Delivery Manager Delivery

Builders FirstSource • Brooksville, FL

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About The Position

The Delivery Manager directs and manages delivery activities and department staff at specified locations. The role plans, coordinates, and assigns work to Dispatchers, Drivers, and/or Yard personnel to meet or exceed scheduling goals. The manager coordinates daily delivery schedules with Driver assignments, uses economical delivery options, and optimizes materials-handling equipment and delivery vehicles. The role monitors materials inventories, production programs, and other factors affecting schedules, revises schedules when orders or forecasts change, and determines recourse when schedules cannot be met.

The position manages the department toward functional and budgetary or financial goals, tracks and reports delivery mileage, fuel usage, vehicle repairs, and other delivery-related issues, and supervises assigned employees. Employee-management responsibilities include selection and training, work planning and assignment, performance reviews, rewards and discipline, and resolving complaints and problems. The manager observes safety procedures and practices, attends safety meetings as required, and may recommend safety improvements.

The work combines indoor and outdoor environments. It is generally sedentary and office-based, with computer use and occasional walking or standing. Some oversight activities may occur outdoors in varying temperatures and weather. The role may occasionally require moving objects weighing up to 25 pounds.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and six years of experience coordinating shipping or delivery activities, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least one year of lead or supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of company practices and standards for product shipping and delivery.
• Knowledge of business mathematics.
• Knowledge of DOT regulations or other requirements regulating delivery schedules.
• Leadership skills and the ability to achieve work productivity through others.
• Ability to read and write delivery schedules and reports.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery scheduling activities and department staff, coordinating daily delivery schedules with Driver assignments.
• Establish schedules that use economical delivery options and optimize materials-handling equipment and delivery vehicles.
• Monitor materials inventories, production programs, and other factors affecting delivery schedules.
• Revise schedules in response to order changes, cancellations, returns, and revised forecasts; determine recourse when schedules cannot be met.
• Manage the department to achieve functional and budgetary or financial goals.
• Track and report delivery mileage, fuel usage, vehicle repairs, and other delivery-related issues to management.
• Manage assigned employees, including selection and training, planning and assigning work, directing work, conducting performance reviews, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints, and resolving problems.
• Understand and observe safety procedures and practices, attend required periodic safety meetings, and potentially recommend safety improvements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager