Transportation Manager

Charlie’s Produce - Who We Are
Charlie's Produce is a privately owned wholesale produce company. We are the largest privately owned produce wholesaler on the West Coast, and we are growing. The secret to our success in this industry is PEOPLE! We strive to hire the best and we reward them with a working environment that fosters loyalty, stability, innovation, and growth.
Charlie’s was founded in quality, and we are proud that it is still our focus. With a team of dedicated people who are passionate about food, supply chain, and their community we are looking for like-minded individuals to help further our goal to enhance our communities through quality produce.
What we offer:

- An amazing company culture!
- Medical/Dental/Vision on the first of the month following hire.
- ESOP (Profit Sharing) and 401(k).
- Paid vacations, paid holidays.
- Coverage under State Sick Leave.
- 100% Prepaid College Tuition for employees and their dependents.
- Employee assistance program (EAP).

Additional Compensation Details:

- Potential 90-day performance-based raise
- Yearly review with possibility of increase based on performance and tenure

Requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (any combination of the following job duties:; All employees are responsible for food safety and are expected to notify the appropriate manager, supervisor, or key personnel if they witness any compromise to food safety or food quality; Determine adequate labor needs and staff as appropriate.; Effectively train personnel and establish performance goals for subordinates.; Maintain regular communications with sales, buying, and warehouse staff to insure operations are functioning satisfactorily.; Develop and review Division reports profit and loss statement to determine efficiency levels.; Initiate transportation capital expenditure requests as needed.; Conduct staff/employee meetings to monitor all aspects of transportation operations including ongoing safety objectives.; Responsible for the daily scheduling of transportation personnel to ensure proper staffing.; Monitor computerized routing of our truck fleet; Create route tracking and adjustments; Spreadsheet maintenance; Dispatching to route drivers as needed; Plan labor needs and future scheduling; New driver onboarding and training; DOT Policy implementation; Driver performance management; Schedule all drivers and manager re-schedules for sick/absent drivers; Audit Driver logs and review driver pre-check lists; Driver performance management; Coordinate back hauls and pick-ups; Coordinate maintenance of all equipment; Ensure drivers are informed of changes; Communicate and relay information to receiving and purchasing department regarding issues with vendors.; Manages Employee Performance Reviews, investigations, safety guidelines, workers compensation, employee relations and ADP time and attendance monitoring/ approvals.