Planner

Job Title: Transportation Planner

Location: Wichita, KS 67202 (ON SITE)

Pay Range: $22 – 23.45/Hr. On W2 (Depending on Experience/Interview)

Duration: Contract Role (Possible Extension or Temp to Hire for Right Candidate)

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday 7:30 – 4:30 PM OR 8:00 – 5:00 PM

Job Description:

The Transportation Planner will help coordinate shipments & deliveries to customers & plants.

In this role, you will monitor key integrated business planning performance indicators, cost-to-serve performance data, and help coordinate deliveries to meet high customer-service standards.

Help communicate transportation issues with Business unit stakeholders & carriers.

Work with plants & shipping locations to coordinate pickups.

This temporary position is to provide additional track and trace support for Packaged Truck Operations.

This role is responsible for tracking and tracing day to day Packaged Truck deliveries for the Food Enterprise, specifically focused on starches, sweeteners & texturizers.

Responsibilities include carrier shipment tracking and communication with external and internal stakeholders.

Works with customer service and transportation team members to provide updates and work to ensure timely pickup and delivery requirements are being met and communicate risks.

This role is responsible for planning day to day Packaged Truck deliveries.

Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities include:

Carrier utilization and scheduling, cost and service reporting and communication with external and internal stakeholders.

Works with Sales and Supply Chain groups to understand requirements and make best value delivery decisions to support customer requirements.

Supports the sourcing strategy by tendering and managing orders in SAP with tiered carrier rankings.

Responsible for day-to-day management of orders from an assigned set of plants and public warehouses.

Includes building loads, monitoring of unrouted orders, coordinating ship and delivery dates, handling customer add-ons and broken or changed loads and logging and approving carrier invoiced costs.

Typical requirements include a degree in logistics, transportation, business or a related field and 2 or more years of experience or 4 years of experience.

“Russell Tobin offers eligible employees comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.”