travel (less than 10%)
Environmental Job Conditions:
- Must be able to lift up to 25 lbs occasionally
- Must be able to sit on an almost continual basis and stand, walk, bend, or squat on an occasional basis in a normal office environment In accordance with the Pay Transparency requirements, the following represents a good faith estimate of the compensation range for this position.
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