Logistics Yard Coordinator

Target • Detroit, MI

7d • $21 - $37

About The Position

As a Logistics Yard Coordinator, you are responsible for executing daily trailer movements within Target’s Distribution Center yards. You foster a safety-first culture through awareness, training, and accountability, working with carriers to ensure safety expectations are followed and unsafe acts are promptly addressed. You operate Target-owned vehicles to perform yard audits, which may involve driving to an offsite yard depending on facility location. You maintain the yard management system to reflect trailer status and ensure trailers are admitted according to current best practices. You communicate with Distribution Center executives about trailer needs, movement, and progress; monitor trailer releases to help ensure scheduled store deliveries; and maintain accountability for Target equipment through trailer inventories and availability for preventive maintenance checks. You also work cross-functionally with First Mile Transportation to monitor trailer pools and freight-flow volatility and keep yards within safe operating thresholds.

Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• High school degree or equivalent.
• Possess and maintain a valid driver’s license for the state of employment.
• Be at least 18 years of age.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask.
• Experience working in a high-volume, high-activity environment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience within a distribution center truck yard or traffic management.

Responsibilities

• Execute daily trailer movement within Target’s Distribution Center yards.
• Promote a safety-first culture through awareness, training, and accountability.
• Work with carriers to ensure they follow safety expectations, identify unsafe acts, and address them promptly.
• Operate Target-owned vehicles to perform yard audits, potentially including travel to an offsite yard.
• Keep the yard management system updated to reflect the current status of trailers in the yard.
• Ensure trailers are admitted according to current best practices.
• Communicate trailer needs, movement, and progress to Distribution Center executives.
• Monitor trailer releases to help ensure trailers meet scheduled store deliveries.
• Maintain accountability for Target equipment, including conducting trailer inventories and ensuring equipment is available for preventive maintenance checks.
• Work with First Mile Transportation to monitor trailer pools and freight-flow volatility and keep yards within safe thresholds.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and their dependents may receive comprehensive health benefits and programs, including medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Employee discount.
• Short-term disability.
• Long-term disability.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.
• Potential shift differential of $2.00 to $3.50 per hour, based on eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED