Transportation Router

Transportation Router

The Transportation Router y's Food Bank is responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimizing delivery routes for semi‑trailer trucks and Route Drivers to ensure timely, cost‑effective, and efficient transportation of food to and from St. Mary's Food Bank locations, partner agencies, and food rescue partners. This role is central to logistics and delivery operations, focusing on route planning, scheduling, and coordination to meet delivery demands while maximizing fleet utilization and minimizing costs.

• Route Planning & Optimization:
  Review customer orders and develop delivery routes that consider shipment load, distance, traffic, delivery time windows, and customer unloading requirements to maximize efficiency.
• Coordination:
  Coordinate with the invoicing team to ensure all reships, POS, and stops are accurately routed and develop batches and coordinate the truck loading with the warehouse staff.
• Fleet Utilization:
  Determine the most precise use of available trucks, including cubic space utilization, to meet delivery demands.
• Driver Assignment:
  Assign routes to drivers, including backhaul orders, ensuring each driver is assigned to the most efficient area.
• Loading & Driver Sheets:
  Prepare and update loading and driver sheets with accurate stop lists, and maintain weekly/master sheets for planning and evaluation.
• Customer Integration:
  Incorporate customer delivery and unloading time requirements into routing schedules.
• Real Time Monitoring:
  Review truck mileage and tracking data, especially for out of state deliveries, to support planning and performance evaluation.
• Problem Solving:
  Adjust routes in response to traffic delays, truck breakdowns, or schedule changes, and coordinate alternative transportation when needed.
• Communication:
  Maintain clear communication with drivers, customers, agency partners and other internal and external stakeholders to provide updates and resolve issues.
• Other duties as assigned by leader.

• Requires extensive sitting with periodic standing and walking.
• May be required to lift 10-20 pounds.
• Requires significant use of personal computer, phone and general office equipment.
• Needs adequate visual acuity, ability to grasp and handle objects.
• Needs ability to communicate effectively through reading, writing, and speaking in person or on telephone.
• May require off-site travel.

• Minimum High School diploma with a 4‑year BA/BS college degree or equivalent certifications in the logistics field is preferred but not required.
• 2+ years related experience preferred.
• Experience with Roadnet Routing Software or similar routing programs.
• Teamwork – Balances team and individual responsibilities; contributes to building a positive team spirit; supports everyone's efforts to succeed.
• Treats people with respect; inspires the trust of others; works with integrity and ethically; upholds organizational values.
• Follows policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; measures self against standard of excellence.
• Uses time efficiently.
• Approaches others in a tactful manner; reacts well under pressure; treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; accepts responsibility for own actions; follows through on commitments.
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Meets productivity standards; completes work in timely manner; strives to increase productivity; works quickly.
• Observes safety and security procedures; determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; reports potentially unsafe conditions; uses equipment and materials properly.
• Adapts to changes in the work environment; able to deal with frequent changes, delays, or unexpected events.
• Arrives at work and on time; arrives at meetings and appointments on time.
• Follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; completes tasks on time or notifies…