Traffic Service Representative
Posted on: 20 Mar 2021
Memphis, TN
Job Description
Job Details
Division: Nucor Logistics Center, Inc.
Location: Memphis, TN, United States
Other Available Locations: N/A
Basic Job Functions:
The Logistics Center (NLC) located in Memphis, TN is currently seeking a Traffic Service Representative. This role is responsible for the coordination and direct dispatch of truck shipments for Nucor Logistics Center mills. This position has responsibility of communicating directly with the Nucor truck vendors to locate capacity for all outbound and inbound flatbed truck loads, including non-steel commodities. A successful candidate can move freight in an efficient, cost effective, and timely manner. The TSR must have working knowledge and be familiar with customer requirements, market freight trends, as well as understand supply and demand. He or she will be required to take the action needed to meet the demand while focusing on the utilization and maximization of trucks. The TSR works directly with the customer service representative to develop carrier relationships and patterns that meet Nucor customer requirements. He/she must monitor carrier performance and be responsible for noting all infractions. Additional duties include working with the Load Planner to connect freight, identifying potential service failures, and preforming daily and monthly analytics. This role is very demanding and requires an individual capable of working in a very fast pass environment for extended periods. The candidate must be willing to work scheduled and unscheduled overtime and assist in others areas of the Logistics Center if needed.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. 3-5 years of experience in truck dispatch
2. High School Diploma
Detailed Selection Criteria:
1. Excellent attendance and punctuality
2. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
3. Positive attitude/optimism/enthusiasm
4. Demonstrated experience working in a fast- paced, multi-tasking environment with attention to detail
5. Excellent phone etiquette and experience in customer service
6. Understanding of flatbed truck market, freight cost, and basic freight calculations
7. Self-motivated, goal oriented, organized, ability to meet deadlines
8. Experience working in a team environment
9. Able to take action in solving problems while exhibiting good judgment
Preferences:
1. Familiar with Carrier Point TMS, DAT, ROSS, SKYBLUE
2. Understanding of HOS driver rules, CSA/DOT guidelines and regulations
3. Bachelor's Degree in Business or Logistics
Nucor is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/Disabled/Vets and a drug free workplace
Nucor
Charlotte, NC
Nucor Corporation manufactures and sells steel and steel products in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Steel Mills, Steel Products, and Raw Materials. The Steel Mills segment produces hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized sheet steel products; plate steel products; wide-flange beams, beam blanks, and H-piling and sheet piling products; bar steel products, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing and merchant bars, and special bar quality products. It also engages in the steel trading and rebar distribution businesses.
This segment sells its products to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers in automotive, energy, agricultural, heavy equipment, and transportation sectors. The Steel Products segment offers hollow structural section steel tubing products, electrical conduits, steel joists and joist girders, steel decks, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel products, cold finished steel products, steel fasteners, metal building systems, steel grating and expanded metal products, and wire and wire mesh products to general contractors, fabricators, distributors, and manufacturers.
This segment also engages in the piling distribution business. The Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); processes ferrous and nonferrous metals; brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, DRI, and hot briquetted iron; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, as well as engages in the natural gas drilling operations. This segment sells its ferrous scrap to electric arc furnace steel mills and foundries for manufacturing process; and nonferrous scrap metal to aluminum can producers, secondary aluminum smelters, steel mills and other processors, and consumers of various nonferrous metals.
The company offers its products through its in-house sales forces; and internal distribution and trading companies. The company was founded in 1940 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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IndustryManufacturing
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No. of Employees26, 300
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