Position Summary:
The Transportation Coordinator plays a critical role in optimizing vehicle movements and transportation efficiency to support Rental, Service and other stakeholders. Designated resources are necessary to ensure critical vehicle movements are executed timely and accurately. The Transportation Coordinator helps minimize operational disruptions, optimizes resource allocation, and helps the organization achieve its operational goals. This supports customer experience by maximizing vehicle uptime and ensuring rental availability.
Major Responsibilities:
- Optimize requests from multiple departments, build trips and assign appropriate resources. Incorporate ad hoc hiking requests throughout the day.
- Oversight of process compliance. Ensuring use of all tools and technology required by hikers, rental staff, service staff and FleetNet users.
- Prioritize and resolve issues. Balance needs of parts pick-ups, sales & auction moves, service test drives, rental reservations, and hikes for vendors, customers.
- Collaborate with Branch Rental Managers (or designee) to assist with daily hiker activities, performance reviews, interviews, scheduling, and local equipment needs.
- Other projects and tasks as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred. If no degree, equivalent work experience is required.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in transportation related to rental counter activities, dispatch knowledge, scheduling vehicle service and customer service regardless of degree or not – preferred
- Ability to accurately read and interpret maps
- Daily task and goal oriented
- Ability to work with limited daily direction
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Ability to build relationships
- Strong decision-making capabilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Ability to collaborate
- Excellent organizational skills
- Strong customer service skills
- Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
- Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.
Physical Requirements:
- The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
- While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer
About Penske Truck Leasing/Transportation Solutions
Penske Truck Leasing/Transportation Solutions is a premier global transportation provider that delivers essential and innovative transportation, logistics and technology services to help companies and people move forward. With headquarters in Reading, PA, Penske and its associates are driven by a dedication to excellence and a commitment to customer success. Visit Go Penske to learn more.
Job Category: Other Corporate
Job Family: General Administration
Address: 100 Gundy Drive
Primary Location: US-PA-Reading
Employer: Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.
Req ID: 2601419
