Transportation Supervisor
Medline Industries
- Kansas City, MO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Optimize daily routes and activities based on branch and fleet workloads as well as available Customer order information.
- Ensure all drivers are properly trained according to MedTrans requirements.
- Ensure all equipment is properly maintained in accordance with the MedTrans vehicle maintenance policy.
- Recruit, hire, train and discipline all drivers.
- Conduct regularly scheduled meetings with drivers as required by DOT and/or company policy.
- Lead day-to-day activities of employees. Assign, monitor and review progress and accuracy of work, direct efforts and provide technical guidance on more complex issues.
- Experience managing and dispatching drivers and use of routing software.
- At least 2 years of experience coaching, mentoring and training staff.
- Intermediate knowledge of Transportation Costing and Motor Carrier Operations.
- Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: opening a workbook, inserting a row, selecting font style and size, formatting cells as currency, using copy, paste and save functions, aligning text, selecting cells, renaming a worksheet, inserting a column, selecting a chart style, inserting a worksheet, setting margins, selecting page orientation, using spell check and/or printing worksheets).
- Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: inserting, rearranging, hiding and deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding, centering and editing text, changing views, inserting a table or a note, moving objects, printing outline view and/or running a slide show).
- Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions).