U.S. Lumber, an SBP brand is currently hiring for a Transportation Supervisor for our Altoona, PA branch, operating out of Claysburg, PA. In this role you will be responsible for overseeing a professional driving team moving and delivering building materials products to our customer base across PA, MD, and WV. Expect this role to work cooperatively with other branch leaders to meet the site’s business goals, and to provide hands-on leadership to ensure efficient, accurate, and high-end quality service for both our internal and external customers.
Responsibilities & Essential Functions:
- Provide leadership to commercial drivers to develop and maintain a culture focused on customer service, and reliable and predictable performance, and accurate paperwork and documentation.
- Monitor driver performance to observe and coach demeanor, technical accuracy, safety, and conformity to company policies.
- Dispositions daily delivery issues through coordination with sales and operations.
- Schedule and execute an effective preventive maintenance plan to maximize up-time of our transportation fleet.
- Provide guidance and direction to dispatch resources effectively, including optimizing backhaul opportunities.
- Ensure DOT compliance and training, such as DOT driver qualification files, inspections, random drug screening administration, and required safety training.
- Investigates and reports accidents and incidents; determines and executes corrective and preventive actions.
- Maintain equipment cleanliness and repair expected of a professional organization.
- Hold a driver’s communication and feedback meeting at minimum once a quarter.
- Reviews invoices, work orders, and finance reports to properly manager transportation related expenses.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
KEY CHARACTERISTICS FOR SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE:
- Be personable, articulate, and knowledgeable with the ability to work well with other employees and management.
•Ability to learn skills quickly with a mature and service-oriented attitude.
•Must be process-oriented and able to take direction with the ability act with a systematic approach to analyzing situations. Acts with a good mindset to generate business solutions to problems.
•Must work with strong attention to detail and high motivation toward completing task completely, accurately and timely.
•Must be adaptable and flexible in order to change or adapt to changing work practices, priorities, procedures or conditions.
•Must have the ability to manage multiple tasks.
•Ability to meet the required schedule for work
PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Bending, stooping, reaching, twisting, lifting, pushing, pulling and moving items.
- Requires the ability to frequently lift more than 50 lbs.
- Requires moving around the loading yard to assist drivers with securing or unsecuring their loads, and/or perform inspections and routine maintenance
- Gripping used to operate machinery or hand tools
- Working on uneven working surfaces, including working in variable weather conditions and temperatures
- Sharp and/or rough edges will typically be encountered
Required credentials:
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- 2 years’ related experience in distribution or building materials environment.
- 2 years’ related experience in shipping, coordinating regional or local deliveries.
- 2 years of leadership experience.
- High School diploma.
- Must have basic math and analytical skills, and familiarity with Microsoft suite.
- Must pass the required pre-employment drug test and background check.
- Flexible with scheduling.
- Successfully complete any required training or orientation programs.
- Experience with Agility preferred.
- CDL License helpful but not required.
Specialty Building Products is the leading distributor of specialty building products in North America. SBP operates under the brands U.S. LUMBER, Alexandria Moulding, REEB Millwork, DW Distribution, Millwork Sales and Amerhart. We serve 45 states in the U.S. and 8 provinces in Canada from over 40 locations. Here at SBP we are a people first organization, our team is built upon strong culture and standards for success. We value your perspective and want to learn more about you with a commitment to laying the foundation for you to build a successful career with us. Join us and EVOLVE your future at Specialty Building Products!
Being a part of SBP you will be eligible for many benefits. Full-Time benefits would include:
- Medical, Dental, Vision given on the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
- Company-Paid Life Insurance & Disability
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Company-Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays & Floating Holidays
- PLUS, ADDITIONAL PERKS!
Serving our communities: We are also committed to our core value of “using our influence to have a uniquely positive impact” on the people that we touch. Through our initiatives we encourage and incentivize our employees to aid fellow employees in need and to better serve our communities and the people we directly influence.
We are proud to have the best team in our industry. We have experienced a tremendous amount of growth as a company. This growth has served not only our customer base but has also provided significant opportunities for advancement amongst our employees.
D.W. Distribution/Specialty Building Products is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy of Specialty Building Products not to discriminate in hiring and employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, military status, genetic information, or other protected class status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
