Lead Dispatcher - Shavings

About the Role

Responsible for the effective coordination of receiving materials (feed, ingredients, shavings, etc.), maintaining accurate inventories, and delivering products to various company locations including farms, feed mills, and processing facilities. At Butterball, we exist to help people pass love on. As the most recognized name in turkey, the brand represents more than 60 years of cherished memories, providing quality, great-tasting products that make meals something to celebrate every day.

Responsibilities

• Ensures successful inbound and outbound flow of goods, including routing trucks for most efficient delivery.
• Maintains a computer inventory of incoming and outgoing products on a daily basis.
• Reviews production schedules and current inventory reports to plan procurement needs.
• Coordinates receiving and deliveries, reprioritizing as needed.
• Communicates locations, routes, schedules, etc. with relevant parties (i.e., leaders, growers, vendors, service techs, drivers).
• Urgently responds to business needs and resolves operational and delivery conflicts as they arise.
• Ensures accurate and timely deliveries of products to and from field locations.
• Uses computerized tools and reports to monitor and optimize efficiency and accuracy of fleet operations.
• Enters tickets into online system for processing and payments.
• Creates and maintains various reports on inventories and metrics for production, quality, timeliness, maintenance, discrepancies, etc.
• Coordinates fleet maintenance with shop and delivery schedules.
• Assists with new driver on-boarding, training, and remedial training.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience or the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in the role.

Skills

Butterball Core Competencies

• Safety First: We put safety first. The health, safety, and well-being of our people, products, and turkeys is everyone's responsibility and everyone's job.
• Integrity: We trust each other to do the right thing. We act with integrity and gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, respect, and authenticity.
• Stewardship: We take care of what matters. We are accountable to our commitments and take responsibility for the well-being of our teams, our quality, our customers, our business, our brand, and our communities. We are always answerable for our actions and those we lead.
• Enthusiastic Attitudes: We create a climate where everyone feels they belong and can be engaged, every day. Where our people are enthusiastic and motivated to do their best and work together to make great things happen.
• Continuous Improvement: We are committed to continuous improvement. We challenge ourselves and our company to constantly learn, develop, grow, improve, and innovate.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience working with computerized inventory tracking.
• Proficiency in MS Office, with advanced knowledge in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong communication, organizational, time-management, and multi-tasking skills.
• Solid critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to coach, train, and support peers.
• Ability to handle conflict appropriately.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Associate's degree in transportation, logistics, or management.
• Working knowledge of DOT regulations and scheduling of internal fleet equipment.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard, and occasionally lift up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions

• Work is performed in a climate-controlled office environment.
• The noise level of the environment is usually moderate.
• Occasional travel may be required.