Dispatching Specialist

Posted 5 Days Ago
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Yakima, WA
78K-80K Annually
Senior level
Logistics • 3PL: Third Party Logistics
The Role
As a Logistics Specialist, manage daily operations, coordinate shipments, optimize loads, and ensure compliance with regulations to enhance customer satisfaction.
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🚛 Join Our Transportation Team – Make an Impact Every Day!
Are you passionate about logistics, love solving complex challenges, and thrive in a fast-paced environment? We’re looking for a dynamic Logistics Specialist to be a key player in keeping our transportation operations running smoothly and efficiently. If you're organized, resourceful, and driven to make a difference, we want to hear from you!
Shift: Monday- Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

What You’ll Do:

As a Logistics Specialist, you’ll play a vital role in our daily operations—ensuring shipments arrive on time, loads are optimized, and our customers are happy. You’ll be the go-to person for planning, coordinating, and troubleshooting shipments across a variety of lanes.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Plan and coordinate daily shipments across multiple customers with precision.

  • Schedule pickups and deliveries based on transit times and customer requirements.

  • Collaborate with customers to quickly resolve issues and identify areas for improvement.

  • Create daily routing and dispatch schedules for drivers and equipment to ensure timely service.

  • Communicate accessorial charges to carriers and customers promptly.

  • Monitor carrier performance and suggest routing adjustments to boost efficiency.

  • Select and tender freight to carriers based on both cost and service needs.

  • Stay current with DOT regulations (interstate & intrastate), HOS rules, permits, weight limits, and more.

What You Bring:

  • 5+ years of experience in transportation, dispatching, or drayage coordination.

  • Deep knowledge of shipping, logistics, and import/export operations.

  • Skilled in transportation management systems (TMS) and Microsoft Office Suite.

  • Excellent communication skills – you’re clear, confident, and collaborative.

  • Top-notch organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities.

  • A problem-solver’s mindset and keen attention to detail.

  • Bachelor's degree in logistics, supply chain, business, or a related field.

    Pay Range:$78,000.00 - $80,000.00

    Why Lineage?
    This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

    Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation.  Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
    Benefits


    Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.

    Top Skills

    Microsoft Office Suite
    Transportation Management Systems (Tms)
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    The Company
    HQ: Novi, MI
    3,396 Employees
    On-site Workplace
    Year Founded: 2012

    What We Do

    Lineage Logistics is the industry’s leading innovator in temperature-controlled supply chain and logistics. Lineage’s expertise in end-to-end logistical solutions, its unrivaled real estate network, and its use of technology combine to promote food safety, increase distribution efficiency, advance sustainability, lessen environmental impact, and minimize supply chain waste. As a result, Lineage helps customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small family-owned businesses increase the efficiency and protect the integrity of their temperature-controlled supply chain. In recognition of the company’s leading innovations, Lineage was recognized as the No 1. Data Science company on Fast Company’s Annual list of The World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2019, in addition to ranking 23rd overall in an evaluation of thousands of companies worldwide.

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