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General Transportation Manager
Employer
Optimum Truck Lines LtdDate Posted
July 04, 2024Languages
English-
Location Calgary, AB
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Earnings $63.00 hourly
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Work Hours 40 to 50 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Nov 01, 2024
Employer
Optimum Truck Lines Ltd
Languages
English
Education
Bachelor's degree
Work setting
Trucking company
Tasks
- Evaluate daily operations
- Monitor department's performance
- Plan and organize daily operations
- Recruit staff
- Train staff
- Manage finances or budget
- Ensure transport compliance with regulations
- Oversee the scheduling and dispatching of vehicles and goods
- Oversee the setting of transportation service rates and monitor revenue
- Organize and maintain inventory
- MS Office
- Authorize and organize the establishment of major departments and associated senior staff positions
- Allocate material, human and financial resources to implement organizational policies and programs
- Establish objectives for the organization and formulate or approve policies and programs
- Establish financial and administrative controls; formulate and approve promotional campaigns; and approve overall human resources planning
- Select middle managers, directors or other executive staff; delegate the necessary authority to them and create optimum working conditions
- Co-ordinate the work of regions, divisions or departments
- Represent the organization, or delegate representatives to act on behalf of the organization, in negotiations or other official functions
Supervision
- 11-15 people
- Working groups
Computer and technology knowledge
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
- MS Outlook
Transportation/travel information
Willing to travel
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Fast-paced environment
- Large workload
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Ability to work independently
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Analytical
- Proactive
Experience
5 years or more
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Interest Codes
- DIRECTIVE
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Interest in co-ordinating information to direct, control and evaluate the operations of transportation companies, and to determine safety procedures for the handling of dangerous goods; and in overseeing dispatch of vehicles, vessels or aircraft and in recruiting personnel and overseeing their training
- METHODICAL
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Interest in monitoring company and departmental performance, in planning changes to schedules and policies and in ensuring that company procedures comply with transport regulations
- social
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Interest in negotiating with personnel and senior management to change schedules and policies
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.
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