Gavel Transport Hiring for Logistics Specialist at Las Vegas, NV Full Time

We are looking for a detail-oriented logistics specialist for our Mesa, AZ facility. In this role, your duties will include communicating with our customers to record their requirements, tracking inventory movements, planning, and adjusting routes, as well as scheduling drivers to deliver or collect freight, shipments, and packages.

To ensure success as a logistics specialist, you should exhibit extensive experience in inventory management and warehouse operations. Ultimately, an outstanding logistics specialist is someone whose organizational skills translate into exceptional inventory management and freight delivery services while demonstrating the Company’s Core Values. The Logistics Specialist will to the Assistant Manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Scheduling inbound and outbound freight deliveries.
• Communicating with drivers and operations about freight details, delivery or pickup times, and special handling requests
• Work closely with the accounting department to reconcile inventory counts
• Managing inventory put away, storage, and retrieval.
• Planning pre-determined routes and accommodating route changes as needed.
• Preparing dispatch documents, as well as generating freight bills and invoices as needed.
• Maintaining records of dispatched calls, driver routes, route changes, as well as delivery and pickup times
• Keeping track of transportation regulations and laws to ensure that truck drivers comply
• Reviewing drivers’ logs, including dispatched calls and arrival times
• Monitoring truck repairs and maintenance schedules
• Logging customer shipping schedules and complaints
• Unloading/loading of trucks and stowing inventory.

REQUIREMENTS

• High school diploma or GED Required
• Bachelor’s or associate degree in transportation or logistics Preferred
• 2-3 years of shipping/receiving experience Preferred
• Forklift certification Required
• Experience as a truck dispatcher in a similar industry Preferred
• 3PL experience Preferred
• Being Bilingual is a plus
• Compliance with all DOT and OSHA laws and rules
• Exceptional ability to schedule loads, plan routes, and dispatch drivers to customer locations
• Extensive experience in customer services, as well as generating freight bills and invoices
• Proficiency in office software, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Google Suite
• Ability to monitor equipment maintenance schedules, and repairs
• Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills
• Able to communicate effectively in a positive fashion with English as the primary language
• Ability to multi-task, meet deadlines and work as a team in a fast-paced environment
• Frequently required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Occasionally required to sit and climb or balance
• Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust and focus

Would you like to join our team? Gavel Transport is looking for a Dispatcher to help reinforce our ambition to become one of the great places to work. We are offering a competitive salary, a competitive benefits package, 401K, and profit-sharing. We are looking for someone who is energetic, resilient, driven, and adaptable, and can align with our core values built around employee engagement. If you are interested we would love to hear from you.