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Transportation Supervisor

12/10/2025

The Transportation Supervisor will manage daily operations of transportation, ensuring efficiency while maintaining safety and quality standards. Responsibilities also include preparing performance reports, managing costs, and coordinating with various departments to ensure timely deliveries.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

51-200 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Alliance Steel is a privately owned and operated flat rolled steel service center, with decades of exceeding our customers’ expectations in all facets of the steel service center industry. We operate state of – the art coil processing equipment and the latest coil processing technologies. Alliance Steel maintains an impressive inventory of Hot Rolled steel, Hot Rolled Pickled and Oiled, Cold Roll steel, Hot Dipped Galvanized, Electro - Galvanized, Aluminized, Galvannealed, and Galvalume. We have several strategic locations in the Midwest and Mid – South; Gary, Indiana, HQ and warehouse, and sales offices in Memphis, TN, and Atlanta, GA. In May of 2020, Alliance Steel relocated its HQ’s to Gary, Indiana. Alliance Steel-Gary location provides 300,000 Sq. ft. of processing and inventory space, while simultaneously placing us closer to our mill supply and reducing freight cost to customers. Alliance Steel Service’s include Coil Slitting, Heavy Gauge Slitting, Multi - Blanking and Cut to Length Lines, Stretcher Leveling, Shearing, Laser Cutting (Fiber Lasers) , Logistics and Transportation, Metallurgical Assistance, and Toll Processing and Storage. Have Questions? Need a Quote? Want to learn more about what Alliance Steel can do for you? Contact us today! Email: Sales@alliancesteel.net or call us at 219-427-5400
About the Role

Description

 

With over 50 years’ experience, Alliance Steel, Inc. is one of the most respected customer-focused companies in the business. Alliance specializes in the design, engineering, manufacturing and delivery of high-quality pre-engineered steel and premium building components. We work in a safe, positive, and engaging environment, and believe our employees are the fuel that drives our business.

Alliance Steel, Inc. is seeking Laborers to join our growing team. As a Laborer, you will be responsible for helping other team members with fabrication and welding, operating machinery, deliveries, and maintenance & shop chores.


Duties/Responsibilities:

  

· Manage daily operations of transportation.

· Maximize efficiency of the area while maintaining safety and quality

· Test and monitor shop processes

· Remain in compliance with facility standards and all HSE guidelines

· Prepare, analyze, and issue performance reports

· Control costs to achieve company budget goals

· Develop and implement a comprehensive preventative maintenance program

· On Time Delivery - Coordinate with the shop and the schedule

· Work with quality and ABS departments to finalize documentation for customers

· Manage costs and shop supplies while maintaining all safety and quality programs

· Conduct root-cause analysis on safety and quality incidents and implement processes to prevent further occurrences.

· Manage CRT– Establish measurements, communicate, execute, coach, and hold accountable

· Manage contractors and coordinate between trucking and the shop through planning and scheduling. Ensure that each shop is utilized and efficient. Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in daily processes.

· Assist in Inventory Management and transactional discipline

· DOT Compliance and scheduled audits

· Maximization of CRT Utilization of deliveries and/or pick-ups

· Communication with Customers for delivery timing

· Ensure communication between the loading department and ABS to minimize and finalize back orders

· Manage PO Process for all Contractor deliveries – verify pricing and ensure good representation of Alliance for all vendors used

· Verifies all component tickets and CS tickets are delivered on time

· Performs other duties and responsibilities as necessary

Requirements

    

Required Skills/Abilities: 

· Possess excellent communication skills, both verbal and written 

· Possess strong interpersonal and leadership skills

· Must work effectively with all levels of an organization 

· Must be able to multitask and establish priorities

· Able to lead root-cause analysis investigations

· Attention to detail, accuracy, and organization 

· Proficient with Microsoft Office applications 

· Knowledge of design techniques, blueprints, drawings, and models

· Capable of effectively representing Alliance Steel in professional settings

Dispatch Experience is a plus:

· Scheduling and dispatching drivers, work crews, vehicles or equipment to appropriate locations according to predetermined schedules, customer requests or immediate needs

· Relaying information such as work orders or other messages to and from work crews, field inspectors, supervisors.

· Using telephones, two-way radios or text messages to contact employees

Physical Requirements: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

· Ability to stand, sit, and/or walk on a hard surface as well as safely bend, stoop, reach, climb steps, and use a ladder.

· Lift up to 25 pounds.

· Vision abilities required: close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Vision to accurately read all related distribution documents and computer monitor screens.

Key Skills
Communication SkillsInterpersonal SkillsLeadership SkillsMultitaskingAttention to DetailMicrosoft OfficeDesign TechniquesBlueprintsRoot-Cause AnalysisInventory ManagementDOT ComplianceCost ManagementSafety ProgramsQuality ProgramsSchedulingDispatch Experience
Categories
Management & LeadershipLogisticsTransportationManufacturing
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