Transportation Planner

Mauser Packaging Solutions•Oak Brook, IL

4d•$51,000 - $85,000

About The Position

Mauser Packaging Solutions is seeking a dedicated Transportation Planner to join their team. This role is crucial for optimizing shipment processes, ensuring efficient carrier management, and maintaining strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. The company is committed to innovation, sustainability, and providing growth opportunities for its employees. This position offers the chance to contribute to important work, solve interesting problems, and be part of a diverse, forward-looking team focused on improving customer sustainability through packaging solutions.

Requirements

Proven track record in transportation logistics, with at least 2 years of related experience
Proficiency in Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Experience with Windows applications and Microsoft Office
Good organizational skills with attention to detail
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presenting clean, organized and thorough information and data for the intended audience
Ability to manage a high-volume workload
Strong engagement and partnership skills with the ability to both understand and deliver established results

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, transportation, supply chain or related field is preferred

Responsibilities

Shipment optimization – assigning the best cost carrier for the service requested based on routing and financial parameters
Correctly troubleshoot, investigate, resolve and/or escalate issues with suggested resolution
Schedule, coordinate and monitor carriers (Private Fleet, Dedicated Fleet and Common Carriers) to ensure daily transportation operations run safely, efficiently and on time
Assist in the development, planning and modification of daily schedules as appropriate; make notifications to customer service and the operations manager as to the status of shipments
Proactively communicate with customers, MPS employees (CS, Operations, Sourcing) and the management team to ensure necessary requirements are met
Accurately enter data into the transportation management system; maintain and generate required reports
Monitor and ensure proper coding application in a timely matter; escalate as needed
Maintain statement of work audit schedule and distribute updates to all team members
Point of contact for shipment status requests from stakeholders (Emptiers, CS, Facilities, Sourcing)
Coordinate special transportation needs when requested
Track and trace activities to ensure optimal service
Build and maintain carrier relationships to support MPS business
Hold carriers accountable for cost, service and capacity commitments
Process Improvement – Identify opportunities and make suggestions to improve efficiencies within the transportation