- assisting the Transportation Operations management team in directing the day-to-day activities associated with the planning and execution of our transportation strategy
- efficiently executing our outbound delivery and backhaul pick up plan through the optimal assignment of our transportation orders (trips) to our Publix truck drivers in a manner that meets our high service level commitment to our stores
- identifying daily staffing needs
- dynamically assigning labor and equipment to our daily workload
- maximizing on time delivery performance
- minimizing operational costs
- balancing driver's workdays
- ensuring compliance to all federal and state transportation hours of service (HOS) regulations
- making the necessary adjustments to the plan in response to fluctuations in traffic conditions, weather, labor, and workload including unplanned requests from warehousing, manufacturing, and retail
- directly interacting with truck drivers, Transportation Operations management, fleet safety, corporate transportation, warehousing, manufacturing and return center associates, serves as a liaison with Warehousing, Manufacturing, and Retail and requires expertise in store locations, our Activity Based Pay system for truck drivers (DCP), our Transportation Driver Performance System (TDPS), our On Board Computer system (OBC), our Publix Transportation operations policies and procedures as well as all transportation related State and Federal regulations.
- the responsibilities on this posting are not intended to be all-inclusive and additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.