Load Finder

Reports To: Senior Director – Fleet Management

Location: El Paso, TX

Status: Salaried; Non-Exempt

Work Schedule:

This position is full-time and onsite Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM with an hour break, but flexibility is available based on coverage.

Who We Are:

Redwood Logistics is your strategically integrated logistics provider that understands our customers’ unique needs. Throughout our 20-year history, we’ve grown and evolved our range of offerings to create a family of companies that can solve logistics and transportation challenges.

From our diversity of services, data-driven network solutions, and strategically integrated model, we have positioned ourselves as the dominant player in the mid-market space. We are a privately held company, managing significant transportation spend – we are big, but flexible with an entrepreneurial spirit.

For more than 20 years, Redwood Logistics has been helping move businesses forward by connecting our clients to winning strategies. As a next-generation leader in third-party logistics, we live at the intersection of logistics and technology. We focus brilliant minds, technology services, and performance excellence to modernize supply chains.

As an asset-based truckload company, Redwood Freight Exchange (F/X), a subsidiary of Redwood Logistics, provides critical capacity solution to a diverse cross section of customers in complex markets. As a customer, you can rest assured you’ll receive safe, reliable equipment – with a driver force focused on service excellence.

See for yourself why The Chicago Tribune has named Redwood Logistics a Top Workplace for several years running!

Purpose of Your Work:

As a Planning Operations Representative, you will support our Load Planning Team through many different responsibilities in assisting the efficient planning and dispatching of our fleets.

How You Make a Difference Everyday:

• Working closely with Fleet Managers, Customer Service Representatives, and Capacity Utilization Planners to effectively plan our trucks
• Building orders taken from customer in our dispatching system
• Communicating with customer from initial order take to final delivery
• Understanding market rates and assist in booking freight to meet capacity needs
• Assist in matching Customer and Ad Hoc loads to available capacity
• Working in alignment with Fleet Management to ensure all loads planned are in compliance with HOS regulations
• Maximizing drivers available HOS through efficient and timely planning
• Keeping proper balance of trucks to loads at terminals. No sitting capacity
• Ensure truck allocation for capacity needs per region

You’ve Got This!

• Clear and concise communication skills
• Attentiveness
• Knowledge in the transportation industry
• Time management skills
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Team-oriented

What We Offer:

• Paid time off, with extra floating holiday, time off to volunteer and rollover
• Paid parental leave policies
• Medical, dental, vision and 401k plans (with match)
• Culture of unlimited growth with new positions and departments created regularly to support our growing customer base
• Employee referral bonus program
• Flexible Spending Account, mass transit and dependent care plans available
• Health savings account, with a liberal annual company contribution for plan participants
• Short-term, long-term and life insurance policies subsidized by company
• Additional benefits including pet insurance, accident care, access to legal advice and more
• We have embarked in our DE&I journey, through the creation of Employee Resource Groups, which provides our employees the opportunity to participate, lead and/or create a community that they are passionate about, an ally to, or are a part of
• Annual fundraising and volunteer events to give back to communities

Redwood is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions at the Company are based on individual merit, qualifications, abilities, and the Company’s needs and resources. The Company does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotions, discipline, termination or any other aspect of employment on the basis of an individual’s actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, military service or status, genetic information, arrest and conviction record, credit history, or any other basis protected by applicable law.