General transportation manager
Optimum Truck Lines Ltd
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Bachelor’s degree
Experience
5 years or more
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work setting
- Trucking company
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Evaluate daily operations
- Monitor department’s performance
- Plan and organize daily operations
- Recruit staff
- Train staff
- Manage finances or budget
- Ensure transport compliance with regulations
- Oversee the scheduling and dispatching of vehicles and goods
- Oversee the setting of transportation service rates and monitor revenue
- Organize and maintain inventory
- MS Office
- Authorize and organize the establishment of major departments and associated senior staff positions
- Allocate material, human and financial resources to implement organizational policies and programs
- Establish objectives for the organization and formulate or approve policies and programs
- Establish financial and administrative controls; formulate and approve promotional campaigns; and approve overall human resources planning
- Select middle managers, directors or other executive staff; delegate the necessary authority to them and create optimum working conditions
- Co-ordinate the work of regions, divisions or departments
- Represent the organization, or delegate representatives to act on behalf of the organization, in negotiations or other official functions
Supervision
- 11-15 people
- Working groups
Experience and specialization
Computer and technology knowledge
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
- MS Outlook
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Willing to travel
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Fast-paced environment
- Large workload
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Ability to work independently
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Analytical
- Proactive