Asphalt Dispatcher

Vulcan Materials Company; Napa (CA); On-site; USD 55,104,000 - 68,880,000; Full time

Job summary

Vulcan Materials Company in Napa, California, is seeking a hands-on operations role supporting loading, dispatch, and delivery activities for customers across the region.

You will review orders, coordinate drivers, ensure proper loading, and complete daily reports. This position offers a stable role within a respected construction materials provider and opportunities to contribute to ensuring timely deliveries.

Responsibilities

• Know Business Demands: review schedule and customer orders throughout shifts.
• Direct Loading and Delivery: guide plant operators, loaders, drivers, and trucks to the correct loads and delivery sites.
• Follow Loading Procedures: weigh trucks and print delivery tickets for loads leaving the yard.
• Report Issues: quickly escalate delivery problems to service or sales for resolution.
• Receive Customer Orders: take orders by phone, radio, or in person; advise on delivery policies; record orders.
• Determine Schedules: balance delivery times and rates; plan drivers for the next business day.
• Complete Daily Reports: document product sales, allowances, adjustments, and delivery issues.
• Additional Responsibilities: other duties as assigned.

Job description

Build Your Career. Build America’s Future.

Vulcan Materials Company is the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. When you join Vulcan, it’s more than starting an exciting career – you get to make a difference for millions of people every day across the country.

When you join Vulcan, you join a dynamic culture in which career development is encouraged, excellence is rewarded and diversity is valued. No matter the role or the location across the country, every member of the Vulcan team lives through the Vulcan Way: doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time.

What You’ll Do:

• Know Business Demands. Become thoroughly familiar with the day’s business demands by reviewing schedule and individual customer orders and the beginning of and continuously during shifts.
• Direct Loading and Delivery. Direct Plant Operators, Loader Operators, Drivers, or Batch Plant Operators regarding which material to load on trucks. Direct Drivers regarding which customer job site to receive delivery.
• Follow Loading Procedures. Weigh Company and non-company trucks on truck scale before and after being loaded with aggregate products. Write or print delivery tickets for all loads of material leaving the yard.
• Report Issues. Immediately report any delivery problems to service or sales representatives for quick resolution or mitigation.
• Receive Customer Orders. Receive customer orders, mostly by telephone, but also from drivers on Company radio, service or sales representatives over radio or in person, and occasionally by customers in person. Assist customers in identifying proper products needed for specific end uses. Advise customers on Company order confirmation and delivery policies. Record customer orders on order form and in schedule book as received.
• Determine Schedules. Tactfully balance cost effective delivery times and rates for Company with customer demands. Make schedule for drivers for next business day in correspondence with customer order requirements.
• Complete Daily Reports. Complete reports daily on product sales, product allowances and adjustments, delivery problems, and other matters.
• Additional Responsibilities. Other duties as assigned.