Road Freight

About:
**Job Function**:

- Client Liaison, requirements, queries, changes, orders, rates, tracking positions, delays etc.
- Follow up on vehicle delays including border problems till truck offloads
- Loading instructions from clients, including making orders/maps for drivers to load and ensure that vehicle details/driver details are sent to clients.
- Loading driver instructions, ensure driver is briefed were to load and OBE’s needed.
- Ensure vehicle depart to the loading point and border
- Assist driver with queries telephonically, or through order number queries or barcodes.
- Allocate vehicles once they are signed out of the workshop.
- Request documents from clients.
- Handover documents to dispatch to do the necessary to ensure vehicles are dispatched.
- Ensure file have correct rates and details.
- Ensure costing of north and south bound files is done for accounts department.
- Request orders from Sasol for trucks to load in Secunda, updating renaissance system
- Monitor and prepare loading instructions in advance for loading at Sasol Secunda (Sulphur) or any other client.
- Daily monitor and prepare barcodes for vehicles to load in Sasol Secunda using the Sasol Renaissance system.
- Monitor submission of driver trip payments on internal information system.
- Monitor the completion of outgoing driver worksheets and diesel order.
- Monitor driver advances, refunds etc. Petty cash control.
- Assist in the daily load planning spreadsheet in the absence of Operations Manager.
- Monitor and report on fleet efficiencies, i.e. borders, loading and offloading delays.
- Monitor and Report on data within Carlo1.
- Review and Monitor tracking reports to customers.
- Update TMS & tracking with relevant documentation.
- Corridor coupons and fumigation orders
- Receiving south bound documents (PODs, toll slips and parking slips)
- Ensure documents are sent to the border posts.
- Any other delegated tasks deemed as reasonable and as assigned by the reporting manager

**QHSE**
- Ensure all QHSE requirements are adhered too and relevant policies and procedures are followed

**Minimum Education, Experience Requirements & Core Competencies**:

- Matric
- Road Transport qualification or any relevant course qualification is an advantage.
- Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience as a road controller in a similar environment.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and client liaison skills
- Computer literate
- A thorough knowledge of local and cross border transport and logistics

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Gauteng, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application Question(s):

- Do you have experience of Cross-Border transport?

**Experience**:

- Transport: 2 years (preferred)