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Your Purpose
Oversee day to day transportation operation including supervision of drivers, transportation leads, and dispatchers. This supervisory role also includes creation of delivery routes and schedules, store order processing, and switcher operation. The supervisor supports the Transportation Manager in other projects as required. The Transportation Supervisor is the third step in the leadership progression in transportation. They should have the capability to become transportation manager.
What You’ll Do
• Maximize equipment and driver utilization complying with DOT and all other legal regulations.
• Confirm daily store route efficiency to maximize cube within regulations.
• Confirm manpower protocol is followed.
• Oversee the switcher operation to minimize warehouse wait times and to maintain optimal switcher performance standards.
• Communicate with stores, warehouses, vendors, logistics, and others to ensure world class customer service and efficient transportation operations.
• Timely processing of vacation sheets, driver delays, driver payroll, and periodic reporting.
• Know company policy, procedures, and standards to make sure they are being followed by all transportation associates. Take corrective action when necessary. This action may require coaching.
• Know transportation systems, Prospero, Samsura, MDS, TMT, and Gas Boy. Use of this data is required for a transportation supervisor.
• Ability to Present in Quarterly Driver Meeting.
• Develop an ability to foresee issues in transportation and distribution operations to prevent them from occurring.
Supporting Leadership Through the 5 Es
As a leader, you are expected to model and reinforce our leadership expectations through the 5Es Leadership Framework – serving as both an example and a multiplier of leadership impact across teams and functions:
o Envision: Craft a bold, strategic vision that aligns with the company’s direction. Communicate clearly and consistently to ensure every team understands the “why” behind the work and feels connected to the bigger picture.
o Energize: Cultivate a high-energy, resilient environment where passion, recognition, and urgency fuel momentum. Drive engagement across levels by being visible, present, and inspiring in your leadership.
o Enroll: Build alignment and commitment by involving others early and often. Create clarity around change, communicate transparently, and ensure all stakeholders feel heard, valued, and empowered to act.
o Enable: Break down barriers, advocate for necessary resources, and build capability across your teams. Champion development, empower decision-making, and foster a culture of continuous learning and ownership.
o Execute: Deliver results that matter. Turn strategy into action with prevision and agility, ensure accountability, and continuously improve outcomes through clear priorities, strong follow-through, and data-driven decisions.
What You Bring
• Two-year transportation, logistics or supply chain management degree preferred or distribution/transportation experience equivalent.
• Computer and math skills needed to successfully perform this job. Basic computer skills should include Microsoft Word and Excel. Computer skills should also include the ability to learn transportation systems. Math skills should include basis math skills needed for distribution systems as well as developing costing models.
• Certificates and Licenses: Possess commercial driver’s license preferred.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be provided, in accordance with applicable laws, to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
Physical Demands
Physical demands include, but are not limited to, high aptitude for standing and walking endurance, sitting while driving to various stores, lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, pushing and pulling climbing ladders of various types, bending, squatting, and kneeling, and working in different temperatures inside and outside the store.
Job Title: Transportation Supervisor
Job code: 602
Department: Transportation
Reports To: Transportation Manager
Supervises: Drivers and Dispatchers
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Indian Trail Distribution Center
Created/Updated: September 2025