Traffic Specialist

ABOUT LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES

Landscape Structures Inc. has been the leading manufacturer of commercial playground equipment in the world for 50 years. Our employee-owned company designs community and school playgrounds that encourage kids of all ages and abilities to learn persistence, leadership, competition, bravery, support, and empathy through play. Landscape Structures pushes the limits—of design, inclusion, and play—to help kids realize there is no limit to what they can do today and in the future. For a better tomorrow, we play today.

Position Summary

The essence of this role is to provide a premier experience for our reps, customers and carriers by coordinating and expediting the movement of outgoing freight and assuring on-time delivery.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides a premier experience for the rep, customer and carrier every time.
• Coordinates and expedite the movement of outgoing freight shipments to customers. Assure that all customer orders are properly shipped in accordance with customer and regulatory requirements.
• Determines shipping methods, using knowledge of shipping procedures, carrier services, transit times, customer requirements and competitive rates.
• Coordinate carriers to schedule deliveries of shipments.
• Performs data entry to input job specific information in applicable systems.
• Assists with tracking and expediting freight, including the tracking of overseas shipments.
• Creates bills of lading.
• Assists with freight quotes by determining shipping costs and rates.
• Looks for creative ways for moving freight.
• Makes recommendations to Logistics Manager as needed for carriers, routings, and pricing.

Attributes:

• Able to build and maintain relationships with reps, carriers, customers and internal staff
• Attention to detail and solid organizational skills
• Able to multi-task and smoothly juggle priorities
• Adept at problem solving
• Strong customer service skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Independent, dependable, resourceful and self motivated
• Premier phone skills

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Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED required; Associated degree preferred.
• Must have 4+ years of experience, including road, water and air transportation- domestic and international
• Manufacturing background preferred
• Experience with international shipping a plus, as well as experience dealing with customs
• Haz Mat Certification a plus
• Able to maintain a reliable and consistent attendance record
• Experience with Microsoft Office

COME AS YOU ARE

• We welcome anyone with tattoos, piercings, and/or dyed hair.

Landscape Structures is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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