Transportation Officer/ Inhouse Transportation Officer

Job Description

Title: Transportation Officer/ Inhouse Transportation Officer

Company Name: Career Overseas Consultants Limited

Vacancy: 5

Age: Na

Job Location: Saudi Arabia

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 4 years

• At least 4 years

• MUST have at least 4 years of progressive experience in logistics, fleet management or transportation.
• Prior experience in Manufacturing and Logistics.Good knowledge of fleet management& transportation procedures.
• Requirements include a working knowledge of machinery and operators management.
• Excellent analytical skills.Excellent English language (speaking, reading and writing).
• Excellent interpersonal & relationship management skills.Reporting & Presentation skills.
• Good negotiating and influencing skills.
• Excellent IT skills to include wide experience ERP MS office suits (i.e. Word, Advance Excel including pivot tables, logic functions and charts and PowerPoint).
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Good negotiation skills.

• Responsible for managing utilization and mobilization of in-house fleet &equipment’s serving the needs of internal departments (i.e. production, warehouses, administration).
• Formulate fleet requirements planning through close coordination with internal departments and assure fleet requirements are justified and availed to maintain smooth operations at all times.
• Scheduling fleet operations according to coordination with requesting departments.
• Maintain proper documentation on the requested fleet as well as workshop fleet reporting.
• Assure fuel consumption is well controlled and measured by job/ by fleet/ by end user/ by operator, while directing the operator on the optimal route to follow to optimize fuel cost.
• Defining the need for fleet outsourcing in certain circumstances after close coordination with internal departments and formulating the business justification to the line-manager.
• Call the required outsourced machinery & equipment’s upon line manager approvals and directions as well as to control the operation and cost for the outsourced machinery & equipment’s.
• Responsible for capturing and reporting transportation shunting and linked to costing per job.
• Manage in-house fleet operators including working hours & overtime if needed assuring optimum use of the equipment’s, following workshop and engineering operating manual, safety and high level of service & efficiency to internal departments.
• Maintain close follow up with fleet workshop on the preventive maintenance as per operating manual and ad-hoc maintenance and ensure fleet operation effectively.
• Responsible for deploying the operators effectively to in-house fleet to maintain smooth and operational efficiency.
• Reporting any risk associated with the fleet operation, hazard, safety, cost overruns or any abnormality in regard to operations.
• Following up on the in-bound transportation making sure that the cargos arrived OTIF.
• Responsible to deal with rented trucks operators and report any issues, losses and claims with the transporters.
• Coordinate, scheduling and planning the arrival of the in-bound transportation while maintaining operational efficiency, avoiding any delays to the operations.
• Monitor and track the inbound and outbound transportation trucks and report the status at all times.
• Assure planning and coordination of the outbound transportation trucks in line with the factory, warehousing and sales procedures, requirements.
• Review the transportation rates on the market on a daily basis and ensure transportation cost optimization at all times.
• Negotiating the transportation rates with the transporters and continuously working on achieving cost optimization and operational efficiency.
• Responsible for achieving KPI’s and operational targets as well as manifest & transportation invoices documentation.
• Daily reporting on all in-house fleet utilization, operating log &measures and performance.