Dispatcher

PURPOSE

Assigns motor vehicles and drivers for conveyance of building materials.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Compiles list of available vehicles.
• Assigns vehicles according to factors such as length and purpose of trip, freight or passenger requirements, and preference of user.
• Assigns orders to lift operators to be pulled from inventory.
• Issues keys, record sheets, and credentials to drivers.
• Records time of departure, destination, cargo, and expected time of return.
• Investigates overdue vehicles.
• Directs activities of drivers by two-way radio.
• Confers with customers to expedite or locate missing, misrouted, delayed, or damaged merchandise.
• Maintains record of mileage, fuel used, repairs made, and other expenses.
• Establishes service or delivery routes.
• Sets up helpers to drivers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Six months to one year related experience and/or training.
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Competencies

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write basic business correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from employees, customers, and members of management.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment / Physical Activity

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.