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Republic Services

Waste management and recycling services provider

Logistics Analyst

Logistics & TransportationUpdated on Nov 10
Full-timeEnglewood, CO, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing priorities.
  • Skillful use of Microsoft Office Suite or similar software.
  • Ability to understand and execute time-sensitive tasks.
  • Experience in a customer-facing position.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and oversee drivers, trucks, and containers to create capacity, maximize productivity, and ensure prompt, courteous, and efficient customer service.
  • Oversee safety, customer experience, and productivity.
  • Ensure compliance with all required safety policies and procedures.
  • Analyze daily route information and implement changes to improve route standardization, efficiency, and accuracy using the internal routing platform.
  • Use routing system visibility and flexibility to analyze and respond to same-day changes or next-day planning, improve on-route efficiencies, and identify route-design patterns and improvement areas.
  • Ensure routes are closed on time by verifying data accuracy and maintaining a durable close-route process.
  • Evaluate and resolve problems that arise while trucks and drivers are in transit.
  • Manage driver safety and the security of company assets, and provide direction to drivers.
  • Collect, interpret, and analyze logistics data, including inventory, asset reliability, and route data, to improve routing accuracy.
  • Communicate with drivers about route progress and ensure they have necessary information.
  • Evaluate and escalate driver performance issues or concerns for resolution.
  • Use route sequencing to drive efficiency.
  • Respond to missed pickups and service commitments by scheduling customers accordingly.
  • Evaluate and educate drivers regarding missed pickups and develop strategies to prevent future missed-pickup failures.
  • Create routes that maximize capacity and review per-driver daily load goals to maximize profitability.
  • Monitor daily routing activities and resolve issues to ensure on-time pickup and delivery; assess the need for swing routes and identify all swing opportunities.
  • Analyze trends in swing percentage to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Monitor and adjust current- and next-day plans as needed throughout the day.
  • Understand daily disposal plans and help identify optimal disposal sites for each load; hold drivers accountable for using assigned disposal sites.
  • Discuss disposal plans and recommendations with the Operations Manager and update plans when intercompany or third-party changes occur.
  • Determine whether service requests can be pulled forward to improve efficiency and customer experience.
  • Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
  • Interact courteously with customers as required.
  • Design routes to help drivers work safely, successfully, and efficiently and to address customer-service issues and compliance with hours-of-service and weight requirements.
  • Analyze and prioritize customer commitments to ensure customers are serviced and promises are kept.
  • Update call-center communications daily and continually assess and communicate to reduce missed pickups and improve communication between the division and customers.
  • Evaluate route issues that may cause delays and use available tools to communicate with affected customers.
  • Continually review routing media to process service exceptions, general messages, and extra-service information to meet customer needs.
  • Adhere to and execute universal service commitments to ensure high customer satisfaction.

Desired Qualifications

  • Two years of prior experience working in a dispatcher or similar leadership role.

About the Company

Republic Services

Waste management and recycling services provider

Republic Services provides environmental services focused on waste and recycling, including solid, special, and hazardous waste management, advanced recycling, field and industrial services, 24/7 emergency response, equipment rental, and cleaning. It leverages a nationwide network of recycling centers and a large workforce to collect, process, recycle, treat, and dispose of waste under a single-source solution, and it captures landfill gas to generate renewable energy. Unlike fragmented providers, it offers a broad, integrated suite of services through one partner and pursues sustainability initiatives like circular economy programs. Its goal is to help customers meet environmental goals and improve environmental and economic sustainability by reducing waste, boosting recycling, and generating renewable energy.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Phoenix, AZ
Founded
1998

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