Transportation Planner

Company Description"We're not in the shipping business; we're in the information business"
-Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder As a Fortune 500 company, Expeditors employs more than 15,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 300 locations across six continents. Expeditorssatisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.

Our services include the consolidation and forwarding of air or ocean freight,customs brokerage, vendor consolidation, cargo insurance, time-definite transportation, order management, warehousing, distribution and customized logistics solutions. Expeditors is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

We believe our employees are our greatest competitive advantage, by focusing onour values and culture we make Expeditors' greatest competitive advantage inglobal supply chain services."You'd be surprised how far we'll go for you."Job Description Scope of Position:

The Expeditors Ground Network Service (GNS) is a dynamic team that is responsible for the design, implementation and execution of a line haul network that supports all of the Expeditors' products and services. The GNS Team has responsibilities of Customer Service, Network Management, Service Provider Management, Procurement, and Compliance amongst many others. The Transportation Planner is a GNS Central position assisting in all aspects of daily line-haul network operations and support.

Main focus on administration and branch support, but will also assist in monitoring all carriers and ad hoc activity for on-time departures, load tracking in transit, and timely arrivals. This person may arrange contingencies when needed and communicates delays and issues between branches, gateways, and carriers. GNS Transportation Planner should be detail oriented, curious, and flexible to identify and solve issues quickly and accurately.

The Transportation Planner will have regular and consistent communication with the Expeditors Network, the GNS Network (central and regional hubs) and Service Providers.

Schedule:

Monday - Friday (various shifts 0600 - 1900)
Major Duties and Responsibilities Tracking / Tracing Ensure all routes expected to depart and arrive during scheduled shift have been confirmed for assigned region

Follow up on all in-transit trucks to ensure accurate ETA is available daily

Resolve escalations for excessive detention

Ensure exceptions are filed and delays communicated with origin/destination teams

Exception Communication / Management In-transit Delays Route Cancellations Loading / Unloading Delays Communication with Hub / inland offices

Monitor Lane Volumes Identifying and Collaborating with Regional Hub for Capacity additions, subtractions and re-routes

Recommend new routes / departure days or times

Procuring Additional Capacity Work with Carriers to add unscheduled trucks

Work with Regional Hub on scheduled departure needs

Forecast future needs and seek capacity a few days ahead

Daily procurement of additional trucks

Weekend capacity planning and procurement

Regional Service Provider Relationships (existing / new)
Work with Regional Hub Manager to grow relationships with local carrier pools

Build direct relationships with Existing and New Regional Providers Communication with Hub / inland offices

Daily check in calls with Regional Hub Weekly (minimum) check in with inland offices within assigned region

Monitor new shipping volumes and changes to existing shipping patterns

Have a working knowledge of larger volume shippers in region

Recommend new lane / schedule changes

Work through Supervisor and Operations Manager to identify new dedicated needs

Make recommendations to the scheduling / planning team Activity Analysis Ad-Hoc…