Transportation Supervisor

Job Title: Transportation Supervisor

Reference #: PFTSBC140318
Employer: International Freight Forwarder
Location: Richmond

Duration of Employment: Permanent Full-time
Starting Time: ASAP
Work Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with 30 min lunch break (Mon- Fri) * Flexibility to work day/ afternoon and weekends required.
Compensation: 60-70k DOE (MSP, Group Insurance, RRSP and DPSP after completion of the probationary period.)

Responsibilities:

Current (present until 6 months)

- Plan, organize and supervise activities related to dispatching, routing, and tracking company trucks to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with customer requirements.

- Responsible for all inside, outside drivers, as well as managing both loading at the company’s Terminal and outside vendors.

- Direct investigations to verify and resolve customer or shipper complaints.

- Schedule a monthly meeting with all drivers to address issues that come up as a group covering topics of safety protocols, trucking issues, and others

- Collaborate with other managers and staff members in order to fulfill customer orders.

- Monitor fleet performance to ensure that staff members comply with administrative policies and procedures, safety rules, and government regulations.

- Promote safe work activities by conducting safety audits, attending company safety meetings, and meeting with individual staff members.

- Define department and employees goals and review staff performance.

- Monitor spending to ensure that expenses are consistent with approved budgets.

- Direct and coordinate activities of other department in order to obtain use of equipment, facilities, and human resources.

- Direct activities of staff performing repairs and maintenance to equipment and vehicles.

- Negotiate trucking rate with off hire carriers and companies.

- Maintain good relations with shipping line, trucking associations, vendors as well as other industry partners.

Tasks on hold (after 6 months)

- Truck brokerage including cross border shipments, domestic, and other trucking shipments outside the scope of container within BC

- Implement schedule and policy changes pertaining to the drivers

- Conduct investigations in cooperation with government agencies to determine causes of transportation accidents and to improve safety procedures.

- Analyze expenditures and other financial information in order to develop plans, policies, and budgets for increasing profits and improving services.

- Set operations policies and standards, including determination of safety procedures for the handling of dangerous goods if applicable.

- Recommend or authorize capital expenditures for acquisition of new equipment or property in order to increase efficiency and services of the department.

- Prepare management recommendations, such as proposed fee and tariff increases or schedule changes.

- Conduct employee training sessions on subjects such as hazardous material handling, employee orientation, quality improvement, safety orientation, new regulation and industrial changes.

- Participate in industry and association meetings and events, in order to build networking and relationship.

Requirements/Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree diploma or equivalent
- Minimum 5 years of previous experience in similar positions is required.

- Strong customer service skills and detail oriented.

- Excellent English communication skills both verbal and written

- Second Language (Mandarin or Cantonese) is an asset.
- Computer skills; Microsoft office, email, internet explorer, etc. and ability to learn proprietary business software applications

- Ability to work under pressure, multi-task, organize and prioritize work load in order to meet numerous deadlines.

- Positive attitude, friendly, outgoing personality.

- Willingness to learn and ask questions.

- Valid BC class 5 driver’s license.

* Please apply only if you possess all of the requirements.
* Please visit http://www.panpacificpersonnel.com, go to 'POSITIONS AVAILABLE’ click “Transportation Supervisor” and apply.
* We thank all applicants; however, only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.

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