As a Transportation Management Coordinator, you will utilize your organizational skills to schedule and coordinate transportation for personnel and equipment, ensuring cargo and Soldiers make it to their required destinations. With more than 50,000 heavy trucks and buses in operation, it's up to the Transportation Management Coordinator to organize and oversee the scheduling of these vehicles, which include semi-tractor trailers, heavy troop transports, and passenger buses.
In this role, you are primarily responsible for convoys, bills of lading, scheduling, and securing transportation for personnel and equipment. Specific duties may include: advising constituents of shipment and travel entitlements; requesting and coordinating transport capability; marking, documenting, and inventorying freight, cargo, and material shipments; operating automated data terminal equipment; and arranging documentation and reports for follow-up, or responses to tracer actions.
Job Duties
• Perform system administrator duties such as installing software and uploading data to computer systems
• Prepare equipment, cargo, and personnel for travel to airports, seaports, and railways
• Request and coordinate transportation to meet a movement mission
Helpful Skills
• Interest in motor vehicles, aircraft, and ocean liner vessels
• Experience in coordinating transportation
• Interest in planning events and working with people
Through your training, you will develop the skills and experience to enjoy a civilian career with privately owned moving companies or freight operators.
Earn While You Learn
Instead of paying to learn these skills, get paid to train. In the Army National Guard, you will learn these valuable job skills while earning a regular paycheck and qualifying for tuition assistance.
Job training for a Transportation Management Coordinator consists of 10 weeks of Basic Training, where you'll learn basic Soldiering skills, and six weeks of Advanced Individual Training (AIT). Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in the field.

About the Company:
Army National Guard

The Army National Guard

With more than380 years of service, the Army National Guard is the largest reserve component,as well as the oldest branch of the U.S. military. In this branch of the ArmedServices, you will serve part-time in your own community, where you can becalled upon to respond to domestic emergencies and natural disasters. The ArmyNational Guard also can be called up to defend our nation overseas.

We provide ourmembers with college tuition assistance and offer attractive benefits on top ofpaid training in all of our career fields, which enhances your marketability inthe civilian workforce. The Army National Guard has more than 343,000 members andhas career opportunities in every State, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.Visit our website at nationalguard.com for more information.

Company Size:
10,000 employees or more

Industry:
Government and Military

Founded:
1636

Website:
https://www.nationalguard.com/