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Transportation Logistics Coordinator
Posted on January 21, 2025
by World Wide ASG Logistics Inc.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Job Sector:
Transportation & Logistics
Term of Employment: Full-Time
Total Views: 200
Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
Last Updated: 8 hours ago
Job URL: https://newworkers.ca/jobs/ontario/mississauga/622657816/transportation-logistics-coordinator/
Job Description
Tasks
- Develop specific plans to prioritize
- Organize tasks to accomplish the work
- Track and complete work orders
- Co-ordinate activities with other work units or departments
- Perform routine clerical duties
- Prepare and submit reports
- Ensure accuracy of completed time sheets, payroll and other summaries
- Ensure proper functioning of equipment
- Maintain work records and logs
- Monitor personnel workloads and locations
- Organize warehouse and work areas
- Perform general office duties
- Resolve work problems, provide technical advice and recommend measures to improve productivity and product quality
- Recruit and hire staff
- Compile worksheets and specifications of orders
- Prepare and maintain progress and other reports
- Provide customer service
- Train workers in duties and policies
- Arrange training for staff
- Conduct performance reviews
- Co-ordinate, assign and review work
- Advise vehicle operators of traffic and other problems
- Dispatch personnel according to schedules and work orders
- Dispatch personnel as required by emergency situations
- Follow-up on issues with work orders
- Keep track of shipments
- Knowledge of cross border dispatching regulations and practices
- Knowledge of highway trucking and associated rules and regulations
- Maintain vehicle operator work records
- Record mileage, fuel use, repairs and other expenses
- Respond to urgent calls from individual who find themselves in life threatening situation and who require assistance
- Schedule assignments and co-ordinate activities of vehicle operators, crews and equipment
- Organize and maintain inventory
Supervision
- 5-10 people
- Dispatchers and radio operators
- Transportation route and crew schedulers
Experience and specialization
Computer and technology knowledge
- Dispatch management service software
- Monitoring and tracking software
- Electronic scheduler
- Electronic mail
- Operate GPS (Global Positioning System) and other navigation equipment
- Spreadsheet
- MS Outlook
- Internet
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
- MS Windows
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- MS Office
Service experience
- Delivery
- Trucking
Area of specialization
- Traffic controlling
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Handling heavy loads
- Attention to detail
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Accurate
- Values and ethics
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Analytical
- Proactive
Benefits
Financial benefits
- Bonus
- Commission
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- On-site recreation and activities
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
- Parking available