Freight Coordinator

Job Summary

Eggs Unlimited is a fast-growing, family-owned company headquartered in Irvine, California. We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and detail-driven Freight Coordinator to join our logistics team. This role plays a critical part in keeping freight moving, customers informed, shipments on schedule, and operational issues resolved quickly.

Responsibilities

• Schedule and coordinate shipments, ensuring efficient routing, timely delivery, accurate system updates, and strong follow-through from pickup through delivery.
• Communicate directly with carriers, vendors, customers, and internal teams to confirm availability, coordinate shipment details, provide updates, and resolve logistics-related concerns.
• Negotiate freight rates with carriers when needed while balancing cost, service, timing, and reliability.
• Track active shipments and proactively identify delays, missed appointments, carrier issues, documentation gaps, or communication breakdowns.
• Provide timely shipment updates to customers and internal stakeholders to ensure transparency, alignment, and confidence in execution.
• Maintain accurate shipping documentation, including invoices, bills of lading, shipment records, carrier confirmations, and other logistics-related documentation.
• Use logistics systems, tracking tools, Excel, Outlook, and other platforms to monitor shipments, update records, generate reports, and support freight visibility.
• Collaborate with logistics, procurement, sales, accounting, warehouse partners, vendors, and carriers to ensure shipments align with customer needs and company goals.
• Address shipment delays and day-to-day logistics issues quickly, escalating major problems when necessary while staying engaged until resolution.
• Help resolve logistics challenges such as miscommunications, missed deadlines, carrier no-shows, routing issues, documentation discrepancies, or customer delivery concerns.
• Support freight coordination across full truckload, less-than-truckload, intermodal, or other transportation modes as applicable.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, documentation standards, transportation requirements, and industry best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve freight coordination, reduce errors, increase visibility, strengthen carrier performance, and improve overall logistics execution.
• Aid in special projects related to logistics optimization, customer onboarding, reporting, process improvements, system updates, or operational efficiency.
• Operate with urgency, accuracy, and accountability in a very high-volume, fast-moving environment where priorities can shift quickly and responsiveness, flexibility, adaptability, and follow-through are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in logistics, transportation planning, freight coordination, carrier operations, load planning, supply chain operations, or a related field.
• Experience scheduling, tracking & coordinating freight shipments in a very high-volume, fast-moving environment (e.g., managing 100+ loads per week) where priorities can shift quickly and responsiveness, flexibility, adaptability, and follow-through are essential.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with carriers, vendors, customers, and internal teams.
• Multiple years of experience negotiating with carriers or vendors strongly preferred.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple shipments, deadlines, priorities, and follow-ups at the same time.
• High attention to detail, especially with shipment documentation, invoices, bills of lading, system updates, and customer/carrier communication.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and related business tools.
• Experience with logistics software, TMS, WMS, ERP systems, SAP, Epicor, or similar platforms preferred.
• Familiarity with transportation regulations, shipping documentation, safety standards, and logistics best practices preferred.
• Ability to work under pressure, adapt quickly, solve problems, and stay composed when shipments do not go according to plan.
• High flexibility and adaptability, with the ability to pivot quickly as shipment needs, customer requests, carrier availability, and internal priorities change throughout the day.
• An analytical mindset with the ability to review shipment data, identify issues, create reports, and support continuous improvement.
• A strong work ethic, ownership mindset, and willingness to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
• Ability to work 100% on-site in Irvine, CA and provide occasional overtime or weekend support as business needs require.

Pay

Base Salary: $31-$36+ / hour

Schedule

This position is 100% based in our Irvine, CA office and may require occasional overtime and/or weekend support based on business needs.