Logistic Planner

For nearly a century, The Jel Sert Company has focused on creating high-quality, high-value foods and beverages that help bring people together. Jel Sert is proud to have been awarded the Great Place to Work certification, as well as recognized as a Best Workplace to Work in Chicago and a Best Workplace in Manufacturing and Production. We are currently looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as a LOGISTICS PLANNER. If you are looking for a work environment that encourages personal growth, responsibility, and a shared vision for creating incredible products that help create lasting memories, then Jel Sert wants you!

The Logistics Planner is a highly visible transportation role that is responsible for overseeing and optimizing the planning for nationwide customers and ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction while working closely with other departments to facilitate customer satisfaction.

This position will require the employee to work overtime as needed. Overtime is scheduled based on individual job responsibilities and the department's needs.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Freight planning and routing of customer orders
• Dealing with logistical service issues through communication with carriers
• Working with various departments on specific customer requests
• Data Entry, i.e., Invoice entry, customer information, service failures, and new rates
• Notification and scheduling customer pick-up orders
• Working with carriers to develop more efficient means of transportation

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in the transportation field with a preference in planning.
• Understanding of transportation regulations and requirements, freight pricing and industry knowledge & terminology.
• Strong computer skills are required, specifically in Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel.
• Knowledge and experience in the following systems or similar systems: Lean Logistics, TMS, WMS, and/or ERP, such as QAD.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, critical thinking, and negotiation skills.
• Accuracy in daily work and other projects.
• Very detail-oriented with the ability to work with a high volume of documents in a fast-paced environment.
• Highly organized with exceptional time management skills.
• Ability to set priorities, achieve deadlines, and manage multiple tasks at the same time.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent listening skills with the ability to handle multiple requests while detailing document activity.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

BENEFITS & SALARY

Jel Sert Company is committed to pay transparency and will provide further compensation information during the interview process. The minimum compensation for the Logistics Planner is $21.25 per hour. Actual compensation will be determined upon an offer. Compensation is determined by a candidate's experience, education, skills, training, and internal equity within our organization. In addition to a competitive compensation package, regular full-time corporate employees of Jel Sert are eligible for our extensive benefits programs, which can be reviewed here.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Climbing: Ascending or descending stairs, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
• Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at the knee to come to a rest on the knee or knees.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm, as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, extensive reading, and visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operating machines (including inspection).
• The worker is required to have visual acuity to operate a vehicle.
• The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned, as well as to make general observations of facilities or structures.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Office and distribution environment.

FOOD SAFETY and QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES

Follow applicable procedures and work instructions to ensure compliance with SQF requirements.

Backup redundant

IMPACT ON JEL SERT SUCCESS

This job ensures timely deliveries to customers in the most cost-efficient method possible.