Agricultural Logistics Specialist

**Company**: Midwestern BioAg

**Position**:Agricultural Logistics Specialist

**Reports to**:Operations Manager

**Hourly rate**:$22-26 per hour depending on experience

**General Description**:
**Essential Job Responsibilities**:

- Production Schedules: Set daily production schedules in order to maintain sufficient inventory and fulfill orders.
- Data entry: Utilize logistics spreadsheets and inventory database to ensure all material and product are recorded. Provide product supply, pricing and order status updates to customers as needed.
- Effectively manage the coordination and scheduling of drivers and equipment for maximum utilization, while meeting customer needs.
- Manage driver scheduling and load dispatching with focus on efficiency, cost effectiveness, customer service and compliance.
- Effectively utilize dispatch tools to help coordinate all drivers and equipment.
- Assist walk-in customers as needed.
- Serve as sales support.
- Special projects and other duties as assigned.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in transportation, logistics/ related field or equivalent work experience
- 2 years experience working in a dispatch department or equivalent logistics/ transportation coordinator position
- Proficient in Microsoft office programing, specifically Excel
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple timelines at once
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Ability to think on feet and make changes to plans often
- Must be able to work effectively under both direct and indirect supervision
- Must be extremely organized and pay close attention to detail
- Preferred:_
- Experience working in an agronomy company

**Competencies**
- Customer Focus: Builds effective relationships (internal and external), identifies customer expectations, sees issues from their point of view; offers practical recommendations.
- Collaboration: seeks and enlists active participation of others to reach goals
- Personal Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions, including failure. Embraces experiences as learning opportunities and not chances to blame.
- Proactive Approach & Initiative: Identifies what needs to be done and doing it before being asked by developing a path to a desired outcome including sequence, feedback points, and time estimates.
- Priority Setting: Determines the interrelationships and relative importance of tasks and takes action accordingly
- Adaptability: Flexible style; receptive to change; able to fit the circumstances.
- Innovation: Generates new ideas and approaches to enhance the organization’s systems, products, or effectiveness.
- Humor: Uses appropriate humor to maintain a positive environment.
- Time Management: allocates time efficiently to the most important issues and knows what not to spend time on; completes work in a timely fashion.
- Planning: develops a path to a desired outcome including sequence, feedback points, and time estimates.
- To succeed in this job, the individual must perform each essential job responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential job responsibilities. Job descriptions represent a general outline of job responsibilities and qualifications. They are not intended to be comprehensive in nature. In addition, jobs evolve over time and, therefore, their descriptions may not reflect the precise nature of the position at a given point of time._

Pay: $22.00 - $26.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Vision insurance

Ability to Relocate:

- Blue Mounds, WI 53517: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person