Transportation Planner

Multiquip, a leading manufacturer and service provider to equipment professionals in diverse industries, offers a unique work environment. Our construction products are used on projects ranging from site preparation, highway and paving to concrete and masonry construction. Our generators power construction sites, the entertainment industry, special events, and critical power for emergency response teams. We are committed to fostering a dynamic work environment that encourages collaboration and provides opportunities for career growth and professional development.

General Summary:

As a Transportation Planner at Multiquip Inc., you will play a key role in ensuring the efficient and accurate movement of freight across our network. Leveraging a Transportation Management System (TMS), you'll manage the full transportation process—from creating and consolidating orders to optimizing carrier selection, generating shipping documents, and coordinating pickups and deliveries. Acting as the central communication hub between carriers, sales, production, and warehouse teams, you'll proactively resolve issues such as delays or billing discrepancies to keep operations running smoothly and deliver exceptional service.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• TMS Administration: Utilize a Transportation Management System to create and consolidate shipment orders, update shipment records and financials, selecting best value carriers, and generate essential documents like Bills of Lading (BOL) and shipping labels.
• Collaboration: Acting as the central communication hub to ensure seamless coordination, communication, and execution of the entire transportation requirements between LTL carriers, truckload brokers, Sales, purchasing, production, and warehouses teams.
• Logistics Coordination: Manage carrier coordination and bookings, schedule delivery appointments, and coordinate pickups between carriers/brokers, vendors, and warehouses.
• Exception Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for resolving pickup delays, urgent shipping requests, in-transit issues, and billing disputes.
• Exception escalation: Primary contact for freight exceptions (urgent shipment request, pick up, and in transit – exceptions) within the areas assigned.

Core Requirements:

• Proven experience with freight brokerage managed transportation programs or systems.
• Proficiency in TMS order consolidation, and carrier assignment
• Assist and back-up for other Transportation Planners
• Conduct business within Multiquip JSox policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Performs other duties that the Transportation Manager may assign.

Education and Work Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain/Logistics/Operation and/or three years of experience in freight brokerage managed transportation.
• Knowledge of SAP systems is a plus.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch, and talk or hear.
The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds with or without assistance.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Pay wage: $27.00-$34.00/hr
• 11 paid Holidays 
• Generous Paid Time Off - Accrues up to 4 weeks per year 
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Excellent Benefits Package for Full Time Employee that starts the 1st  of the month after 30 days of hire date including:
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 a year
• Employee Referral Program
• Employee Assistance Program

Multiquip provides competitive pay and benefits and supports our employees through our values of safety, integrity and respect.
Employment is subject to pre-employment physical, drug-screening and background investigation. E-Verify ) is used to verify a candidates' legal right to work in the U.S.
Multiquip Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will received consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other protected class.

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