Transportation Specialist

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.

Job Summary

The Transport Coordinator III is responsible for allocating work to the transport team and contractor drivers, ensuring the safe and efficient transportation of materials between customer and company sites. The role involves maintaining transport systems, compiling reports, and managing day-to-day operations to meet company requirements. 

Key Responsibilities

• Transport Systems: Maintain transport systems, ensuring data accuracy in alignment with business needs.
• Job Allocation: Assign transportation tasks to team members and contractor drivers, ensuring compliance with business and legislative standards.
• Progress Monitoring: Track job progress, update systems upon completion, and record factors affecting job costs such as delays or futile loads.
• Communication: Liaise with contractor drivers, customers, and vendors to determine job status and address incomplete jobs.
• Complaint Resolution: Address and escalate complaints as per company guidelines.
• Inventory Coordination: Assist with managing and recording inventory and asset details, ensuring proper documentation for insurance, registrations, and inspections.
• Maintenance Coordination: Collaborate with the maintenance team to schedule repairs and provide roadside assistance for breakdowns.
• Scheduling: Prepare daily work schedules and missed load reports.
• Reporting: Ensure timely and accurate reporting to meet company and legal requirements.
• Safety and Compliance: Adhere to all safety, health, environment, community, and sustainability (SHECS) policies.
• Support Functions: Contribute to diversity, cost management, continuous improvement initiatives, and policy compliance.
• Rail Car Management: Maintain communication and documentation for rail cars when necessary.
• Yard Support: Provide assistance with procurement as needed. 

Qualifications

• Education: Associate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience: Minimum of two years in an industrial transport environment or equivalent.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Understanding of relevant transportation regulations.
• Preferred: Experience with ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal transport.

Skills

• Strong computing, customer service, and communication skills.
• Excellent time management, organizational abilities, and attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Proficient in data analysis, scheduling, and planning.

Competencies

• Safety Leadership: Ensure team compliance with safety standards.
• Accountability: Set and monitor performance targets, ensuring team quality and accuracy.
• Communication: Communicate effectively, produce accurate reports, and promote information sharing.
• Teamwork: Motivate, support inclusion, and handle difficult situations with tact.
• Innovation: Tackle challenges, make timely decisions, and support continuous improvement.
• Project Management: Align team tasks with business goals, manage resources, and develop contingency plans.
• Business Knowledge: Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant job duties, products, and market trends. 
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This position requires daily reporting to the yard.

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.

Sims 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 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. 

To achieve our purpose to create a world without waste to preserve our planet, we are guided by our Principles of Purpose: Be Safe + Well, Band Together, Be Accountable + Transparent, Consistently Innovate, Inspire with Purpose, Celebrate + Have Fun.