Transportation Coordinator - 1st Shift

What you’ll do:

The Transportation Coordinator is responsible for administering transportation in the Shipping Department.  Daily activities include identifying consolidation opportunities, quoting, scheduling, documentation and addressing emails from carriers. 
    
•    Responsible for organizing and executing the work schedule for outbound shipments
•    Proficient in operations planning with a Transportation Management Systems (TMS).
•    Correctly troubleshoot, investigate, resolve, and/or escalate issues with suggested resolution.
•    Monitor carriers (Private Fleet, Dedicated Fleet, and Common Carriers) to ensure daily transportation operations run safely, efficiently, and on time.
•    Assist in the development, planning, and modification of daily schedules as appropriate; make notifications to customer service and the operations manager as to the status of shipments.
•    Accurately enter data into the transportation management system; maintain and generate required reports.
•    Track and trace activities to ensure optimal service.
•    Coordinates activities with fulfillment team, the customer and/or other suppliers as needed.
•    Master of skills in the following areas; Organization, communication, problem resolution, analytics, both tactical and strategic planning, and problem solving.
•    Performs other duties as assigned depending on area supported.
•    Confirm pickups with transportation partners electronically or over the phone
•    Ensuring high service levels on tendered shipments (tracking and monitoring to delivery)
•    Fielding internal customer service requests and inquiries
   o    Changes to orders (terms, carrier)
   o    Handling and/or routing order-specific requests
   o    Rate-shopping non-standard orders for sales quotation/bid purposes
   o    Identify qualified potential transportation providers to handle shipments
   o    Secure quote and calculate markup    
   o    Provide quick turnaround to sales to help secure the order

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
•    Must have a high school/GED from an accredited institution
•    Must have a minimum of one (1) year logistics, shipping and/or warehouse

No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Woodridge, IL will be considered. Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc. 

 
Preferred Qualifications:
•    Understanding of carrier capabilities
•    SAP and WMS Experience a plus

Skills:

Position Criteria:
•    Ability to effectively communicate with internal customers and external customers/vendors
•    Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
•    Attention to detail and accuracy
•    Time management, multi-tasking and self starter
•    Verbal and written communication skills