What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Transportation position at Foster Caviness Company?
We are a different company. We work to live and promote a People First mentality through our values of Promoting Trust, being Purposefully Collaborative, being Positively Impactful and doing what we say through Progressive Action. We want to be a supply chain company that creates a legacy helping our people live their best lives and become the best versions of themselves. We champion the underdog, giving opportunities to those that embrace our culture and strive to help us on this journey to be better each day. We service our Military bases with fresh produce, we service our children with quality fruits and vegetables at their schools, and we provide food for a lot of the restaurants you may frequent. But we also believe in being more – being a supply chain solutions company, providing value-added services, and helping others find success through our partnership. We’re your neighbors – we live in the communities we serve and believe in giving back.
What We Offer:
We offer over 120 years of stability, community involvement and innovation. We offer the opportunity to collaborate with some great people, all doing what they can to make us a better company. So as a company, we work to offer a competitive wage and a competitive benefits package. Most of our benefits, including Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Supplemental Employee/Spouse/Child Life Insurance, 401k (with company matching funds) and Paid Time Off (PTO) program, are eligible for enrollment the first of the month following 30 days of employment!
We also offer another special benefit, but eligibility for it takes 1 year – because you must embrace our values and our focus. Our People Helping People benefit allows employees to schedule off 8 hours per year to volunteer for a specific charitable non-profit, and we pay you to do it! We believe in giving back to our communities, and this is just one way we show it!
Thinking about Leadership? We offer our LDP (Leadership Development Program) annually, open to ALL employees no matter their role in the company at no cost.
And our Families Eat First program provides for a full box of produce for each employee, every week. Food brings people together, so why not enjoy some excellent quality produce, free of charge? Just another benefit that makes us different.
Joining the Family:
If all these things sound like something you would like to be a part of, then we encourage you to continue reading to see if this role might be a fit for you. If so, utilize the process to apply and start your journey. And if not, we would encourage you to look at other opportunities we have open at jobs.fostercaviness.com. Best of luck and thank you for considering us!
Basic Job Concept: Positively impact people & process! In this role you will effect change, be yourself, and have a positive impact on our company our community and our future!
Who You Are: You are self-motivated. You think like an entrepreneur, constantly innovating and driving positive change, but more importantly you consistently deliver mind-boggling results! You love people, processes, and performance. You believe in the power of ‘team’ and are driven by a sincere desire to see others succeed. You are a change agent, live culture, and believe in community. You seek collaboration to find the best answers and are not afraid to take calculated risk. You are hardworking and always put your safety, and the safety of those around you FIRST!
What You’ll Do:
- Be an active member of an epically awesome team!
- Live out our culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration.
- Deliver on a variety of functional and strategic logistic initiatives.
- Drive change to streamline processes and find new ways/better ways to deliver excellence to our customer partners.
- Care so much for our people that you refuse to allow them to be unsafe.
- Work in a way that is collaborative, inclusive, and consistently cool.
- Help design and deploy innovative ways to develop drivers and transportation team members.
- Partner with people to identify new human needs and corresponding solutions.
- Personally own the responsibilities of ensuring people are paid correctly, enjoy the benefits we offer, and understand how they contribute.
- Build, lead, and develop a winning team.
- Innovate and create new methods to increase asset utilization.
- Identify and deliver market disrupting service solutions!
What You’ll Bring to the Table:
- A sincere passion for positively impacting people and making work, fun (this is first on the list for a reason!)
- Insightful, meaningful, relevant relationship skills.
- A proven track record of being a bad*@# transportation expert.
- A hunger to learn and grow.
- Experience leading transportation teams in multiple locations and multiple areas.
- Creative new ideas on how we can better serve our community of employees and customers.
- An extreme sense of ownership (meaning you treat every person, every function, everything as if you were the owner of this company).
- Commitment, loyalty, integrity, compassion, empathy and patience.
- A proven skill set and knowledge base of people leadership, transportation related laws/regulations.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Create and implement new ways to make Foster-Caviness a fun and exciting place to work!
- Facilitate all facets of team building and people leadership.
- Manage a transportation department of Delivery Drivers and Leadership, across multiple sites/areas.
- Work on strategic initiatives to create an efficient, productive and effective transportation and delivery program.
- Understanding and working knowledge of DOT regulations, HOS rules, routing/safety programs (Omnitracs, Samsara, etc)
- Knowledge with computer systems such as Produce Pro, AS 400, etc.
- Ensure all associates are engaged, empowered, and accountable to win.
- Find solutions in challenging situations, create new opportunities for growth and expansion.
- Ensure processes are relevant and consistently executed with greatness and accuracy i.e. routing, dispatch, check-in, fleet management, policies and procedure adherence.
- Manage and modernize process to ensure exceptional service levels.
