Transportation Supervisor

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** Join us—Where your Career is a Force for Good!
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* Job Description:

** Joining The American Red Cross is like nothing else – it’s as much something you feel as something you do. You become a vital part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Joining a team of welcoming individuals who are exceptional, yet unassuming. Diverse, yet uncompromising in unity. You grow your career within a movement that matters, where success is measured in people helped, communities made whole, and individuals equipped to never stop changing lives and situations for the better.

When you choose to be a force for good, you’ll have mentors who empower your growth along a purposeful career path. You align your life’s work with an ongoing mission that’s bigger than all of us. As you care for others, you’re cared for with competitive compensation and benefits. You join a community that respects who you are away from work as much as what you do while at work.
*** WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
*** As a Service Delivery Transportation Supervisor, you will dispatch Red Cross Volunteers and/or employee drivers for blood pick-up and delivery to multiple regions. You will coordinate various transportation-related services including scheduling, routing, and ensuring the safe operation of all vehicles. You will perform complex administrative duties to ensure the efficient and cost-effective integrated logistics operation of transportation within the Division.

Provide support to the daily operations in the functional area of Transportation.
** WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE FOR GOOD
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* Key Responsibilities:

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* · Responsible for the supervision and coordination of scheduled deliveries and shuttles including empty box pickups utilizing vendors/volunteers and ARC paid couriers based on the most economical and cost-effective means. Coordinate pickups of collected products (time-sensitive and non-time sensitive) from mobiles, fixed sites and staging sites utilizing the most economical and cost-effective means.
· Responsible for volunteer/staff training and certification of competency. Help in onboarding of new volunteer/staff. Prepare work schedules and ensure appropriate coverage for assigned shift. Supervise all work processes and ensure work is performed accurately and efficiently.
· Make proactive adjustments to routes on an as needed basis due to inclement weather, major traffic issues, and special events, etc.
· Monitor volunteer engagement and work with Volunteer Services to increase volunteer recruitment. Participate in planning of local recognition events.
· Interact with customers to provide updates on deliveries. Monitor Connect and the Transportation Management System (TMS) to provide tracking of shipments to customers.
· Perform invoice monitoring, reconciliation, and timely payment of all bills. Maintain good communication and follow up with the Vendor.
· Work with service delivery management group and contracting as needed.
· Evaluate and ensure the proper vehicle needs are being met for the site and coordinate the request with the Fleet Coordinator. Work with Fleet for vehicle needs.
· On-call may be required.
** Standard Schedule**:
Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm, with flexibility to work off hours/weekends.
** Pay Information:** $73,000 minimum, but will be based on relevant experience.
* Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role.
**** WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:**
* · Minimum 3 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required.
· 1 year of lead or supervisory experience.
· A valid driver's license and clean DMV record is required.
· Must have basic computer, reading, and communication…