About this role
The Transportation Analyst III supports transportation operations for the Precast facility, ensuring safe, compliant, cost-effective, and on-time delivery to customers and project sites.
This role serves as a liaison between internal drivers and external carriers, negotiates freight rates, monitors market conditions, coordinates delivery priorities, and maintains fleet compliance with preventative maintenance requirements.
Responsibilities
- Support transportation schedules for Precast deliveries based on production schedules, project requirements, customer commitments, and resource availability.
- Analyze freight rates, carrier performance, and service metrics to identify opportunities that support cost control, delivery reliability, and customer service.
- Monitor freight market trends, carrier capacity, fuel costs, lead times, and lane availability; analyze and communicate impacts to support business decision-making.
- Coordinate with Project Managers, Production Managers, QC Managers, Billing, customers, and leadership to confirm delivery requirements, resolve schedule conflicts, and support accurate documentation and invoicing.
- Prepare shipment documentation, including bills of lading, delivery tickets, freight invoices, purchase requisitions, and supporting records.
- Collaborate with Quality and production teams to align delivery plans with product readiness, quality requirements, load securement, and customer specifications.
- Coordinate and monitor vehicle maintenance and compliance activities, ensuring accurate documentation and timely follow-up on outstanding requirements.
- Collect, analyze, and report transportation performance data, including on-time delivery, carrier performance, freight spend, equipment utilization, safety compliance, and customer service issues.
- Support continuous improvement in route planning, load optimization, delivery communication, freight cost reduction, and driver productivity.
- Maintain transportation records and ensure compliance with company policies, customer requirements, DOT/FMCSA requirements, and applicable regulations.
- All other duties as assigned.
Experience, Education, & License Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Minimum of 5+ years of relevant transportation, logistics, dispatch, fleet, or freight management experience required.
- Experience with precast concrete, construction materials, heavy haul, flatbed, or oversized load transportation preferred.
Skills & Abilities
- Knowledge of transportation planning, freight negotiation, carrier management, dispatch, fleet maintenance, and delivery scheduling.
- Ability to manage competing project, production, customer, carrier, and driver priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Strong written, verbal, and cross-functional communication skills with customers, drivers, carriers, project managers, production, QC, billing, and leadership.
- Proficiency with transportation management systems, ERP platforms, dispatch tools, and shipment documentation workflows.
- Intermediate Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook for reporting, scheduling, and communication.
- Customer-focused approach with the ability to resolve delivery issues and maintain positive relationships with customers, drivers, carriers, and internal teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills for transportation delays, equipment issues, site constraints, and changing delivery priorities.
- Continuous improvement mindset focused on route optimization, load planning, fleet utilization, safety, and cost reduction.
- Ability to understand Precast project scope, delivery constraints, site access requirements, product readiness, and customer shipping needs.
- Knowledge of driver qualification, DOT/FMCSA compliance, vehicle maintenance requirements, and transportation safety practices preferred.
Competencies
- Safety
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Customer focus
- Integrity and trust
- Continuous improvement
- Adaptability
- Accountability
- Attention to detail
- Critical thinking