Commercial Dispatcher

Commercial Dispatcher

William B. Meyer, Inc. has been helping to redefine transportation and storage solutions for over 100 years. We maintain a local, customer-focused, and community-driven vision, which allows us to provide the best service and exceed expectations. Our team members provide peace of mind through the expert handling, moving, and storage of our customers' highly valued assets each and every time.

Summary

The Commercial Dispatcher will assign crews and equipment in accordance with job specific requirements.  You will be responsible for the timeliness of crew arrivals, overall job coordination with other dispatchers, and equipment control.

Note

All employees are expected to act in a safe manner at all times and ensure that those around them do not put themselves or others at risk.

Safety is everyone's responsibility. At ALL times working safely is a condition of employment.

Essential Functions of the Commercial Dispatcher

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. All essential functions are subject to reasonable accommodation. Employees needing or requesting accommodation should contact the Human Resources Director.

• Prepare and review daily work schedule at the beginning of the day before job is to be carried out, assigning crews as necessary, and ensuring they are notified in advance
• Load trucks in accordance with daily work orders
• Unload trucks each day, keeping track of equipment returned
• Assist with tracking and billing of any equipment left on job sites
• Assist in assigning and printing out all job-related paperwork
• Communicate next days schedule to employees and contractors
• Assist in pre-calling customers to confirm the next days schedule
• Closely monitor job schedules to avoid possible overlapping of crews, and unusual equipment requests
• Ensure that all items coming into storage are inventoried and in our online system
• Ensure all drivers are up to date with any and all paperwork
• Make sure all warehouse policies and procedures are followed by all workers in and around the docks

Minimum Qualifications of the Commercial Dispatcher

• General knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook
• Minimum of two years experience dispatching in transportation
• The ability to multi task in an organized manner is a must
• A high level of attention to detail is required
• High School graduate with a bachelors degree preferred
• Good communication skills with the ability to solve problems as they arise

Supervisory Responsibility of the Commercial Dispatcher

You will have direct supervisor responsibility of all crew members that fall under your dispatch.

Work Environment

The job consists of constant changes in a fast moving office environment.

Physical Demands

Ability to handle multiple tasks at any given time. Tasks include but are not limited to loading trucks with equipment, heavy phone usage, heavy email traffic and the ability to walk the warehouse to locate customer storage.

Expected Hours of Work

This is currently a daytime position starting between 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and finishing 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Hours may change during the year to accommodate our work volume. A typical day consists of 9 hours with weekend coverage every other week. Some after hour phone calls may be needed from time to time.

Travel

Travel is not required for this position.

Benefits of the Commercial Dispatcher include:

• Medical, dental, and Flexible Spending benefits
• Retirement and 401k
• Company paid time off

William B. Meyer, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and seeks to employ qualified persons regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran status, including individuals with disabilities who are able to perform the essential functions of a particular job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Living and practicing our company’s core values of Honesty, Integrity, Creativity, Dependability, and Stewardship in relationships with our associates and customers is the fundamental reason for our success over the last 100 years.

We participate in E-Verify.

Other Duties Statement

Please note this job description is not a comprehensive list of work, duties, and responsibilities of the position and may change at any time with or without notice.