Fort Smith, AR - Transportation Supervisor

Bachoco Group is a leading multi-business and multiprotein producer, and one of the top ten largest globally, with over 40,000 employees. We offer a wide portfolio of products, including chicken, eggs, pork, beef, pet food, and more. Through Bachoco USA, we deliver high-quality chicken products to the U.S. market, serving retail, food service, and national accounts through our fully integrated operations, which include farms, hatcheries, feed mills, and processing plants.

Join us and be part of our success!

 

Summary:  Assists with all transportation-related operations. Responsible for completing daily driver and dispatch schedules, maintaining DOT compliance paperwork and filing systems, conducting regular safety meetings, and managing driver timesheets and payroll. Coordinates fleet equipment repairs and maintenance with the shop. Serves as a strong backup for outside dispatch operations and related activities. Works directly with contract carriers and brokers to support transportation needs.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Responsible for properly training all personnel in transportation operations while ensuring the highest level of safety.
• Responsible for maintaining direct contact with all shipping facilities.
• Provides coverage for outside dispatch as needed, including FTL/OTR and LTL freight operations.
• Works closely with scheduling, sales, and customers by providing ETAs and freight quotes.
• Responsible for overseeing the maintenance, condition, and cleanliness of all transportation department equipment.
• Must have the physical ability to perform the essential functions of the position.
• Must carry and maintain a company-provided cell phone and be available for on-call questions and operational matters during nights and weekends.
• Responsible for completing and submitting payroll, with management approval, in a timely manner.
• Responsible for completing and maintaining all reports essential to departmental functions, including DOT documentation, incident reports, and weekly, monthly, and daily reports.
• Responsible for ensuring all personnel follow applicable biosecurity guidelines and procedures.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.
• This is a safety sensitive position.

 

Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises 25-30 employees in the Transportation Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

 

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.  A degree from a 4-year institution is preferred.

 

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.  Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

 

Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.  Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

 

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

 

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Contact Management systems; Internet software; Payroll systems; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.

 

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Must have a valid driver’s license.                                                   

 

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds.

 

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

 

Bachoco USA reserves the right to conduct background screenings for positions deemed necessary and in accordance with applicable laws.

 

An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.

 

*Unsolicited Assistance: Please note that Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco USA.