Job Description
Job Title: Logistics Specialist (Relay - Tempe)
Job Description
Join an essential team dedicated to optimizing cross-border freight movement, focusing on drayage operations, which involves short-distance freight transport. This role requires managing and overseeing the movement of goods across international borders such as the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, ensuring efficiency and compliance.
Responsibilities
+ Manage cross-border freight movement, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
+ Coordinate drayage operations, focusing on short-haul trucking from ports or border crossings to fulfillment centers or warehouses.
+ Act as a central point for resolving transportation issues involving carriers, vendors, and internal teams.
+ Ensure loads are visible on the app using Excel and portals.
+ Manage disruptions on the portal.
+ Run reports to analyze container movement and identify delays.
+ Track containers in your region and report verbally on issues within your scope.
+ Conduct deep dives into container information and present findings.
+ Work with Excel for tracking containers, utilizing pivots and VLOOKUP's.
+ Communicate effectively via Chime, Slack, email, and bridges.
+ Handle individual workloads with an assigned volume and book of business.
+ Move containers across the supply chain line, track data, and identify nuances.
Essential Skills
+ Strong computer literacy skills, particularly in Excel.
+ Problem-solving capabilities and proactive thinking.
+ Back ground in operations support, logistics, supply chain, transportation, freight, third-party logistics, and vendor management.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
+ Experience supporting logistics, preferably in account management or vendor management roles.
+ Customer/account management experience handling customer accounts is beneficial if logistics experience is not available.
+ Expertise in MS Access and SQL is a plus.
+ Experience in manufacturing transportation customer service and/or distribution environments.
+ Data management and data quality control experience, including pulling and analyzing large data sets.
+ Demonstrated experience using data to drive root cause elimination and process improvement.
+ Self-starter who enjoys working with data and spotting trends.
Work Environment
The work schedule will transition to 100% onsite this summer (2025). This position offers an opportunity to gain experience with a global leader in logistics, with untapped opportunities for career growth
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $22.00 - $23.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
- Medical, dental & vision - Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital - 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available - Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) - Short and long-term disability - Health Spending Account (HSA) - Transportation benefits - Employee Assistance Program - Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Tempe,AZ.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jun 18, 2025.
About Aston Carter:
Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® double diamond winner for both client and talent service.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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Job Tags
Temporary work, Summer work,