QC Planner

Bison Transport Inc; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Bison Transport Inc is seeking a QC Planner in Mississauga to coordinate assets and forecast availability to satisfy client, driver, and company needs. The role focuses on predicting asset potential in the region and acquiring freight to optimize asset utilization in the company's best interests.

Ideal candidates will have 1-3 years in transportation or logistics with strong analytical, communication, and teamwork abilities.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of transportation or logistics experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated skills in aligning goals with strategic direction to achieve targeted business results.
• Proven team player with ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of company goals, work direction and practices.

Responsibilities

• Establish and forecast customer needs and demands. Corporate accounts will involve monitoring, forecasting and servicing the client’s needs on a regular basis.
• Establish resource availability through analysis of the drivers, tractors and trailers in their region and interpret what restrictions and opportunities they present.
• Assemble the overall strategy by taking all relevant information, developing a plan and communicating it in an effective and timely manner to the Fleet Manager for execution.
• Contribute to an environment where customers/operations can comfortably and confidently communicate their transportation needs.
• Support the Operations team in an effort to achieve departmental objectives.
• Involvement in issues outside of their region or regular scope of duties is required.
• Identify trouble situations and constructively react to those that cannot be foreseen.
• Exchange of relevant information such as business trends, customer issues and opportunities.
• Handle customer inquiries off the general queue in a pleasant and efficient manner.
• Engage in other projects and activities as is necessary to the position and as assigned by the City Operation Supervisor.

Job description

About the Position

As a QC Planner, you are responsible for coordinating assets to satisfy the needs of clients, drivers and the company. Your key role as Planner is to accurately predict availability and potential of assets in your assigned region, and properly acquire freight to effectively utilize those assets in the best of interest of the company. You are a natural problem solver that realizes opportunities and communicates them in a thorough and timely fashion with all co-workers.

Specific Responsibilities

• Establish and forecast customer needs and demands. Corporate accounts will involve monitoring, forecasting and servicing the client’s needs on a regular basis.
• Establish resource availability through analysis of the drivers, tractors and trailers in their region and interpret what restrictions and opportunities they present.
• Assemble the overall strategy by taking all relevant information, developing a plan and communicating it in an effective and timely manner to the Fleet Manager for execution.
• Contribute to an environment where customers/operations can comfortably and confidently communicate their transportation needs.
• Support the Operations team in an effort to achieve departmental objectives.
• Involvement in issues outside of their region or regular scope of duties is required.
• Identify trouble situations and constructively react to those that cannot be foreseen.
• Exchange of relevant information such as business trends, customer issues and opportunities.
• Handle customer inquiries off the general queue in a pleasant and efficient manner.
• Engage in other projects and activities as is necessary to the position and as assigned by the City Operation Supervisor.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 1-3 years of previous transportation or logistics experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated skills in aligning goals with strategic direction to achieve targeted business results.
• Proven team player with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and to develop and maintain collaborative working relationship.
• Strong knowledge of company goals, work direction and practices.

This position is subject to a Continental day shift, 06:00 - 18:00 ET, on a 2-2-3 rotating schedule.

Why Bison

• Thrive in a supportive team that provides coaching and training to help develop your skills and progress your career
• Dispersed work environments that promote a healthy work-life balance
• Meaningful and impactful work and projects with an essential service provider
• Join our engaging Wellness Program & extracurricular sports teams

About Bison

• Celebrating over 50 years in Business
• Active in giving back through Corporate Social Responsibility and Charitable Giving
• Committed to environmental sustainability

Bison Transport is committed to Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace.

Background and suitability for a career in Transportation is wide ranging. Some of our brightest people have joined us with no previous "trucking" experience. We always say we work in the "people business". So, whether you have a background in the airline, automotive, retail or hospitality industries, to name a few, your experience is valuable and we are bound to find many transferrable skills. We are ready to welcome exceptional, high potential contributors who aspire to lead people and processes in the pursuit of service excellence in a highly dynamic and collaborative environment. We seek team players who are eager to learn our business from the ground up, are able to demonstrate a track record of strong performance and possess a sincere interest in growing their careers in the transportation arena. We seek top notch communicators who adopt a driver of change mindset of "how can we be better, do better and get better results".