Material Liaison

Are you looking to join a dynamic team that provides its people with the tools to be successfull and opportunities to grow?
Universal Logistics is a leading provider of customized transportation and logistics solutions, offering a comprehensive suite of services including transportation, value-added, intermodal, and specialized services utilized throughout entire supply chains. 
Universal has immediate career opportunities in your area. Apply today to become part of the Universal team! 

If you are looking to enhance, change, or even start your career in the logistics and supply chain field, we have the position for you! Material Liaison’s play a pivotal role in the overall success of our operations in being the face of the company to our various customers.

Westport Axle, a subsidiary of Universal Logistics, is a leading single-source logistics provider that offers a broad scope of services throughout the entire supply chain. Westport’s experienced management team, with its state-of-the-art technology, provides customized logistics solutions to its customers resulting in proven efficiencies and savings.

Material Liaison Job Duties

· Maintain thorough knowledge of own job site location, as well as an understanding of how that impacts the other entities of contact.

· Monitor, help coordinate, and communicate schedules, shipments, inventory, and late deliveries or stagnate trailers with material.

· Collaborate and communicate successfully with DTNA outside of facility floor to include team leads, facility supervisors and managers of respected location.

· Collaborate and communicate with local Universal WH team and manager on loads leaving or delays that impact businesses.

· Work with other staff members to develop a greater understanding of the business and any issues that arise. Schedule daily meetings (5-10 mins), to understand pulse of business. What information or KPI’s need to be discussed or implemented for daily review. (Aging Report)

· Proactively collect, analyze, and utilize data and feedback to identify opportunities to improve the relationship between Liaison, Universal, Ryder and DTNA.

· Compile reports about particular incidents, events, or updates about an important issue for the business

· Proactively solve conflicts and address issues that could occur between all partners to ensure continuity.

· Promptly respond to incidents, request, and questions or follow up

· Perform other duties and assignments as requested by management.

· Understand and learn the WMS system, how to extract information, how to report system issues, help train DTNA staff on user functions.

· Send out end of shift report detailing the day’s events and watch outs for the following business day.

· Collaborate with local facilities on shipments, completed paperwork, dispatch and follow up/Close the loop.

· Help monitor and facilitate returnable levels to ensure production is not affected.