Transportation Supervisor

Summary of Job

The supervisor oversees daily transportation operations with route schedules, order compliance, coordination of freight carriers, and confirming compliance with department procedures. Ensures compliance with safety and regulatory standards. Key responsibilities include supervising transportation staff, maintaining records, coordinating domestic logistics including US ports to El Paso, resolving operational issues, extracting and analyzing data for efficiency improvements.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Supervise, train, mentor Transportation Department staff
• Overseeing daily transportation operations, including scheduling and routing to ensure on time performance
• Coordinate daily operation tasks and responsibilities with other departments to streamline processes
• Ensuring compliance with US traffic transportation procedures
• Monitoring transportation costs and optimizing budgets
• Manage transportation reports and analyze data to identify efficiency improvements
• KPI, adherence reports, payment reconciliation with TMS and submit for rate approvals
• Work with manager to streamline and improve workflow to preserve budget
• Ensure adherence to company compliance safety procedures
• Address and resolve transportation-related operational issues and conflicts, and manage emergencies
• Logistics coordination of goods moving across borders, often involving multiple carriers and modes of transportation like sea, air, and land, international
• Monitor operations at DC and our 3PLs for accuracy in/out and out order fulfillment schedules
• Schedule and conduct regular staff training and team meetings
• Willingness to provide operational support outside of business hours.
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Education and Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or a related field preferred; or minimum of 3 years of transportation logistics experience.

• Knowledge of transportation industry and understanding of transportation laws, regulations, and logistics compliance
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills for managing teams and resolving conflicts
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities to address daily operational challenges.
• Proficiency in transportation management software.
• Excellent Microsoft Office; Excel PowerPoint skills
• Accounting abilities to accurately understand financial data and generate reports
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
• Great communication and collaboration skills.

Physical Requirements

• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (as in typical office or administrative work).
• Ability to handle high stress situations