Transportation Manager

Basic Job Concept: Positively impact people & process! In this role you will effect change, be yourself, and have a positive impact on our company our community and our future!

Who You Are: You are self-motivated. You think like an entrepreneur, constantly innovating and driving positive change, but more importantly you consistently deliver mind-boggling results! You love people, processes, and performance. You believe in the power of 'team' and are driven by a sincere desire to see others succeed. You are a change agent, live culture, and believe in community. You seek collaboration to find the best answers and are not afraid to take calculated risk. You are hardworking and always put your safety, and the safety of those around you FIRST!

What You'll Do:

• Be an active member of an epically awesome team!
• Live out our culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration.
• Deliver on a variety of functional and strategic logistic initiatives.
• Create and implement new ways to make Foster-Caviness a fun and exciting place to work!
• Facilitate all facets of team building and people leadership.

• Flexibility to work various shifts/days to meet the ever-expanding need of our business and customers, 5-6 days a week, Monday-Saturday, depending on need. Hours are flexible as well, but typically day shift hours.

• Ensure all associates are engaged, empowered, and accountable to win.
• Ensure processes are relevant and consistently executed with greatness and accuracy i.e. routing, dispatch, check-in, fleet management, policies and procedure adherence.
• Manage and modernize process to ensure exceptional service levels.
• Perform ride-along evaluations with Delivery Drivers as needed.
• Drive change to streamline processes and find new ways/better ways to deliver excellence to our customer partners.
• Care so much for our people that you refuse to allow them to be unsafe.
• Work in a way that is collaborative, inclusive, and consistently cool.
• Help design and deploy innovative ways to develop drivers and transportation team members.
• Partner with people to identify new human needs and corresponding solutions.

• Personally own the responsibilities of ensuring people are paid correctly, enjoy the benefits we offer, and understand how they contribute.
• Build, lead, and develop a winning team.
• Innovate and create new methods to increase asset utilization.
• Identify and deliver market disrupting service solutions!

What You'll Bring to the Table:

• A sincere passion for positively impacting people and making work, fun (this is first on the list for a reason!)
• Insightful, meaningful, relevant relationship skills.
• A proven track record of being a bad*@# transportation expert including 5 years managing a trucking/dispatch/driver fleet with positive results, growing the business and making wise spend decisions. Leadership covering multiple supervisors, dispatchers and drivers.
• A must is a strong knowledge of DOT Hours of Service Rules and managing the fleet of drivers to these rules.
• A hunger to learn and grow.
• Experience managing a fleet in a package car or similar environment.
• Creative new ideas on how we can better serve our community of employees and customers.
• An extreme sense of ownership (meaning you treat every person, every function, everything as if you were the owner of this company). Ability to assess an unforeseen situation, such as a vehicle malfunction, determine immediate needs and work to get the driver and business moving again.
• Ability to coach and train drivers on safe driving methods through structured session, video review, observation - Smith System certification a plus.
• A minimum of 1 year experience with Omnitracs Roadnet Anywhere routing software; understanding routing, efficiency, and how to improve our business through proper utilization.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft office products, specifically Excel and Word.
• Commitment, loyalty, integrity, compassion, empathy and patience.
• A proven skill set and knowledge base of people leadership, transportation related laws/regulations.
• A Class A CDL is desirable; or applicable experience moving Class A equipment on company property when needed.
• Is a professional through and through. Exemplifies a positive attitude with direct and indirect reports.
• Willingness to travel as needed