Transportation Fleet Planner I, Full Time + Benefits, Remote Position - $22 p/h

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Job Description:

Each year Scholastic Book Fairs, in partnership with schools across the country, hosts more than 100,000 book fair events that give more than 35 million students and their families access to thousands of affordable and educational products, helping foster a lifelong love of reading.

School Reading Events is currently in search of a full time REMOTE Fleet Planner to accurately complete assigned weekly fleet routing within compliance and KPI thresholds to create the highest efficiency transportation plans according to established deadlines while maintaining clear and concise communication with internal customers in Distribution, Operations, and Sales to ensure complete customer satisfaction and clarify expectations.

This full time position offers Medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, wellness programs and incentives, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, life insurance, short and long term disability, parental leave, 401k with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Tuition Assistance/Reimbursement, adoption assistance, 50% off discount on Scholastic merchandise, and very generous paid time off programs: vacation, personal, sick time, and holiday pay.

The Fleet Planner will be responsible for ensuring route compliance with DOT regulations for hours of service, organizing time to prioritize immediate routing needs, analyzing routing parameters and location-specific geography to recommend cost-saving enhancements, and working with Operations and Distribution leaders to forecast transportation labor and equipment needs.

1. Complete weekly preliminary and final routing of assigned branches by assigned deadlines according to established route compliance requirements.
2. Complete all requested route changes for assigned branches within established timelines according to established route compliance requirements.
3. Stay abreast of Scholastic’s network needs, limitations, and intricacies

4. Track progress against efficiency goals and make strategy adjustments to course correct as needed
5. Support communication among necessary divisions to avoid service misses
6. Create reports, analysis, or graphs as requested to present results of analysis projects
7. Analyze route metrics and make suggestions for improved efficiencies for assigned branches
8. Regularly review route data for accuracy and DOT compliance
9. Maintain and adhere to information provided on branch info sheets
10. Maintain data entry reporting as requested, including data for sale exceptions reports
11. Create and archive exports and files and requested by assigned deadlines
12. Provide coverage for coworkers as needed

Qualifications

1. Strong work ethic: demonstrates drive toward continuous improvement to meet company and department goals
2. Advanced logical thinking skills

3. Highly organized

4. Flexibility to work overtime as required during peak seasons

5. Strong Computer Skills:

a. Able to easily learn to navigate new software programs
b. Intuitive computer skills
c. Basic Excel skills (beyond data entry): simple formulas, data manipulation, sorting/filtering
d. Basic office software skills: Outlook (email and calendar functions), navigating network drives, Teams
6. Self-starter: Willing and able to seek out and use available resources to find answers and solve problems independently
7. High degree of professionalism and basic business acumen
8. Advanced oral and written communication skills

9. Good time management skills

Time Type:

Full time

Job Type:

Regular Seasonal

Job Family Group:

Distrib & Matls Mgmt

Location Region/State:

Florida

Compensation Range:

Hourly Rate: 22.00

EEO Statement:

Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.

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