Description

The Transportation Coordinator provides administrative support to optimize the transportation team’s operations. This position focuses on ensuring safety and compliance with DOT and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulations.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

Education/Certification:

• High School Diploma or GED required

Special Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Thorough understanding of DOT and FMCSA regulations
• Customer-centric, self-starter and strong organizational skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Work independently with minimal supervision
• Accurate data entry skills, intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel and Outlook)

Experience: 

• 2 years of administrative support in transportation and logistics
• Food industry and routing software experience is a plus

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain fleet and drivers in compliance with DOT/FMCSA regulations and promote safety initiatives
• Coordinate with our Safety department on the tracking of all relevant driver data, such as license status, moving violations, accidents, and other risk and safety-related data
• Submit recommendations for development of and compliance with transportation policies, procedures, and programs
• Assist in driver scheduling, allocation, and communication functions per established policies and objectives
• Actively monitor driving performance and assist in utilizing available TMS tools.
• Monitor and ensure facility and vehicle security protocols are adhered to at all times.
• Assist with data tracking and reporting as well as various transportation projects
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned

MENTAL DEMANDS:

• The person in this position needs to be able to read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
• The person in this position needs to adapt well in the face of workplace stressors, such as competing priorities of reasonable or high significance to the successful function of the unit. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger; handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds individually, and up to 50 pounds with the assistance of appropriate equipment and/or co-worker(s)
• Must be able to successfully operate all gas and electric-powered forklift trucks, as well as manual pallet jacks and other warehouse support equipment, following completion of required training 

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS:

• Moderate to loud noise (e.g., light traffic business office with open floor plan with computers, phone, and printers, and medium to heavy traffic in the warehouse with forklifts and pallet jacks).
• Work schedule is Monday-Friday with occasional weekend work; typically work the morning shift but must be flexible with work schedule.

The mental and physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all skills, duties, responsibilities, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, NTFB reserves the right to revise the job or to require other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

The North Texas Food Bank is an equal opportunity employer.