Lead Driver

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with contractors and freight agents to manage settlements and Com-Vault use.
• Audit and approve invoices and coordinate with corresponding vendors.
• Prepare systems and team members for nightly dispatch and manage load IDs.
• Coordinate with customers, carrier relations and compliance to onboard drivers and warehouse workforce.
• Manage temp employee schedules and hours.
• Coordinate with freight partners and independent contractors to address daily projections and needs.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Build relationships with customers to ensure continued operating improvements.
• Communication at all organizational levels.
• Use of computers including Microsoft Office and other programs.
• Operate vehicles that do not require a commercial driver’s license.
• Pick-up loads and organize freight in an ordered, logical manner.
• Safely and efficiently handle and unload goods at selected facilities.
• Obtain signatures and/or electronic scans to confirm and complete deliveries.
• Communicate with dispatch as needed.
• Confirm contents of each shipment load matches manifest materials.
• Maintain detailed driving and delivery logs, as applicable.
• Ensure good customer relations by consistently delivering orders on time and behaving with integrity in a courteous and professional manner.
• Adhere to all applicable regulatory standards (including, but not limited to OSHA, DOT, FMCSA, traffic laws).
• Perform other duties assigned by superiors.

The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Physical:

• Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (5-10 pounds).
• Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or work station.
• Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate visual cues or signals.
• Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.