Transit Operator - Transportation

Employer: Kent Building Supplies

Location: Saint John, New Brunswick

Salary: $16.00 to $36.00 hourly

JOB DESCRIPTION Dispatchers are responsible for the daily management of coordinating deliveries in their area. This includes communicating and working with members of our fleet, sales team, and back-end operations team to provide exceptional service to our customers. Starting wage for this position is $18.50/hr.RESPONSIBILITIES Communicate daily via phone, radio, and emails with an assigned fleet of drivers to ensure proper load instructions are passed along and carried out. Determines the most efficient delivery schedules, taking various factors such as driver availability, size of load, trip length, etc. into consideration. Work with the sales team to coordinate customer's delivery requests. Maintains regular and professional communication with the customer. Plan loads/runs to ensure the best time efficiency and load factor. Coordinate vehicle maintenance. Assist other dispatch/shipping staff as required during spikes in workload. Troubleshoot delivery problems. Process paperwork acc