Expeditors

Transcon Agent

Expeditors  •  Laredo, TX (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

As a Fortune 500 company, Expeditors employs more than 16,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 329 locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customize solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include the consolidation and forwarding or air or ocean freight. Customs brokerage, vendor consolidation, cargo insurance, time-define transportation. Order and risk management, warehousing. distribution and customized logistics solutions. Expeditors is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Scope of Position

Responsible for timely and accurate movement of freight and information, while providing an exceptional customer service and constantly driving efficiency, supporting our Vision and Mission Statement, making our promise real to our customers.

Key Deliverables

• Proactively monitor the following key metrics to achieve the expected results:

  • Operational Effectiveness
    • Product OPA Audit Result – Perform consistently at the highest level.
    • 100% approved Service Providers.
    • 100% PU&D Connectivity.

General responsibilities:

  • Exemplify and Teach Our Culture, Mission and Goals.
  • Follow the 10 Critical Success Factor.
  • Contribute to build healthy cross-functional relationship and work environment, promote team spirit and cohesiveness in the department.
  • Complete 52-hour trainings per year (4.33 per month) and required training timely.
  • Own your self-development. Prepare, follow-up and execute on your personal development goals.
  • Escalation of issues to immediate supervisor and/or manager, or any other required team with the adequate expertise, as example, compliance, accounting, etc.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Comply with company controls, policies, procedures.
  • Properly use Expeditor systems and tools, such as CFIT, ETMS, CRM, ECCO, EDOC.
  • Meet KPI Standards (RDL, DLV, POD) in accordance with the Company’s Procedures (OPS).
  • Maintain highest compliance levels for all applicable Transcon requirements.
  • Contribute to operational effectiveness and comply with District Excellence metrics applicable on your process.
  • Log files correctly and timely with proper codes, trace types and events.
  • Ensure accurate and timely billing of customers and vendors.
  • Understand and comply with the expectations on Customer SOP.
  • Ensure that all correspondence is handled timely and professionally.
  • Participate in daily huddle meetings and department meetings.
  • Escalate issues to Lead, Supervisor or Operations Manager as needed.

Finance:

  • Comply with all our policies, including the credit policy.
  • All files processed are timely and correctly billed.
  • Constantly work on prevent monetary losses.

Security, Health & Safety:

  • Responsible to immediately notify the Branch’s Health and Safety representative any unsafe condition that could put employees at risk in the workplace as well as any incident or accident.

Qualifications

To be the most effective in this position we are looking for the following skills and

experience:

• Education: Associate's degree in foreign trade, preferred or equivalent convention of education and experience.

• Experience in the logistic field or domestic transportation, preferred.

• Hazardous Materials Certification (HAZMAT), preferred.

• Customer Satisfaction oriented.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, ability to communicate at all levels written and oral communication.

• Time management skills and attention to detail.

• Self-driven personality.

• Good computer skills, and ability to learn new programs and tools including knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications.

• English and Spanish fluency.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Expeditors

About Expeditors

Expeditors is a Fortune 500 service-based logistics company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, USA. At Expeditors, we generate highly optimized and customized supply chain solutions for our clients with unified technology systems integrated through a global network of over 350 locations in 100+ countries on six continents. Expeditors is focused on the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include air and ocean freight consolidation and forwarding, vendor consolidation, customs clearance, cargo insurance, distribution and other value-added logistics services.

We pride ourselves on being a solutions-based organization that takes the time to understand each customer's individual business needs. As a non-asset based organization, we have considerable flexibility when managing customers'​ supply chains. Our relationships with local suppliers and global air and ocean partners provides our customers with the best routing and pricing options. Expeditors'​ comprehensive, flexible spectrum of services is supported by leading-edge information technology providing the highest level of end to end visibility.

To maintain consistent quality and customer service across the globe, Expeditors has regional headquarters located in London, Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore.

At Expeditors, our industry professionals, award winning processes and globally unified systems ensure that we always live up to our promise, "You'd be surprised how far we'll go for you."​

Industry
Transportation & Logistics
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Bellevue, Washington
Year Founded
1979
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