Transportation Management Coordinator

Job Description

As a Transportation Management Coordinator, you will use your organizational skills to schedule and coordinate transportation for personnel and equipment, ensuring cargo and soldiers reach their required destinations. With more than 50,000 heavy trucks and buses in operation, you will oversee the scheduling of semi‑tractor trailers, heavy troop transports, and passenger buses.

• Maintain convoy schedules, bills of lading, and transportation plans.
• Advise constituents on shipment and travel entitlements.
• Request and coordinate transport capability and secure transportation for personnel and equipment.
• Mark, document, and inventory freight, cargo, and material shipments.
• Operate automated data terminal equipment and prepare necessary documentation and reports.
• Perform system administrator duties such as installing software and uploading data to computer systems.
• Prepare equipment, cargo, and personnel for travel to airports, seaports, and railways.

Training consists of 10 weeks of Basic Training covering fundamental soldiering skills and six weeks of Advanced Individual Training (AIT) focused on transportation management. You will receive a regular paycheck and qualify for tuition assistance while training.

• Paid training and a monthly paycheck.
• Montgomery GI Bill and federal and state tuition assistance.
• Retirement benefits for part‑time service.
• Low‑cost life insurance (up to $400,000).
• 401(k)-type savings plan.
• Student loan repayment program (up to $50,000 for existing loans).
• Health care benefits available.
• VA home loans.
• Bonuses, if applicable.

• Military enlistment in the Army National Guard.
• Must be at least a junior in high school, or have a high school diploma or a GED certificate.
• Must be between the ages of 17 and 35.
• Must be able to pass a physical exam and meet legal and moral standards.
• Must meet citizenship requirements. (See  for details.)