Yard & Transportation Coordinator

For those who want to keep growing, learning, and evolving. Kelly® is here for you. We’re seeking an experienced Yard & Transportation Coordinator for a direct-hire opportunity with a premier client in Richmond, VA.

If you have strong experience coordinating trailer movement, dock activity, routing, transportation vendors, drivers, and warehouse flow, this could be a great next step.

DIRECT HIRE

Location: Richmond, VA
Pay: $31.00 per hour
Shift: 1st Shift | 7:00 AM–3:30 PM

What You’ll Be Doing

As the Yard & Transportation Coordinator, you’ll serve as a key link between Operations, Inventory, warehouse teams, drivers, carriers, and transportation vendors to help keep freight, trailers, equipment, and materials moving safely and efficiently.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating daily yard, dock, trailer, routing, scheduling, fleet, and transportation activities
  

• Working closely with Operations, Inventory, warehouse teams, drivers, carriers, and outside transportation vendors
  

• Coordinating receiving, shipping, deliveries, freight pickups, and trailer movements
  

• Organizing yard staging, dock assignments, routing, scheduling, and equipment availability
  

• Communicating with drivers and transportation providers regarding pickup times, delivery schedules, routing, delays, and service issues
  

• Maintaining accurate records for trailers, shipments, yard locations, routes, freight activity, and transportation rates
  

• Monitoring trailer dwell time, yard congestion, dock utilization, inbound/outbound activity, and traffic flow
  

• Identifying operational bottlenecks and helping develop solutions to improve efficiency
  

• Partnering with warehouse and inventory teams to prioritize loads and coordinate available trailers, docks, equipment, and transportation resources
  

• Investigating and communicating discrepancies involving shipments, inventory, documentation, routing, yard activity, or delivery
  

• Collecting and reporting transportation and shipping data to support operational decisions
  

• Supporting compliance with transportation, safety, quality, and documentation requirements
  

• Auditing yard and transportation processes and identifying opportunities to improve workflow
  

• Maintaining effective communication across internal departments and external transportation partners

This Job Might Be an Outstanding Fit If You:

• Have a high school diploma or GED
  

• Bring 2–5 years of related transportation, logistics, yard, warehouse, fleet, or shipping experience
  

• Have experience coordinating drivers, carriers, freight, trailers, docks, routing, or transportation vendors
  

• Are comfortable working across multiple departments including Operations, Inventory, Shipping, Receiving, and Transportation
  

• Have strong organizational and problem-solving skills
  

• Can independently prioritize multiple time-sensitive responsibilities
  

• Have experience resolving shipment, transportation, scheduling, or routing issues
  

• Communicate effectively with drivers, vendors, carriers, warehouse employees, and leadership
  

• Are comfortable working in a fast-paced warehouse and transportation environment
  

• Have basic computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, and email
  

• Have experience with SAP, OpenDoc, transportation databases, or similar systems
  

• Have strong attention to detail and a proactive approach to daily operations

Work Environment

This role includes a combination of office, warehouse, yard, and outdoor work.

You should be comfortable:

• Moving between office, warehouse, dock, and yard areas
  

• Working around trucks, trailers, forklifts, and other moving equipment
  

• Working outdoors in varying weather conditions
  

• Working in heat, cold, humidity, and moderate noise
  

• Operating in an active logistics environment where communication and safety awareness are critical

What Happens Next

Once you apply, you’ll move to the next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. Even if this particular opportunity isn’t the right match, you’ll remain part of the Kelly network, giving our recruiters access to your profile for future opportunities.

Helping you discover what’s next in your career is what we’re all about.

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