Full-Time
Operations Manager
Deadline 3/27/27
Dayton Freight Lines
Less-than-truckload freight carrier
No salary listed
Louisville, KY, USA
In Person
Category
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Requirements
- Knowledge of the less-than-truckload transportation industry.
- Experience managing drivers and dockworkers.
- Knowledge of the geographical area surrounding the service center.
- Ability to perform administrative and operational duties in an office and dock environment, including standing and walking for extended periods, pushing or pulling equipment, operating material-handling equipment, and occasionally assisting with physical dock tasks such as handling freight and related materials.
Responsibilities
- Develop methods and procedures for the most efficient and economical routing and movement of customers' freight in an error-free manner and within established service center budget guidelines.
- Utilize the T.E.A.M. System for pickup-and-delivery and dock operations, as well as the trailer utilization report, to maximize company assets, equipment, and personnel capabilities.
- Prepare and compile daily, weekly, and monthly production and service records and measure conformance to stated service center objectives.
- Observe, inspect, and measure service center personnel proficiencies to determine changes in work practices or procedures needed to improve overall service center operations.
- Review logs and reports and confer with shift supervisory personnel to determine scheduling, production, and administrative support requirements.
- Maintain internal and external customer relations in accordance with company policies.
- Assist in training, developing, and evaluating supervisory and production personnel performance and recommend or initiate personnel-record documentation.
- Recruit prospective subordinate employees, including screening, qualifying, and interviewing candidates in conjunction with the Service Center Manager.
- Inspect service center facilities for compliance with prescribed safety and cleanliness standards.
- Inspect service center security, including locking bay doors and tractors, properly storing keys, and securing freight in appointment trailers.
- Manage routine maintenance and repairs and initiate requisitions for corrective actions through the Service Center Manager.
- Work closely with the Line Coordinator to plan and implement line-haul schedules and achieve on-time service performance requirements.
- Confer with line-haul, sales, maintenance, and claims departments to coordinate service center activities.
- Issue directives to subordinates to coordinate the movement of expedited, late, or special-circumstance freight.
- Assist in investigating job-related accidents and injuries, ensure timely and accurate report preparation, and initiate corresponding corrective actions with the Director of Safety.
- Apply company safety practices, including Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, Interstate Commerce Commission, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules and regulations, and ensure worker compliance.
- Participate in the Controlled Substance Testing Program for pre-employment, random, reasonable-cause, and post-accident testing under Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.
- Assist in preparing and conducting regular service center meetings to communicate service center performance, company trends, sales and marketing plans, and individual accomplishments and performance.
- Coordinate and facilitate company- and service-center-sponsored Total Quality Management Continuous Improvement Process activities.
- Handle special assignments in a timely and effective manner as directed.
Dayton Freight Lines is a regional less-than-truckload freight transportation company. The company moves palletized and commercial freight through service centers, linehaul networks, pickup and delivery operations, and logistics support. It serves shippers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, carriers, and supply-chain teams. Its operating model centers on a hub-and-spoke terminal network supported by drivers, dock teams, dispatch, fleet maintenance, sales, and customer service. Teams work across driving, dock operations, dispatch, fleet maintenance, logistics, sales, technology, and customer support. Teams support coordinated daily delivery.
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