Trucking Manager

Job Title

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals to perform the essential functions.

Responsibilities:

• Exercise a high level of professionalism and confidentiality when working with staff, projects and proprietary information.
• Engage in a broad spectrum of projects with impact throughout the logistics process to identify, address, improve, and sustain operational effectiveness and efficiency.
• Establish transparency and accountability within the trucking department and with the cross-functional team members who engage in the logistics process.
• Being able to promote new technology and provide the expertise needed to help drive results through training and mentoring.
• Develop strategy for the future of the department and how it can successfully integrate into the larger goals of the company.
• Build logistics supply chain and manage trucking contracts, including sourcing, negotiating, and executing.
• Own and manage the logistics asset fleet, including forecasting needs and ensuring availability to meet business demands.
• Build financial plan and hold team accountable to hitting key cost targets. Secure buy-in from key internal stakeholders through effective and efficient communications and relationships.
• Leverage cross-functional, agile teams and project groups to identify and address opportunities for improvement.
• Travel to Clark Pacific and partner locations as needed to provide leadership, oversight, and management of trucking operations and teams across multiple sites.
• Utilize data analytics, internal data and trends to support project planning, monitor performance, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to support project objectives and decision-making.

Other duties as assigned

Key Interfaces:

• Internal: Operations leadership, Engineering, Finance, Human Resources, Labor workforce
• External: Supply base

Key Metrics and Deliverables:

• Financial: Operations Margin; Budget performance
• Behavioral: Safety performance
• Delivery: Delivery to schedule
• Quality: Minimizing rework

Skills and Abilities:

• Exceptional communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal, as well as the ability to effectively listen and engage with all levels of the organization.
• Builds strong relationships; engages and motivates teams representing diverse backgrounds and viewpoints; exceptionally collaborative.
• Ability to maintain attentiveness to detail and accuracy throughout involvement in multiple projects without losing sight of goals and deadlines.
• Excellent organization skills to drive topics with multiple stakeholders/interests.
• Experience working with TMS and being able to recommend a clear Technology path forward.
• Experience building, setting up Power BI Reports and tracking KPI's
• Problem solving skills that aim to remedy and prevent reoccurrence.
• Comfortable escalating issues while maintaining positive relationships with team members and other organizations.
• Passionate about Clark Pacific's vision and mission; able to promote, demonstrate, and communicate the mission, values and core competencies of Clark Pacific to others.
• Able to exercise appropriate discretion when handling confidential and/or sensitive information.
• Display willingness and interest in stepping up into greater leadership role if the situation requires or the opportunity presents itself.
• Strong understanding of contract management, trucking and DOT regulations, and fleet operations.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office Suite programs

Work Environment:

• General in-office environment will be experienced.
• There will be periodic exposure to manufacturing and field environments which may present hazards such as noise, electricity, chemicals, heavy equipment, and other automated and manual machinery.
• There will be periodic exposure to outside weather conditions, including extreme cold and extreme heat, wet and/or humid environments.

Physical Demands:

• Frequent: Sitting at desk, utilizing computers and phones, standing and walking
• Periodic: Repetitive foot, leg, hand, arm, shoulder, and torso movements
• Business travel, (40%). Bending squatting, stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, and lifting.

Experience and Education:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Transportation, Operations Management, Engineering or a related field required; Master's Degree preferred.
• 710 years of progressive experience in trucking, transportation, logistics, distribution, or supply chain operations, including increasing levels of responsibility
• 35 years of leadership or management experience overseeing drivers, transportation teams, dispatch, logistics operations, or similar functions preferred
• Experience managing fleet operations, transportation scheduling, routing, dispatch, and delivery coordination preferred.
• Experience in construction, manufacturing, precast concrete, heavy haul, or oversized-load transportation is a plus
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

Education

Required

Bachelors or better.

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