Logistics Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end trucking logistics operations, including daily dispatch planning, load sequencing, and coordination of overweight and HAZMAT shipments.
• Oversee the process for awarding loads to truckers, ensuring criteria such as route suitability, permit requirements, safety history, and performance trends are consistently applied.
• Develop and maintain a structured tracking process for all truckers and shipments, including real-time visibility, communication protocols, and exception management.
• Establish and monitor KPIs for each delivery (e.g., on-time performance, incident rate, permit accuracy, cost per mile, HAZMAT compliance), and implement a standardized reporting cadence.
• Work closely with the Corporate Logistics Team on bid requests for project-specific deliveries, taking the lead when trucking operations are involved.
• Support Legal Team to negotiate and write key terms for master contracts with freight forwarders and warehouses/crane yards.
• Manage relationships with carriers, freight partners, and 3PL providers to ensure capacity, reliability, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Resolve trucking-related delays, disruptions, or compliance issues quickly and effectively.
• Maintain and control logistics costs and budgets, identifying opportunities for efficiency improvements within trucking operations.
• Develop and execute pre-shipment trucking inspection processes at the crane yard for battery containers and other project components.
• Analyze operational data to identify inefficiencies and drive continuous improvement initiatives across routing, carrier selection, and load planning.
• Cook up and coordinate closely with procurement and project teams to align delivery schedules, site readiness, and receipt activities.
• Guide and support the logistics operation, ensuring workflows, processes, and performance standards are consistently upheld.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of freight forwarding experience both in operations and managing awards for commercial freight forwarding contracts
• Proven experience managing logistics processes
• Strong knowledge of transportation regulations, overweight permitting, HAZMAT requirements, inventory management, and warehouse/crane yard operations
• Effective communication and negotiation skills
• Experience overseeing logistics workflows or operational teams, including creating and analyzing logistics KPI’s
• Preferred experience with battery energy storage system