Transportation Planner

Carrier; Indiana (PA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diverse workforce

Potential for professional growth

Job summary

Carrier, a leader in building and cold chain solutions, is looking for a Transportation Planner in Indiana, PA. The role focuses on coordinating daily shipments and managing transportation planning to ensure efficient delivery.

Qualified candidates will have a High School Diploma and at least 1 year of transportation planning experience, preferably with familiarity in ERP systems. This position offers the chance to work in a collaborative environment, contributing to delivering sustainable services that impact people's lives.

Qualifications

• 1+ years direct transportation planning experience required.
• Experience working with Transportation Providers.
• 2+ years in Transportation/Logistics preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate daily shipments and oversee accessorial approval.
• Manage Salesforce & Accessorial Administration.
• Plan and consolidate daily transportation operations.

Skills

Transportation planning experience

ERP systems knowledge

Microsoft Office skills

Project management

Customer service orientation

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelors degree (preferred)

Job description

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About this role

The Transportation Planner is responsible for coordinating daily shipments, maintaining Salesforce system and overseeing accessorial approval.

Key Responsibilities

• Primary resource for Salesforce & Accessorial Administration
• Daily transportation planning consolidation and building of outbound shipments via TMS to ensure on-time delivery at lowest reasonable cost.
• Tendering and acceptance of all shipments daily via contracted Truckload, Intermodal, LTL, Small Parcel, and Flatbed transportation providers.
• Manage daily hot requests to ensure prioritized for planning and transmitted to warehouse to ensure on-time delivery.
• Set delivery appointments to ensure earliest possible delivery based on DC capacity and provider transit time.
• Manage timely and accurate communications (Email, Phone, etc) to internal and external customers.
• Provide daily shipment plan to Distribution Centers based on forecast and capability.
• Identify and execute continuous improvement opportunities that reduced delivered cost while improving on-time delivery.
• Provide EOD status report to leadership measuring daily performance as well as opportunities for improvement. Highly efficient project management abilities and the ability to balance multiple projects

Basic Qualifications

• High School Diploma
• 1+ years direct transportation planning experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree preferred
• 2+ years Transportation/Logistics Experience
• Experience working directly with Transportation Providers required
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc)

• Passion for servicing customers. Ability to listen to customer needs and quickly act to solve their problems, go above and beyond to exceed their expectations

• Proven ability to execute with speed and exhibit a bias for action mindset

• Ability to think outside the box, innovate, take risks and implement progressive, sustainable solutions
• Strong ability to build diverse, cross functional project teams to achieve high levels of performance in a dynamic, changing environment

• Must have superior skills with Microsoft Office Excel, Project, Word and PowerPoint