dispatch logistician

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Co-ordinate activities with other work units or departments
• Monitor movement of supplies and materials between departments
• Perform routine clerical duties
• Prepare and submit reports
• Ensure smooth operation of computer equipment and machinery
• Arrange for maintenance and repair work
• Ensure proper functioning of equipment
• Maintain work records and logs
• Monitor personnel workloads and locations
• Organize warehouse and work areas
• Resolve work problems, provide technical advice and recommend measures to improve productivity and product quality
• Recruit and hire staff
• Co-ordinate activities with warehouse and production units
• Co-ordinate traffic flow of supplies
• Estimate type and quantity of materials and labour required for production, construction and other projects
• Prepare and maintain progress and other reports
• Project management
• Provide customer service
• Train workers in duties and policies
• Arrange training for staff
• Conduct performance reviews
• Co-ordinate, assign and review work
• Advise vehicle operators of traffic and other problems
• Dispatch personnel according to schedules and work orders
• Dispatch personnel as required by emergency situations
• Follow-up on issues with work orders
• Keep track of shipments
• Knowledge of highway trucking and associated rules and regulations
• Maintain vehicle operator work records
• Process and transmit information and instructions to co-ordinate the activities of vehicle operators and crews using dispatching equipment
• Record mileage, fuel use, repairs and other expenses
• Schedule assignments and co-ordinate activities of vehicle operators, crews and equipment
• Organize and maintain inventory
• Establish work schedules and procedures
• Plan, organize and oversee operational logistics of the organization

Supervision

• 1 to 2 people