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Bonner Springs, Kansas, United States
Onsite
At Old Dominion, we don't just move freight—we help businesses keep their promises. As one of the nation's leading LTL carriers, we've earned our reputation by putting people first, delivering premium service, and staying true to the values that have guided us for more than 90 years. Our PROMISES values shape how we work, our family culture shapes how we treat one another, and our commitment to being the Best in the Game drives everything we do. If you're looking for more than just a job, you'll find a career built on trust, teamwork, and opportunity at OD.
As a Line Haul Supervisor at Old Dominion, you will oversee freight operations, ensuring timely, efficient, and safe delivery of customer shipments. This fast-paced role requires strong leadership, collaboration with drivers and team members, and the ability to leverage technology to drive performance excellence. Responsibilities include mentoring drivers, optimizing operations, and achieving on-time delivery goals to enhance the overall customer experience.
Old Dominion is currently recruiting for a Line Haul Supervisor to join our OD Family Culture. This role will successfully manage the line haul department of the service center. They will also maintain and achieve department/shift and service center and/or company standards for safety, quality, efficiency, cost, service and delivery, training and development and housekeeping. Our Line Haul Drivers are critical members to our OD Family; they help to accurately deliver our customer's freight and help us keep our promises.
Responsibilities:
Monitors and evaluates the safety of each employee on a daily basis, trains on safety processes as needed
Monitors multiple service center lanes to ensure freight reaches service centers in time for efficient cross docking
Monitors, evaluates, and teaches safe driving habits
Monitors employees to ensure service goals are met
Directly manages, supervises, and assigns tasks to drivers to ensure proper utilization and development of team members while meeting customer expectations.
Closely works with the Operations Manager/Assistant SC Manager, Central Dispatch, and/or Service Center Manager to ensure alignment in meeting daily/weekly/monthly and yearly business objectives.
Provide instruction, analyses, suggestions and ideas for the improvement of operations within the shift, department, and facility
Provides training and feedback to employees on a continual basis regarding RPM, over speed, and idle scores
Constantly uses OD’s proprietary technology system permitting consistent monitoring of shipment locations and drivers as freight moves through the various terminals while communicating continuously throughout the day with associates, customers, and team members verbally and through other computer operating systems
Completes the various company and government forms utilized in freight movement such as shipping manifests, freight bills, inter-terminal movement forms (ITM's) and exception forms
Conducts daily inspections to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal safety regulations, as well as OSHA compliance, and DOT compliance
Conducts quarterly safety meetings
Motivate drivers to exceed goals and maintain the 99% on time percentage
Strive for continuous improvement in all areas of service center operations
Operates AS400 system, BLU system, DYMS, and any other computer/internal freight monitoring systems used within the company to monitor freight movement
Speak with drivers, evaluating their needs and maintaining a successful relationship
Works with dock supervisors on getting trailers closed and moved on to its destination
Qualifications:
High School diploma or equivalent required,
Bachelor’s degree preferred
2 years working operations experience preferably in the transportation industry
Supervisory experience preferred
Working knowledge of AS400, Microsoft Office, DYMS and BLU systems
Knowledge of general DOT regulations
Good verbal and written communication skills
Working Days:
Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday,SundayWorking Shift:
OvernightWork days/shifts may change based on scheduling and business needs and are provided as guidelines at the time of posting.
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Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, and/or gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, military status, Vietnam Era and/or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law(s).
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