Title:  Transportation Coordinator

Sims Metal (Sims) is a global leader in metal recycling. With facilities across the globe, Sims plays an intrinsic role in the circular economy by making resources available for future use. As a responsible corporate citizen, we continuously seek new ways to broaden our participation in the environmental sector, ensuring that our future is as bright, safe, and secure as at any time in our long history.

Sims is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value the diversity of all of our employees, and we are committed to creating a working environment that is built on a foundation of respect and inclusion where everyone can contribute, advance on merit, and realize their full potential.

Job Summary:

To allocate work to the transport team and contractor drivers to ensure the transportation of material to and from customer and Company sites is completed in a safe and efficient manner in line with company requirements. Duties may include telephone or computer to transmit assignments, compiling statistics and reports on work progress. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain transport systems to ensure accuracy and currency of data in line with business requirements.
• Allocate transport jobs to transport team members and contractor drivers in a timely manner, in accordance with business and legislative requirements
  • Ensure that information contained on transport job sheets are accurate and complete and includes specific vendor/customer information and/or requests.    
  • Assist with the allocation of jobs by sorting jobs according to type, locality etc. so that consideration is given to urgency, location and cost effectiveness of the transport job.  
• Monitor job progress and update systems upon job completion noting any factors that impacted on the cost of jobs such as detention, futile loads, business closed, etc
• Communicate with contractor drivers / customers / vendors to determine job status / and identify and investigate any incomplete jobs at close of business
• Ensure accurate records of completed jobs are recorded within relevant system to facilitate accurate and timely payment in line with company requirements
  • Ensure pricing data for invoicing is accurate and current. 
• Record, resolve and/or escalate complaints in a timely manner in accordance with company requirements
• Provide backup support to Dispatcher(s) which includes, but is not limited to:
  • Constant coordination of inventory for all assets.
  • Arrange coordination with TM or TS & Maintenance in getting equipment to service shops when repairs are needed on assets
  • In the case of breakdowns; assist, arrange and provide roadside assistance for our drivers (flat tire, tow trucks, etc.)
  • Creating the dispatch schedule around out of service equipment
  • Prepare daily work schedules, missed load reports and 30/60/90 Day inventories
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting in line with company and legislative requirements
• Demonstrate personal responsibility for all Safety, Health, Environment, Community, and Sustainability (SHECS) policies, procedures, and initiatives
• Support diversity and inclusion, positive employee relations, and teamwork
• Support measures designed to effectively manage costs and adherence to budgetary requirements
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and quality requirements
• Comply with all Company policies, procedures, and initiatives relevant to the job
• Support training and performance-management initiatives

Qualifications:

• Associate degree, advanced diploma or level 4 award, certificate or diploma or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Two years’ experience in an industrial transport environment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience;
• Knowledge of applicable regulations;
• Knowledge and understanding of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal, preferred;
• Knowledge and understanding and experience with scrap metal transport requirements, preferred

Skills:

• Good computing skills
• Excellent customer service and communication skills
• Good time management and organisational skills
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines
• Strong literacy and numerical skills
• High level scheduling & planning skills
• Attention to detail
• Data analysis/interpretation skills
• Maintain good interpersonal communications with internal and external customers

With a promote-from-within philosophy and a variety of programs available to support continuous learning, Sims offers the opportunity for a rewarding career. We are committed to the ecologically sound and sustainable use of resources and strive to operate in a manner that minimizes waste and protects the environment.

A career with Sims provides you with the opportunity to work with an organization whose goal is to be the world’s safest and most responsible recycling company. Our people achieve this by creating a zero-harm workplace, being exemplary members of the communities in which we operate, and being responsible stewards of the environment. We also offer competitive pay and a range of attractive benefits.

Find Out More…

Please visit www.simsltd.com for more information on Sims and its commitment to sustainability.

SIMS LIMITED IS PROUD TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. WE VALUE THE DIVERSITY OF ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND ARE COMMITTED TO CREATING AN INCLUSIVE WORKING ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERYONE CAN CONTRIBUTE, ADVANCE ON MERIT, AND REALIZE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. SIMS LIMITED IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. THE COMPANY DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE WITH REGARD TO RACE, SEX, RELIGION, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, CITIZENSHIP STATUS, DISABILITY, AGE, MARITAL OR FAMILIAL STATUS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, GENDER EXPRESSION, VETERAN STATUS, HOUSING STATUS, SOURCE OF INCOME, OR ANY OTHER STATUS PROTECTED BY FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL LAWS. THIS APPLIES TO ANY EMPLOYMENT DECISION, INCLUDING RECRUITING, HIRING, PLACEMENT, PROMOTION, TERMINATION, LAYOFF, RECALL, TRANSFER, LEAVES OF ABSENCE, COMPENSATION, AND TRAINING.  QUALIFIED APPLICANTS WITH A DISABILITY IN NEED OF A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION MAY REQUEST SUCH WITHOUT FEAR OF REPRISAL OR DISCRIMINATION.