Transportation Router
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At The Chefs' Warehouse Inc., we are dedicated to providing our employees the tools to succeed, as well as to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
We offer the following benefits:
- Competitive pay
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Healthcare Coverage
- Flex Spending Account
- Paid Holidays, Vacation and Sick
- The opportunity for growth at a rapidly expanding company
Position Overview:
The individual for this position will be joining a rapidly growing, publicly held company. The position will be based out of the company's largest operating region, and provides great opportunity for growth within the organization. This position falls under the general direction of the National Routing Director. Will support all aspects of the regional transportation network to include routing, delivery window efficiency, territory planning, assignment of drivers and vehicles, usage of equipment and customer service.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
Transportation Router is primarily responsible for developing and implementing cost effective routing solutions to a wide range of customers in NY, NJ ,CT, FL, MD, OH and IL while insuring the highest level of customer satisfaction. The Transportation Router will monitoring time delivery window compliance, route within DOT Hours of Service and recommend route improvements by considering traffic patterns, parking challenges and will anticipate other factors impacting our ability to deliver within specified delivery windows.
The Transportation Router also:
- Conducts continuous analysis of route, vehicle and driver assignments and reviews scheduling for possible consolidation or improvements.
- Assists with planning and implementing vehicle scheduling, resource allocation, routing, dispatching, and communication functions in accordance with established policies and objectives to optimize economical utilization of company assets.
- Develops route and stop logic and ensure customer service levels are at or above company expectations.
- Interface with warehouse operations to insure best practice truck loading logic is always in place using the TruckBuilder software.
- Incorporates daily and weekly vendor pickups, into routing sessions. Allocates equipment and driver resources for scheduled and unscheduled deliveries, pick-ups and other assignments.
- Collaborates with Fleet Team to match available vehicles with delivery requirements, distance requirements and customer requirements.
- Reviews current routing procedures, provides guidance to resolve technical problems, analyzes costs, recommends and executes cost control measures.
- Communicates load requisites, routes sequencing, customer accommodations and schedules with the Night Warehouse Management Team to prioritize order selection process.
- Performs daily maintenance of Roadnet® system and incorporates real time recommendations from drivers and sales team to optimize routing performance.
- Prints pick tickets as orders are entered, avidly problem solves pick requirements submitted passed cut off times
- Maintains new customer stops through validation of address, parameters and constraints.
- Creates and generates relevant Roadnet® and other systems reports.
- Reviews special requests notifications, customer pickups, and incorporates into routing sessions.
- Communicates any truck, driver/helper, or customer related issues to the dispatch department via an end of night report.
- Reviews routes from the previous day and adjust routing strategies/passes based on improving overall delivery performance metrics.
- Reviews route sheets for new customers and assigns time windows conducive with the region in which they are located.
- Ensures compliance with federal, state and local DOT guidelines in regards to routing time and drivers' hours of service.
- Handles miscellaneous activities related to routing as directed by manager.
About Chefs Warehouse:
The Chefs' Warehouse is a specialty food distributor that began sourcing products for high-end chefs over 30 years ago. With locations in major metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada, The Chefs' Warehouse serves the finest restaurants, hotels, caterers and gourmet stores in North America.
Minimum Job Requirements:
- High School degree or GED Required, College degree preferred
- 2-4 years of routing experience preferred.
- Basic understanding of Roadnet Transportation Suite preferred.
- Basic understanding of transportation safety guidelines, and DOT procedures related to routing
- Strong communication and team building skills
- Proficient with all Microsoft Office Suites
- Able to impact positive change