OPERATIONS/ PROCUREMENT OFFICER at Mbonny… · Calabar

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and dispatch trucks to ensure timely pickup and delivery of freight.
• Communicate directly with drivers, enforce safety guidelines and resolve on-the-road issues or delays.
• Utilize GPS/Telematics systems to monitor vehicle locations, speed, and delivery progress in real time.
• Ensure all trucks, trailers, and drivers comply with state, national, and company transport regulations (insurance, licensing, permits, and inspection logs).
• Implement process improvements to enhance logistics operations.
• Evaluate the performance of logistics partners and vendors.
• Work with mechanics and service centers to ensure all fleet assets undergo scheduled routine maintenance.
• Act as the primary point of contact during road breakdowns, coordinating emergency repairs, towing, or replacement vehicles to minimize delay.
• Tracking of truck locations by GPS system.
• Identifying and reporting on-road exceptions to project Supervisors and Managers.
• Track maintenance costs per vehicle to identify aging or underperforming assets and inform fleet replacement decisions.
• Monitor operational expenditures (cost-per-mile, fuel efficiency, maintenance expenses) and identify opportunities for cost savings.
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports on fleet utilization, delivery performance, driver safety scores, and procurement savings.
• Identify, evaluate, and negotiate prices with suppliers for tires, spare parts, maintenance and labor costs.
• Oversee spare parts stock levels, preventive maintenance items, and workshop consumables to prevent fleet downtime while avoiding excess inventory.
• Regularly review vendor service quality, pricing, delivery speed, and reliability.
• Manages the purchase, inventory, issuance and reconciliation of parts.
• Schedule timely parts deliveries and to meet up with operational needs.
• Work closely with maintenance, and accounting teams to resolve disputes, track fleet efficiency, and keep operations running smoothly.
• Liaising with drivers and operations personnel i.e calls to be made to confirm location.
• applicable.
• Ensure targeted TAT is achieved and escalate repair/rescue delays.
• Facilitate safety meetings and responsible for briefing and debriefing exercises.
• Prompt retirement of Waybills for invoicing with the Accounts department.
• Ensures that the drivers follow all laws and regulations regarding truck transportation and other safety regulations.
• Forge a working relationship with customers and maintain close contact with owners of goods being delivered as an additional form of monitoring drivers to mitigate sharp practices, keeping them informed of goods delivered.

Job Type: Full-time

Location:

• Calabar (Preferred)

Work Location: In person