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Logistics Assistant
Purpose and Scope/General Summary: Pilgrim’s is seeking a Logistics Assistant to coordinate and communicate daily shipment activity across carriers, customers, plant operations, and sales teams. This role is responsible for ensuring timely and accurate updates, investigating and resolving shipment delays, and maintaining strong relationships with carriers. The ideal candidate will provide consistent, clear communication and support to all stakeholders while driving efficient logistics operations.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary liaison between carriers, customers, plant teams, and sales by providing daily shipment updates to Pilgrim’s customers and teams.
- Ensure all shipment updates are delivered accurately and within established deadlines set by sales, customers and executives.
- Investigate and document root causes for late or delayed loads.
- Communicate shipment details clearly and consistently in the required formats for internal teams and customers.
- Support the Carrier Support team with issue resolution and operational needs.
- Develop and maintain strong, professional relationships with carriers and drivers.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey information via phone and email.
- Familiarity with the transportation industry preferred.
- Working knowledge of SAP preferred.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Teams, etc.).
- Demonstrated ability to follow through on tasks and commitments.
- High attention to detail to ensure accuracy.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast- paced environment.
- Comfortable receiving feedback and handling pushback professionally.
- Ability to meet deadlines and work efficiently under pressure.
- Can perform the functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation
The applicant who fills this position will be eligible for the following compensation and benefits:
- Benefits: Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment;
- Paid Time Off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays;
- 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule;
- Base salary of $20/hour;
- Career Development:Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs.
The posted salary range represents the Company’s good faith estimate of the compensation that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, qualifications, tenure, internal equity, market data, and may vary accordingly.
This position does not have an application deadline. We will continue to recruit until the position has been filled.
The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.
About us: Pilgrim’s is a leading global food company with more than 62,000 team members worldwide. The company processes, prepares, packages, and delivers fresh, frozen, and value-added food products for customers in more than 100 countries. Pilgrim’s operates protein processing plants and prepared foods facilities in 14 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the U.K, the Republic of Ireland and continental Europe. Pilgrim’s is headquartered in beautiful Greeley, Colorado, at the JBS USA corporate office where our 1,200 employees enjoy more than 300 days of sunshine a year.
Our mission: To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders and the opportunity of a better future for all of our team members.
Our core values are: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity
EOE, including disability/vets
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Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
Pilgrim's is the second-largest chicken producer in the world, with operations in the United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Our corporate headquarters is in Greeley, Colorado. We employ approximately 38,000 people and have the capacity to process more than 36 million birds per week for a total of more than 9.5 billion pounds of live chicken annually.Pilgrim's products are sold to foodservice, retail and frozen entrée customers. The company's primary distribution is through retailers, foodservice distributors and restaurants throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and in the Northern and Central regions of Mexico. We currently operate in 12 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Mexico. These states include Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Pilgrim's Pride is a part of the JBS USA family. JBS S.A., the world's largest protein company, owns 75.5% of our outstanding common stock. Click here for more information on the JBS family of proteins.