Logistics Planning & Scheduling Specialist

At Coborn’s, Inc., we're more than a grocery retailer. We're a team of proud employee owners working together to serve our guests and communities. As our Logistics Planning & Scheduling Specialist, you’ll play an important role in supporting our transportation operations, ensuring our stores receive the products they need to deliver remarkable guest experiences.

In this role, you’ll coordinate transportation planning, driver scheduling, route assignments, and fleet utilization to support safe, efficient, and reliable delivery operations. You’ll work closely with Logistics leadership, Warehouse Operations, Fleet Maintenance, and transportation partners to respond to changing operational needs, optimize resources, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and control costs.

As an employee owner, your contributions go beyond the daily schedule. Every decision you make helps strengthen our operations, support your fellow employee owners, and contribute to the long-term success of our company.

If you're someone who enjoys problem-solving, coordinating moving parts, and taking ownership of your work, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact and grow your career with an employee-owned organization.

• Plan & Coordinate Transportation: Develop and manage daily and weekly delivery routes, driver schedules, equipment assignments, and staffing coverage to support efficient operations.

• Manage Scheduling & Staffing Needs: Adjust schedules and coordinate coverage for absences, vacations, training, seasonal demands, and unexpected operational changes.

• Optimize Transportation Resources: Evaluate fleet availability, route efficiency, and transportation capacity to improve utilization and control costs.

• Coordinate Transportation Partners: Work with third-party carriers to secure transportation capacity, address service concerns, and maintain reliable delivery operations.

• Collaborate Across Departments: Partner with Logistics, Warehouse Operations, and Fleet Maintenance to coordinate loading schedules, departure times, equipment availability, and delivery priorities.

• Monitor Performance & Improve Processes: Track transportation performance, including mileage, drive time, overtime, staffing coverage, and delivery reliability to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Support Safety & Compliance: Ensure transportation plans and schedules align with DOT regulations, hours-of-service requirements, and company safety standards.

• Maintain Accurate Records: Manage transportation schedules, driver assignments, equipment information, and operational records while supporting ongoing planning and improvement initiatives.

What's In It For Me?

Our remarkable employees are at the heart of everything we do. At Coborn’s, we’re committed to creating a supportive and rewarding workplace—one that offers a vibrant, team-oriented environment, ongoing career growth, and meaningful benefits. As an employee-owned company, we believe in investing in our people and their futures.

We’re proud to offer a variety of benefits to both our full-time and part-time employees, including:

• 10% employee discount on grocery items, with additional franchise-specific discounts available at company owned Ace Hardware, Caribou Coffee, Erbert and Gerbert’s, and Pet Supplies Plus locations.
• Get Paid Daily with Daily Pay – for employees who would like access to their pay before payday, we offer this great benefit!
• Paid Time Off (PTO/Vacation)
• Paid Floating Holidays & time and a half (1 ½) paid for hours worked on a company-recognized holiday!
• Sunday Premium Pay – an extra $1 per hour for hours worked on Sundays (some exclusions apply)
• Paid Military Leave
• Employee recognition programs with monetary rewards including…