The Role at a GlanceThe Local Planner coordinates and dispatches daily local jobs, ensuring efficient crew assignments, paperwork accuracy, and communication with teams and customers. This role supports operations through morning dispatch, equipment and uniform compliance, labor management, and data updates.
How You’ll Contribute
As a Local Planner, you will coordinate daily operations by working closely with customers, agents, sales staff, and internal teams to ensure moves are executed efficiently and on time. You’ll manage morning dispatch and crew assignments, playing a key role in the day’s logistics.
You will review paperwork with crews and ensure compliance with uniform standards and equipment cleanliness. Hosting daily huddles, proofreading documentation for auditing, and maintaining strong communication with crews and customer service coordinators are essential parts of your day-to-day responsibilities. You’ll also monitor alerts and address any non-conformance issues as they arise.
Keeping current data related to quality, claims, and safety will also be part of your duties. You will also help support company standards and performance goals.
Additional duties may be assigned depending on your warehouse, the time of year, and the needs of your team.
Qualifications, Skills, and Functional Job Requirements
Education/Work Experience/Certificates
Two to four years of experience in the moving and storage industrySolid understanding of the geographical areaKnowledge and understanding of truck sizes, types, and functionsFluent in English (written and verbal) with the ability to converse in Spanish
Core Skills
Customer Focused, Collaborative, Communicative, Resilient, Strive for inclusion of others
Functional Job Requirements
Must be able to regularly move around the office. Must be able to go back and forth between the office and the warehouse in varying temperatures. Must be able to physically check/inspect trucks. Must also be able to operate a computer and process paperwork for an extended period of time. While this is a standard in-office Monday to Friday role, you will be required to work one Saturday per month. Additional Saturdays may be required during the summer.
