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Responsible for the Management of up to 80 drivers, 3PL drivers when needed, overseeing 4 locations including 3 Domicile locations, and 10 staff members of the Transportation Department ensuring performance expectations. Ensures daily changes are coordinated in an efficient, effective, productive manner, and on-time customer service. Responsibilities include but are not limited to applying policies/procedures; safety/compliance - including food safety, DOT Hours of Service, record keeping, customer service, route monitoring, interaction with and providing direction to drivers. • Member of the Transportation department supporting up to 350 associates in a 500,000 sq ft distribution facility.• Manage the labor activities to meet the expectations of direct labor by ensuring the effectiveness of the workforce with the implementation of strategic delivery changes to stay within planned annual Transportation budget of $19.1MM.• Coordinate the daily scheduling by recommending optimal work schedules, providing input on stop/route changes, provide input on customer service times, meet customer window expectations, and make improvement recommendations based on collaborative driver feedback.• Analyze real-time and historical data (through PeopleNet and other systems) to maintain on-time reporting, accurate route plans, improving transportation efficiency and customer service.• Works with operations for process improvement on timely departures, and delivery targets to improve customer service and associate experience (Loader meetings).• Part of a project team on driver/route optimalization that improved on-time delivery performance from 85% to 95% and increased customer service level by initiating a Produce staging area to improve on-time customer delivery accuracy. Summarize your key responsibilities and accomplishments. Where appropriate, use the language and words you find in the specific job description. Be concise, targeting 3-5 key areas.

Position Purpose-Responsible for understanding the safety guidelines, delivery routes, transportation procedures, and routing all trucks in the most efficient manner as well as continuous monitoring of routes to gain new efficiencies. Routing responsibilities• Strong knowledge of applicable routing computer system.• Receive closing on routes from customer service, verify accuracy of customer route information, and analyze routes for new efficiency. Backhaul coordinator responsibilities• Responsible for vendor accountability for order pickups.• Maintained the overall expected weekly attainment of above %95 and on-time accuracy of 59 loads with over 250 Vendor pick-ups a week.• Collect and process packets from previous days backhauls verifying on-time arrival to maintain the on-time scans/landing accuracy of every PO/Load

• Work on operating systems (SCI/Manhattan/UBS) to map each load diagram for the drivers/loaders, to electronically load finished product on the trucks, and to invoice customer paperwork for truck drivers.

• Line is moving at a steady pace and is finished in a timely matter• As a Team Lead it is part of my responsibility to make sure that completion is done in a timely manner, quantity is correct, and quality is good and that there are no errors.