What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dispatcher - DENVER position at Action Gypsum?
Job Description
Job Description
Description : Position Overview
The Dispatcher will be responsible for coordinating and managing delivery schedules. Using available resources, dispatchers evaluate the best and safest trucking routes to maximize our trucks. By maintaining a well-organized operation, dispatchers satisfy our customer’s needs by maintaining prompt delivery schedules, while managing delivery costs thru efficiency.
Essential Job Functions
- Have full knowledge of status of deliveries at all times by maintaining the GPS system in place
- Responding to and deal with customer communication by email, fax and / or telephone
- No false promises of deliveries
- Make sure all backorders are entered, filed and scheduled to be shipped
- Constant communication with the front counter, reps and customers is required of the dispatcher (i.e. letting the inside or outside reps know when items are backordered, calling before the load leaves when requested by the customer, calling with postponements due to weather etc.)
- Turn in complete paperwork for billing and receiving departments
- Provide information on equipment needed for jobsite delivery
- Establish effective working relationships with sales and key management to improve our overall delivery service
- Meet with the management team as needed to review opportunities for efficiency within the shipping and delivery process
- Schedule loads for all trucks and make sure each driver is dispatched with instructions and directions
- Make sure that all material that needs to be picked up at vendors is done timely
- Aid the Safety Director with maintaining the D.O.T. files (minimum time allotted for this)
- Work with warehouse manager scheduling vacation or other absences for drivers
- He, in conjunction with the Warehouse Manager, will work diligently to manage the regular work hours and keep the overtime hours to a minimum. This is a crucial aspect in the determination of bonuses
- Demonstrate a positive attitude to show customers their business is appreciated
Work Environment :
Sitting, standing and walking intermittently
Indoor office environment, temperature controlled
Ability to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk or hear and taste or smell
Occasionally lift or move up to 30 pounds
Use specific vision abilities, including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
Requirements : Requirements
NOTE : This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.