Job Type: Full-Time
Schedule: Day Shift
Why Dispatch for ATCO?
You could dispatch anywhere – so why work with ATCO?
- Opportunity to Grow: We want people ready to work in a fast-paced environment. Put your running shoes on! We are starting at a sprint so you can show that you have extensive growth potential.
- Drivers are Family: First to the finish line, means first to respect all those working to get there with us. We push for the goals and strive for success. Our first goal is to respect each job and the person committed to that job. Make yourself the leader by tying up loose ends and keeping your drivers from being tripped up.
- Great Benefits: Health Insurance, Dental, Supplemental Insurance options, 401K with matching options!
Position Description:
An ATCO dispatcher is responsible for coordinating outgoing and incoming movement of loads to ensure all trucks and drivers are utilized effectively in a timely manner.
You’ll also be in continuous communication with drivers, vendors, and customers, primarily by phone but via messaging apps and email as well. By doing so, we can provide coordinated and communicated service to our customers.
Must know how to read a map on paper as well as a computer (google). Must know major routing without having to reference a map every step of the way. If it is a common route then it should be repeatable when sending multiple drivers along it for pickup and delivery.
- Coordinate the commercial truck drivers.
- Plan the activities in a constantly changing environment in order to successfully reach productivity goals of each commercial vehicle in the fleet.
- Maximizing utilization and miles under load of the commercial vehicles.
- Creating an environment of success for each commercial truck driver and an opportunity to reach each customers goals and needs.
Qualifications
- 1 year of dispatching experience
- Acceptable equivalent is 1 or more years driving truck in the construction and design build industry with customer service experience in another job
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and communicate with both external and internal customers
- Possess excellent computer skills and experience using Microsoft Suite (Excel, Microsoft Word, Outlook), office/data entry and scheduling programs
- Able to multitask, think fast, and work well under pressure
- Able to handle a constant high volume of calls both incoming and outgoing.
- Independent worker
About ATCO Hauling
ATCO Hauling is a family-owned and operated business that’s been in the Hampton Roads since 1989. We are the largest independent trucking fleet in the area that works in the construction and design build industry.