What are the responsibilities and job description for the Logistic Planner position at The Wenger Group?
Who Are We
We're a leading Northeast family-owned food, agricultural products, and agricultural services organization headquartered in Pennsylvania. We provide animal nutrition and feeds; specialty protein production, processing, and marketing; on-farm protein production services; and grain, fertilizer, and ingredient procurement.
We're a stable company with strong core values, great benefits, competitive wage structure, and a safe and healthy work environment. With over 850 team members, we're a growing company in an essential sector – agriculture!
Learn more here: https://www.thewengergroup.com
What Your Day Looks Like
Logistics Planner is responsible for coordinating resources necessary to ensure safe, timely, and efficient delivery of bulk animal feed, agricultural commodities, and related products. Core responsibilities involve working with customers, customer service, manufacturing, transportation, and garage operations to plan and execute trips on a daily basis in a 24/7 dispatch operation.
In addition to our more traditional benefits, we also offer great perks and numerous resources for professional development and team building:
The Wenger Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type as protected by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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We're a leading Northeast family-owned food, agricultural products, and agricultural services organization headquartered in Pennsylvania. We provide animal nutrition and feeds; specialty protein production, processing, and marketing; on-farm protein production services; and grain, fertilizer, and ingredient procurement.
We're a stable company with strong core values, great benefits, competitive wage structure, and a safe and healthy work environment. With over 850 team members, we're a growing company in an essential sector – agriculture!
Learn more here: https://www.thewengergroup.com
What Your Day Looks Like
Logistics Planner is responsible for coordinating resources necessary to ensure safe, timely, and efficient delivery of bulk animal feed, agricultural commodities, and related products. Core responsibilities involve working with customers, customer service, manufacturing, transportation, and garage operations to plan and execute trips on a daily basis in a 24/7 dispatch operation.
- Deploy WFM Transport resources to ensure customer expectations are met or exceeded.
- Establish and maintain good relationships with internal and external customers.
- Effectively communicate with customers, drivers, and mills in a timely & complete manner.
- Proactively contact customers with changing delivery information.
- Logistically plan intra-Mill transfers.
- Manage driver hours through current EOBR system.
- Closely coordinate with the Garage to help ensure proper truck maintenance scheduling.
- Coordinate driver availability with Transportation Supervisors.
- Follow all flushing and sequencing procedures for loading, unloading, and transferring feed.
- Properly maintain load out logs and other records as necessary for all loads hauled.
- Communicate with drivers as to which loads should be loaded.
- Schedule and assign loads for WFM Transport part time drivers and contract carriers.
- Work with team members from across the organization to resolve operational challenges.
- Use available technology (such as route planning software) to plan and execute trips on a daily basis.
- Experience working in a fast paced, 24/7 logistics operation.
- Experience with route planning software and EOBR systems preferred.
- Ability to tactically plan loads 6-10 hours or more in advance.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing business and environmental conditions.
- Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills.
- Ability to understand transportation cost structure.
- Excellent computer skills in Excel, MS Word, and Enterprise Resource Planning software.
- Flexibility with schedule to attend meetings during other shifts and work weekends.
In addition to our more traditional benefits, we also offer great perks and numerous resources for professional development and team building:
- Promotional opportunities
- Rewards and recognition programs
- Robust onboarding and training program
- Employee Discount Programs (Perks at Work)
- Employee referral program
- Encouraging and collaborative culture
- Paid Time Off, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Parental Leave, etc.
- Carebridge Employee Assistance Program
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Medical Flexible Spending Account
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance/Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Pet Insurance
The Wenger Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type as protected by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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