Transportation Coordinator

Find your future with National Beef

National Beef of Kansas City, Missouri, is looking for a qualified professional to join our Team as Transportation Coordinator.  With competitive pay and benefits, stable work, and an environment that is caring and supportive, National Beef could become your next career move.

Competitive wages and benefits:

• Family-friendly benefits including Health, Dental, and Vision
• 401 (k) with Company match
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement

General Hours: Monday through Friday (some overtime as needed)

Transportation Coordinator responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Overages, Shortages and Damages - Acts as coordinator of information between sales, claims department, Quality Assurance (Technical Services), customer service and carrier

  • Collects detailed information of OS&D from carriers and/or customers

  • Following all Technical Services guidelines to make initial assessment of damages to determine wholesomeness of product.   Collect all necessary information and assist with making any necessary arrangements for outside services.

  • Distributes information to appropriate groups (QA, plant, sales) and advises customer service of any delays.   Determine the value of products and transportation cost to assist sales and claims department in determining worthiness of resell and least loss to National Beef Packing (NBP)

  • Communicates re-consignments with carrier and authorize additional freight charges by updating AP system and providing authorization numbers to carrier

  • Process, document and maintain record of resell information including new ship to, purchase order numbers and pricing to ensure accurate credits and re-bills.  Providing copies to claims department, note systems, maintain EXCEL spreadsheets in NBP ALL USERS and Transportation files.

• Arranges Transportation to pick up products upon request

  • Once products have been delivered and the transportation carrier has left, arrangements for rejected products are made to be picked up and redeliver as requested by claims and/or sales departments.

• Carrier Claims Processing

  • Send out and collect formal claims with transportation carriers.  Work with carrier claims department and insurance company to settle claims and minimize National Beef's loss.  

• High level service resolution

  • Point of contact for sales, NBP customer service and/or Transportation Carrier rep when all normal service options have been exhausted and resolution has not been reached. 

  • Other duties as assigned

This is an on-site position.

Qualified Candidates for the Transportation Claims Coordinator position should possess the following:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to effectively organize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously

• Ability to work in stressful circumstances and interface with various personalities and levels of authority

• Reasoning and problem-solving ability

• Bachelor's Degree preferred but not required (minimum of High School Diploma or equivalent)

• General office skills

• Professional Appearance

• Good Work Ethic

• Customer service experience preferred

• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred

• Strong computer skills, Microsoft Word and Excel

Must be at least 18 years of age or older.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

National Beef is a leader in producing fresh, chilled and further processed beef products for customers in the U.S. and worldwide. We offer a variety of employment opportunities in our production, packaging, and hide tanning facilities that stretch from the western plains to the east coast. We strive to be the preferred employer in every one of those communities, whether it's measured by the number of people employed or the good we do in the area. We invite you to join our family, wherever you call home.

National Beef is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, natural origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, or status as a disabled individual.

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