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Transportation Service Specialist

The Fountain Group LLC
  • Toledo, OH
  • $24.80 Per Hour
  • Instant Apply
6 days ago

Job Description

Shift Information:
  • Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm, Onsite Position!
  • Pay rate set at $24.80/hr!
  • 12+ Month contractto start! This is a W2 Contract (No 1099/C2C), with a possibility of extension or conversion beyond the original duration based on performance & budget at that time.
  • Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance. 
 
Job Description: 
  • Position is primarily responsible for managing daily outbound transportation activities, including assigning freight to carriers and coordinating shipments to meet customer delivery dates.
  • Position will also be responsible for tracking deliveries, communicating with carriers, customers, manufacturing facilities and internal teams, and ensuring shipments arrive on time and damage free.
  • Position will be in charge of troubleshooting transportation issues including late shipments, carrier/capacity challenges, delivery exceptions and changing priorities.
 
Qualifications:
  • 2+ years of transportation/logistics experience supporting outbound freight, load assignment, shipment tracking and carrier coordination is required!
  • Experience working directly with carriers, manufacturing facilities, customer service teams and/or customers to support on-time deliveries is required!
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to manage shipment issues, changing priorities and delivery exceptions is required!
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, along with communication, organization and time-management skills is required!
  • Manufacturing or distribution logistics experience is preferred!
  • Experience with TMS, ERP/SAP, freight planning or carrier-management systems is preferred!
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Numbers & Facts

LocationToledo, OH
IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
Company Size500 to 999 employees
Websitehttps://www.thefountaingroup.com/

About Company

The Fountain Group provides Contingent Labor, Statement-of-Work, and Contingent-to-Permanent resources to clients with an internal/external Contingent Labor Managed Service Program or Clients without a program. The Fountain Group is committed to the belief that we all share in the responsibility to conduct our businesses in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. We base this on the premise that a company is much more than the products it offers. The effect a company has on the environment, the people and the communities it serves reflects the company’s dedication to being not only a good business, but to being a good corporate citizen. The Fountain Group believes the key to servicing a client is to identify the client demand precisely. Therefore, The Fountain Group focused its efforts on building and developing a process, which can identify an exact match for our client’s needs. Our process utilizes modern technology combined with 30+ years of Talent Acquisition experience to deliver Precision resources. Financial strength is prominent among The Fountain Group’s corporate values. The future of our business will be built on the innovation, compassion, outstanding services and technology, but a solid financial foundation is required to carry us forward to meet our business goal and support our long term vision.

Skills

  • Budgetingunmatched
  • Cargo/Freightunmatched
  • Contract Creationunmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Disability Insuranceunmatched
  • Distribution Servicesunmatched
  • Identify Issuesunmatched
  • Life Insuranceunmatched
  • Loading/Unloadingunmatched
  • Logisticsunmatched
  • Manufacturingunmatched
  • Microsoft Officeunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • SAP ECC (fka SAP R/3 and SAP ERP)unmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • Transportation Planningunmatched
  • Zipunmatched

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