What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Specialist position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
**This role will require you to be located in Arizona**
Amazon’s Linehaul team is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Transportation Specialist to assist in the resolution of stakeholder issues of daily freight movements flowing into and out of our North American fulfillment centers and our associated fulfillment network. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team, and to have a positive impact on Amazon, our transportation partners and ultimately our customers. When network disruptions happen, you’ll be at the forefront of helping the network/transportation partners clear those issues and ensure our customers get shipments on time.
An ideal candidate has a background in customer service/call center, transportation, and/or supply chain environments. Additionally, a passion for quickly providing solutions and resolution to challenges by using strong communication, problem solving and organizational skills is a must. Successful candidates will enjoy working in a fast-pace, high-volume environment with a lot of growth opportunity. They will thrive on accountability to themselves, team, carriers/drivers and work schedules!
Key job responsibilities
• Deliver outstanding carrier and driver experience/solutions, in a contact center environment, through researching, problem-solving, setting appropriate expectations and working within the Amazon Transportation network to get trailers/trucks back on track when disruptions occur
• Work in fast-paced environment, and adhere to schedules: start/stop, and breaks/lunches
• Support workload surges and/or weather-related operations as needed to include working significant overtime during designated high-volume peaks
• Use internal systems to gather data from multiple sources to support reporting on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis (AAP, Reach, Decisiv)
• Provide support to field teams and partners by creating repair requests, monitoring repair execution, ensuring on-time preventive maintenance, and maintaining unit history (e.g., for washes, warranties, registrations)
• Help write standard work for both the internal team as well as field teams
• Work with cross-functional teams. Use analytical skills to drive data-driven decision, and effectively communicate insights to others across Transportation Operations Management (TOM), Amazon Freight Partners (AFP), and Fleet.
• Provide support to field teams in driver assignment, load acceptance and driver/equipment availability
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1 years of working with computers and Microsoft Office (including Outlook, Word, and Excel) experience
- High school or equivalent diploma
- Work 40 hours/week, and overtime as required
- Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays
- Are 18 years of age or older
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 1 year call center experience, ideally in a logistics or claims environment
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