Job Description:
• Direct activities related to dispatching, routing, and tracking vehicles.
• Plan, organize and manage the work of subordinate staff to ensure that the work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
• Direct investigations to verify and resolve projects complaints.
• Serve as contact persons for all workers within assigned territories.
• Implement schedule and policy changes.
• Collaborate with other managers and staff members in order to formulate and implement policies, procedures, goals, and objectives.
• Monitor operations to ensure that staff members comply with administrative policies and procedures, safety rules, union contracts, and government regulations.
• Promote safe work activities by conducting safety audits, attending company safety meetings, and meeting with individual staff members.
• Develop criteria, application instructions, procedural manuals for transportation programs.
• Monitor spending to ensure that expenses are consistent with approved budgets.
• Direct and coordinate, through subordinates, activities of operations department in order to obtain use of equipment, facilities, and human resources.
• Direct activities of staff performing repairs and maintenance to equipment, vehicles, and facilities.
• Conduct investigations in cooperation with other departments 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.
• Supervise workers assigning tariff classifications and preparing billing.
• Set operations policies and standards, including determination of safety procedures.
• Recommend or authorize capital expenditures for acquisition of new equipment or property in order to increase efficiency and services of operations 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 and computer use.
• Provide administrative and technical assistance to those receiving transportation-related grants.
• Schedule employees and ensure that transport employees are fully trained in the operations in the department and the safety policies of the organization.
• Schedule the maintenance and repair of equipment and vehicles used in transportation duties.
Education
• Bachelors Degree in business management or the industry of the organization.
• Minimum of 7 years of Transportation and Logistics, Finance or Engineering experience and/or equivalent training and experience.
• Proven leadership abilities including coaching, mentoring, and listening.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentation) with internal and external contacts; strong leadership skills in interacting and influencing individuals.
• Excellent understanding of Business law, including contractual agreements.
• Proficient computer abilities (Microsoft Office Suite - Excel, Access, Word).
Note: The Transportation Manager will be only responsible for the new 100 trailers that will transport Aggregate and Material between our crushers and concrete/asphalt planets and projects, he will not has any duties in the management only in and between projects.