Logistics Coordinator

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Job Description:

Position Overview

The Coordinator, Logistics position performs moderately complex logistical coordination.  Depending upon the assigned business group, the coordination could be internal rail fleet management: tracking fleet movement and serving customers who are leasing rail cars.   Or external management of: shipping schedules, serving customers by arranging for carriers, rail cars, and/or barges in the shipment of commodity product.  This position collaborates and shares information internally to optimize efficiency and effectiveness, while delivering extraordinary service.

Key Responsibilities

Fleet Management focus:

• Monitor and track all aspects of lease deals from gathering details surrounding new deals, understanding current lease deals, and anticipating ending deals.  Coordinate the administrative activities involved in managing these three aspects.
• Coordinate and communicate rail equipment movements for new deals, off-lease, bad-orders, in/out of storage, and scrap.  Coordinate relevant internal parties and the customer on the equipment destination and route.  Interact with the various Class I railroads and Short lines and their proprietary systems to troubleshoot and rectify logistics issues and ensure timely and accurate arrival and departure.

Shipping and Scheduling focus:

• Coordinate a truck/rail/barge schedule that optimizes carrier selection, meets internal inventory, loading and shipping requirements, and fulfills customer orders.
• Using relationships with freight suppliers and an understanding of the current shipping market, competitive freight rates, utilization rates, and customer requirements, negotiate freight rates and routes that optimize the order fulfillment process.

Shared by both roles:

• Provide customer assistance in processing of orders/deals, convey pertinent information throughout the process, monitor shipments/fleet movement, and address customer inquiries as to status or issue resolution.
• Manage administrative processes surrounding logistics which could include managing system information and providing reports and data, resolving claims and issues, conveyance of price, bid or deal information, entry of contracts into system, information input for billing/invoicing, and ensuring proper logistics documentation is obtained/completed.

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Has developed specialized skills or is multi-skilled through job related training or considerable experience
• Completes work with limited degree of supervision
• Likely to act as an informal resource for colleagues with less experience
• Identifies key issues and patterns from partial/conflicting data
• Takes a broad perspective to problems and spots new, less obvious solutions

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required, Associate’s Degree preferred
• 3-5 years’ relevant experience required

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed. It does not include all responsibilities and skills required of the job and may be changed at any time. All responsibilities must be completed in compliance with all safety protocols, policies, procedures and consistent with the spirit and philosophy of The Andersons’ Statement of Principles.

Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed, but are not to be seen as a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Also, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer. The Andersons, Inc. is a Drug-Free Workplace. The Andersons, Inc. is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

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