Freight Specialist
Libertyville, IL
Full Time
Mid Level
100% On-site position
Summary
The Logistics Freight Coordinator manages shipment scheduling and rating across transportation modes (Truckload, Less-than-Truckload, Assets, Parcel), ensuring timely delivery while negotiating carrier rates. They coordinate routes, track shipments, process documentation, and maintain relationships with internal teams and vendors. The role involves learning shipping processes, staying updated on freight market trends, and contributing to process improvements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.
Education and/or Experience
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties and responsibilities of this position, the employee will be sitting at a desk 90% of the time. Specific vision requirements for this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
During the performance of his/her work duties regularly lift up to 50 pounds and will frequently lift up to 25 pounds, such as removing materials from shipping containers.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee works in a warehouse environment and is occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, work in high places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outdoor weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is loud.
The above statement reflect the general details necessary to describe the principle functions of the occupation describes and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work that may be inherent in the occupation.
Summary
The Logistics Freight Coordinator manages shipment scheduling and rating across transportation modes (Truckload, Less-than-Truckload, Assets, Parcel), ensuring timely delivery while negotiating carrier rates. They coordinate routes, track shipments, process documentation, and maintain relationships with internal teams and vendors. The role involves learning shipping processes, staying updated on freight market trends, and contributing to process improvements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.
- Schedule and rate the movement of shipments with carriers (via TL, LTL, Assets, and Parcel) to the assigned origin and/or destination points and follow up to ensure timely arrival negotiating rates with local carriers
- Developing knowledge of the shipping process and government regulations through cross training with other team members
- Coordinate and work closely with appointed field contacts to ensure common objectives are met, support the company to achieve corporate goals while providing recommendations of continuous process improvements
- Create and supervise routes for multi-stop truck loads
- Communicate with asset and third party drivers for tracking and tracing shipments
- Communicate with customers for tracking and tracing shipments
- Processing of documentation for the freight
- Developing and maintaining an excellent working relationship with internal departments and/or vendors
- Developing basic negotiation skills
- Maintain knowledge of current freight market across the US
- Communicating customer/carrier issues or changes to management
- Utilize transportation management systems (TMS) and freight tracking software to monitor shipments and optimize logistics processes
- Resolve logistical challenges, such as delays or routing issues, through effective problem-solving and decision-making.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Business/Administration, Education, Management, Economics, Marketing, Accounting, Associates, Sciences, Technical, General Education High level of computer literacy, to include Word, Excel and Outlook
- 1-2 years of experience in logistics or freight coordination preferred; knowledge of TL, LTL
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Ability to work with others
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties and responsibilities of this position, the employee will be sitting at a desk 90% of the time. Specific vision requirements for this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
During the performance of his/her work duties regularly lift up to 50 pounds and will frequently lift up to 25 pounds, such as removing materials from shipping containers.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee works in a warehouse environment and is occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, work in high places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outdoor weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is loud.
The above statement reflect the general details necessary to describe the principle functions of the occupation describes and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work that may be inherent in the occupation.
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