Office Assistant-Transportation

## Description
**JOB SUMMARY**
Support the transportation department by coordinating logistics, maintaining records, and ensuring efficient communication between internal teams and external partners.
**SHIFT NEEDED 10:30 AM TO 7:00 PM**
**ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS**

• Maintain truck, barge and vessel freight bill processing
• Create truck, railcar, barge and vessel freight documentation
• Schedule claims, tracing and billing
• Track fuel surcharge
• Set up new carrier forms
• Report to fleet
• File both electronic and physical paperwork
• Aid with maintaining logistics planning tasks.
• Track shipments across multiple channels
• Performs other tasks, duties or assignments as may be assigned by manager from time to time.
• Analyzes markets and identifies changes within the freight industry to optimize lane capacity, margins.
• Market opportunities for the company.
• Negotiates pricing with carriers.
• Responsible for carrier development to broker more efficient loads.
• Works collaboratively with billing team to address concerns to ensure proper customer invoicing.
• Communicates effectively with internal departments regarding capacity and back-haul coverage.
• Manages and monitors multiple systems to ensure adequate supply of capacity, on-time performance and problem resolution challenges are addressed and communicated timely.
• Assesses customer and carrier performance and provides feedback to management team.
• Continuously improves service levels through ongoing recommendations for process improvements.

## Qualifications
**JOB SUMMARY**
Support the transportation department by coordinating logistics, maintaining records, and ensuring efficient communication between internal teams and external partners.
**ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS**

• Maintain truck, barge and vessel freight bill processing
• Create truck, railcar, barge and vessel freight documentation
• Schedule claims, tracing and billing
• Track fuel surcharge
• Set up new carrier forms
• Report to fleet
• File both electronic and physical paperwork
• Aid with maintaining logistics planning tasks.
• Track shipments across multiple channels
• Performs other tasks, duties or assignments as may be assigned by manager from time to time.
• Analyzes markets and identifies changes within the freight industry to optimize lane capacity, margins.
• Market opportunities for the company.
• Negotiates pricing with carriers.
• Responsible for carrier development to broker more efficient loads.
• Works collaboratively with billing team to address concerns to ensure proper customer invoicing.
• Communicates effectively with internal departments regarding capacity and back-haul coverage.
• Manages and monitors multiple systems to ensure adequate supply of capacity, on-time performance and problem resolution challenges are addressed and communicated timely.
• Assesses customer and carrier performance and provides feedback to management team.
• Continuously improves service levels through ongoing recommendations for process improvements.