Traffic Coordinator

An hourly office position with the primary responsibilities of ensuring timely shipments of all outbound freight via the most economical means, by scheduling trucks and scheduling outbound pickups for both domestic and export shipments.

The Traffic Coordinator is responsible for delivery of product to the intended destination and maintains conformity to requirements.

Also, this position is required to select appropriate equipment to ensure safe handling, storage, and protection of product.

This position works directly with Customer Service, Loading and Shipping Team, Production Operations, Carriers, and Export Forwarders to meet the delivery requirements of our customers.  As a logistics professional, the Traffic Coordinator is an influencer, who provides qualitative feedback and quantitative data to his/her internal customers enabling them to make real-time process improvements toward the goal of 100%  On-Time Deliver at the lowest landed cost.  The Traffic Coordinator contributes to the success of the Planning and Logistics Team while demonstrating BAC’s values of Customer Focus, Teamwork, Leading Change, Execution, and Collaboration.

The Traffic Coordinator’s contributions will stem from their independent decision-making and strong leadership abilities.                                                  

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES


* Owns personal and team safety.

Observes all safety rules and uses the proper safety equipment at all times.


* Document process improvements resulting from root cause analysis


* Training co-workers and partners on lessons learned and process improvements


* Participate in continuous improvement activities and projects.


* Conduct daily review of shipping schedule to identify and prioritize shipment activities


* Proactively communicate with Team Leads to develop plans to meet shipping deadlines


* Coordinate closely with the Customer Service Liaison on customer shipping/delivery dates.


* Works with Production Control, Manufacturing, and Quality Control to level shipping workload.


* Schedules equipment necessary for delivering customer product to the destination.


* Tracks orders in transit and provides customer updates as required.


* Make financially sound decisions leveraging a freight quoting process. 


* Maintains records and review shipping documents such as bills of lading, packing slips, and tags. 


* Evaluates and determines feasibility to consolidate freight and reduce freight costs. 


* Coordinate shipments with consignee to schedule offload appointments


* Ship orders in SAP and Access, and then submit ship log to Accounting


* Scan BOLs and upload to Connect with inspection records


* Provides information to BAC field representatives on freight quotes.


* Works with customers to resolve shipping problems such as delivery, damage, claims, etc. 


* Maintain reports such as monthly sales r...