- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
Work setting
- Industrial facility or establishment
- Transportation
- Warehouse
Tasks
- Co-ordinate activities with warehouse and production units
- Project management
- Advise vehicle operators of traffic and other problems
- Dispatch personnel according to schedules and work orders
- Dispatch personnel as required by emergency situations
- Follow-up on issues with work orders
- Keep track of shipments
- Knowledge of cross border dispatching regulations and practices
- Knowledge of highway trucking and associated rules and regulations
- Operate radio equipment
- Process and transmit information and instructions to co-ordinate the activities of vehicle operators and crews using dispatching equipment
- Respond to urgent calls from individual who find themselves in life threatening situation and who require assistance
- Schedule assignments and co-ordinate activities of vehicle operators, crews and equipment
Computer and technology knowledge
- Dispatch management service software
- Monitoring and tracking software
- Electronic mail
Type of experience
- Load planning
Service experience
- Trucking
Customs broker specialization
- Customs legislation
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Repetitive tasks
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Accurate
- Values and ethics
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Analytical
- Proactive
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
Financial benefits
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance