Planner
Current- Responsible for scheduling the transport of heavy haul freight loads to their specified destinations while ensuring the scheduling includes access to distributor yards, wellheads, dock yards, rail yards, and more..
- Maintain current shipment information providing updates to the transportation management system while also providing detailed instruction to various customers & associates from other shifts by phone and e-mail.
- Provide visibility to management and the customer by tracking, process over-sight, auditing, researching, and troubleshooting operational issues or functions.
- Weigh alternative financial decisions in handling rate negotiations with carriers on a spot rate basis and identify cost savings opportunities for the customer before acting.
- Coordinate with carriers to ensure on-time delivery by tracking trucks for pick-up, estimating times of arrival and delivery, and recovering loads when necessary