EHC is currently looking for a Warehouse Dispatcher for a client located in Hammond, IN.
Job Summary:
Perform logistics functions that may include reviewing, preparing and routing shipments, coordinating drivers, work crews, vehicles or equipment to appropriate locations according to schedules or customer requests.
Qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and logistics software
- Excellent clerical and organizational skills to keep track of schedules, routes and personnel
- Knowledge of computers for scheduling and other dispatching duties
- Ability to multitask with different events happening at the same time
- Ability to work under stress and remain calm
- Ability to relay information in a fast-paced environment
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for calculating routes and times of deliveries and making the necessary adjustments for sales and customers
- Establish delivery routes which are cost effective and compliant with Federal DOT guidelines while still maintaining an acceptable level of customer service, quality and satisfaction
- Ensuring the safe and timely pick-up and delivery of shipments
- Scheduling and dispatching drivers, work crews, vehicles or equipment to appropriate locations according to schedules
- Relaying information such as work orders or other messages to and from work crews or supervisors
- Using telephones, two-way radios or outlook email to contact employees
- Speaking with supervisor or customers to resolve problems, requests for services or equipment
- Preparing daily work such as schedules
- Preparing work orders for crew or receiving work orders from work crews
- Being in charge of communications within company assigned territories
- Keeping and organizing work requests, customer requests, completed work requests, charges for work performed, expenses for services performed, inventory records and other information.
Physical Requirements:
- Position works primarily in a warehouse environment
- Constant telephone activity; must have a high comfort level of initiating conversation
- Moderate noise levels
- Occupation requires being sedentary greater than or equal to 80% of the time
- Work involves sitting, standing, hearing, talking, handling, reaching outward, reaching above shoulder, walking, squatting or kneeling, bending
- Regularly required to work on multiple concurrent tasks with constant interruptions
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $23.00 - $25.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
Experience:
- Logistics software: 1 year (Required)
- Microsoft Office: 1 year (Required)
- Dispatching warehouse deliveries: 1 year (Required)
- Calculating delivery routes: 1 year (Required)
- Scheduling drivers: 1 year (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Hammond, IN 46320 (Required)
Work Location: In person
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