Spotter Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Good driving record.
• Valid CDL driver's license with 6-month minimum experience.
• Must be able to communicate, read, write, and speak English.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to determine "root cause" of problem and determine corrective action.
• Knowledge of Business Operating Systems, Internet software, Word Processing, and Spreadsheet software.

Nice To Haves

• High School Diploma or general education diploma (GED) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Move empty and loaded trailers.
• Use landing gear to drop trailers.
• Open and close swinging trailer doors and rise and lower roll up doors.
• Climb in trailers to identify freight.
• Communicate with LTL drivers as they come into the yard and indicate where to put their trailers.
• Communicate with outside carriers to what dock doors they should put their trailers in.
• Yard checks.
• Do PM checks on spotter weekly.
• Inspect and red tag out of service trailers and defective equipment.
• Work on trailers, mud flaps, marker lights, turn signals, etc.
• Other tasks as assigned by manager.
• The ability to drive and maintain the spotter, hook up to trailers move them from dock to yard or yard to docks.
• To be safety conscious.
• Transfer trailers between RJW locations when needed.