Are you searching for a new career opportunity? Dahl Consulting is currently partnering with a global company in the food industry. We work one-on-one with great candidates to help connect them with local employment opportunities. This company is hiring a Rail Transportation Professional for a contract role! Interested? Get more details below!
- Contract Duration: 6-months
- Worksite Location: Wayzata, MN | hybrid
What you’ll do as a Rail Transportation Professional:
- Assist in managing supply chain activities to bring products and ingredients into warehouses, vendors, plants, or directly to customers.
- Complete necessary documentation and data entry to facilitate the smooth and timely movement of goods.
- Develop and maintain relationships with vendors and partners to manage order and shipment changes, enabling optimal buying and selling decisions to reduce costs and improve profitability.
- Execute specialized transportation and logistics tasks, including material resource planning, claims handling, and customer service.
- Facilitate shipments based on purchase and sales contracts, process internal and external purchase orders and invoices.
- Perform data entry and updates using enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, spreadsheets, and databases.
- Resolve basic logistics issues and provide recommendations to enhance freight movements and cost efficiency.
- Assist with routine scheduling, transportation arrangements, stock inventory management, and shipment reporting in line with purchase and sales contracts.
- Support the inbound movement of raw commodity ingredients and finished goods, ensuring efficient logistics operations.
- Manage logistics activities, including transportation capacity planning, third-party warehouse management, vendor coordination, container administration, and import shipments.
- Handle basic logistics issues and escalate more complex problems to senior staff.
What you’ll bring to the Rail Transportation Professional role:
- 2+ years experience in supply chain, logistics, or transportation.
- Preferably Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
- Microsoft Office applications experience
- Support role for rail related movement
