Transportation Manager - 1st Shift

What you’ll do on a typical day

• Maintain responsibility for the overall P&L to meet established budgets and forecasts
• Ensure the effectiveness of the operation’s communication, interaction and relationship with company drivers
• Oversight of the management of tractor maintenance, compliance and service delivery
• Tracking operational performance, including on-time pickup and delivery, volume, equipment balance and empty miles
• Ensuring driver recruiting and retention meets established fleet size goals
• Identifying opportunities to increase performance, improve processes and find efficiencies, and coordinating with leaders to implement solutions
• Investigating and determining the root cause of all service failures; implementing corrective actions whenever necessary
• Developing and modifying operational policies and procedures to meet customer service requirements on both new and existing processes
• Maintaining a safe work environment and fostering a positive team dynamic, resolving employee relations issues and administering corrective action as required
• Ensuring annual profit, efficiency and quality goals are attained at each client engagement
• Directing capital expenditure and asset deployment activities

What you need to succeed at GXO

• 4 years of transportation experience
• In-depth knowledge of the supply chain/logistics industry
• Availability to travel occasionally
• Bachelor’s degree (preferred)
• Project management skills and experience (preferred)
• Proven leadership and collaboration skills with experience effectively supervising, mentoring and influencing employees (preferred)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (preferred)
• Experience as a collaborative, innovative and strategic thinker (preferred)
• Solid customer relationship management skills (preferred)

This job requires the ability to

• Lift objects of various shapes, sizes and weights up to 25 lbs.
• Stand, sit or walk for extended periods of time
• Reach (including above your head), bend, climb, push, pull, twist, squat and kneel