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RJ Schinner Co., Inc.

Transportation Coordinator

RJ Schinner Co., Inc., Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States, 53051

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RJ Schinner Co., Inc.

Build your career with RJ Schinner, a growing, family‑owned wholesale redistributor with over 70 years of success.

We have 20 distribution centers throughout the US, 600+ employees, and provide disposable paper, cleaning, and food service packaging products to distributors in 48 states. Headquartered in Menomonee Falls, WI, RJ Schinner is a well‑established company started in 1951. RJ Schinner currently ranks as the 46th most successful private company on Deloitte’s 2024 Wisconsin 75 and has also been recognized through BizTimes’ Future 50 Program as one of the fastest growing privately‑owned companies in southeastern Wisconsin.

Transportation Coordinator Job Summary Full‑time | Monday‑Friday | 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

The Transportation Coordinator manages and optimizes daily delivery routes to ensure efficient, safe, and on‑time transportation. It involves coordinating with sales, operations, and the driving team, updating routing systems, analyzing performance, and preparing efficiency reports. The position also supports drivers, monitors fleet utilization, and schedules maintenance to improve overall logistics performance.

Responsibilities

Sequence stops in the most efficient way

Balance cube to ensure most deliveries go on our own trucks to minimize common carrier utilization

Provide guidance to sales, customer service and ops on how new customers will be delivered

Set route start times

Provide appointment times and receiving hours to ops and drivers

Provide guidance to drivers on most efficient and safest delivery routes

Route vendor pickups

Route transfers

Update routes on routing sheets including holiday schedules

Make geocoding updates in the system for routes

Create and separate routes as needed based on vendor/customer needs

Investigate and initialize optimal routing solutions

Taking field calls from Sales Representatives for potential new customers to plan out potential routes

Prepare reports to department heads: on‑time delivery %, driver efficiency performance, and underutilized routes for additional sales or vendor pickup opportunity

Monitor route efficiencies by tracking and communicating with drivers on extra stops, length of stops, and route issues

Field driver calls regarding customer, route, and truck issues

Report dwell times to CS and Sales to help customer performance with deliveries

Provide guidance to drivers on delivery or software needs (Geotab, POD, Samsara, Whip Around)

Monitor equipment utilization for trucks

Monitor, plan, and schedule Preventative Maintenance (PM) and defects marked within Whiparound

Partner with the Safety & Compliance department to communicate any training or corrective action opportunities

Other duties as assigned by management

Minimum Qualifications

High school diploma

Requires good oral and written communication skills

Attention to detail and accuracy

Moderate level of Excel, Word, Power Point, and Outlook

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Business

3 years of experience in truck routing, scheduling, and mapping in a redistribution environment

Basic comprehension of warehouse logistics

Experience with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system

Working Environment

Work is performed in a warehouse office environment

Noise level is moderately loud

Occasional travel to off‑site training and company meetings

Physical Demands The employee is frequently required to sit, talk and/or hear; occasionally required to stand, and/or walk. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds while moving files, small packages. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Manual dexterity for computer keyboard usage.

Location: 14700 Patrita Drive, Menomonee Falls, WI 53051 –

www.rjschinner.com

R.J. Schinner Co., Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire and promote for all positions without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, disability, or veteran status. All terms and conditions of employment are administered on the basis of equality.

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