Transportation Coordinator

RJ Schinner Co•Menomonee Falls, WI

4d•Onsite

About The Position

RJ Schinner is a growing company with a long history, operating 20 distribution centers across the U.S. and employing over 600 people. They specialize in providing essential items like paper goods, foodservice packaging, and cleaning supplies to distributors. The company is recognized for its success and growth, and emphasizes a team-oriented culture that values hard work and mutual growth. This role is a full-time, in-office position with standard business hours.

Requirements

High school diploma
Good oral and written communication skills
Attention to detail and accuracy
Moderate level of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook proficiency

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Business
3 years of experience in truck routing, scheduling, and mapping in a redistribution environment
Basic comprehension of warehouse logistics
Eclipse system experience

Responsibilities

Sequence stops in the most efficient way for daily routing.
Balance cube to ensure most deliveries go on our own trucks to minimize common carrier utilization.
Provide guidance to sales, customer service, and operations on how new customers will be delivered.
Set route start times and provide appointment times and receiving hours to operations and drivers.
Provide guidance to drivers on most efficient and safest delivery routes.
Route vendor pickups and transfers.
Update routes on routing sheets including holiday schedules.
Make geocoding updates in the system for routes.
Create and separate routes as needed based on vendor/customer needs.
Investigate and initialize optimal routing solutions.
Take field calls from Sales Representatives for potential new customers to plan out potential routes.
Prepare reports for department heads on metrics such as on-time delivery percentage, driver efficiency performance, and underutilized routes.
Monitor route efficiencies by tracking and communicating with drivers on extra stops, length of stops, and route issues.
Field driver calls regarding customer, route, and truck issues.
Report dwell times to CS and Sales to help customer performance with deliveries.
Provide guidance to drivers on delivery or software needs (Geotab, POD, Samsara, Whip Around).
Monitor equipment utilization for trucks.
Monitor, plan, and schedule Preventative Maintenance (PM) and defects marked within Whiparound.
Partner with the Safety & Compliance department to communicate any training or corrective action opportunities.
Perform other duties as assigned by management.