Battery Solutions Hiring for Fleet Supervisor Job at Wixom, MI Full Time

Sustainability is the cornerstone for creating a better future. From electric vehicles, to supporting backups in renewable energy sources, to enhancing our everyday lives in phones and watches, batteries have become an internal part of our lives. At Battery Solutions, we help our customers enhance their sustainability programs by supporting their battery recycling efforts. As the leader in our field, we set the standards for product and service offerings.

Our team members are committed to sustainability and lead the charge to help our business grow and support the environment. With our new facility completed in 2019 to provide open workspaces and more storage, we take pride in our buildings and team. We believe in employee development, which is why we offer opportunities for employee training and growth.

The Fleet Manager is responsible for managing a team of drivers both locally and in Mesa. This includes customer service, on-time delivery of service, quality and cost. This person must manage internal processes, and external vendors effectively to ensure a safe and productive operation. This role must create trucking routes that keep costs down but meet customer needs. Although an operations role, this professional is expected to interface directly with customers, company drivers, vendors and other members of the Logistics team. Therein, position is responsible for:

• Develop delivery routes and maintain contact with drivers throughout the day.
• Schedule, route, maintain, and track transport vehicles.
• Provide correct DOT regulated documents to customers and drivers when scheduling.
• Collaborate with management and the warehouse to modify daily routes to accommodate the customers and space restraints internally.
• Monitoring the fleet of vehicles & transporters ensuring on time delivery.
• Cultivate strong relationships with drivers and customers to reduce the stress that comes with last minute schedule changes.
• Prepare accurate reports for upper management.
• Work with Manager, Supply Chain and Fleet to identify and solve logistics issues using problem solving tools and techniques. Responsibilities would include clearly identifying root cause of problems occurring in logistics, vendor management, or logistics quality of the business.
• Monitor any sudden route changes or road construction issues and work with drivers to establish new routes for timely deliveries.
• Schedule the preventative maintenance for all company vehicles.
• Monitoring driver behavior and ensuring a high level of customer service.
• Develop a strategy for decreasing vehicle cost, and create the most efficient routes
• Create reports of driver productivity & routes effectiveness.
• Conduct random inspections of vehicles within the fleet
• Lead corrective actions and capacity building to manage the entire fleet to achieve company objectives.
• Assisting in the recruitment of quality drivers into the fleet.
• Ensure vehicle registration, insurance formalities and documentation beside ensure induction of new vehicles in existing fleet.
• Ability to read, understand and create BOL’s
• Knowledge of DAT load boards
• Quick thinker who can adapt to changing transportation scenarios
• Familiar with assessorial charges and events and can work with drivers/brokers to get issues resolved
• Develop and implement standard operational standards to vehicles by advocating best practices in industry.

Job Skills and Work Experience:

• Ability to work independently and multitask in a fast-paced, detail and production-oriented environment
• Possesses a strong work ethic and team player mentality
• Intermediate proficiency with MS Office (with emphasis on MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of laws, regulations and DOT requirements;

Education and Training Requirements:

• BS/BA in business administration, supply chain management or relevant field- or currently pursuing a degree in one of these fields.
• 7-10 years’ experience dispatching trucks with a brokerage or asset-based trucking company
• Route planning experience
• 7-10 years’ experience in an account management role
• Proven experience as a logistics coordinator or scheduling loads.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• What are your salary requirements?

Education:

• Associate (Preferred)

Experience:

• dispatch: 7 years (Preferred)

Work Location: One location