Transportation Specialist

**Career Area**:Supply Chain and Logistics**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.**When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other.We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities.We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.**Role Definition**Analyzes and develops transportation plans to control the movement of commodities throughout a manufacturing or distribution network to ensure the smooth running of operations at optimal transportation cost levels.**Responsibilities**- Analyzing transportation plans and identifying opportunities for improvements to meet client needs.- Implementing and maintaining monitoring systems to provide information on shipment status, shipped date, in transit location, estimated arrival date, and actual delivery date.- Generating and analyzing reports of transportation costs, carrier performance and lead times.- Assisting in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity and providing solutions to reduce lead times.**Skill Descriptors**Process Management:- Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.- Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.- Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.- Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.- Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.Analytical Thinking:- Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.- Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.- Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.- Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.- Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.- Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.Decision Making and Critical Thinking:- Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.- Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.- Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.- Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.**Problem Solving**:- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.**Relationship Management**:- Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.- Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.- Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.- Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.- Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.- Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.Transportation - PHA:- Demonstrates expertise with all major modes of domestic transportation.- Shares approaches for assessing transportation alternatives and selecting optimum mode.- Conducts joint planning with carriers to forecast short- and long-term transportation needs.- Participates in evaluation, selection, monitoring and termination of carriers.- Works with shippers to plan for and mitigate the transportation capacity crunch.- Negotiates and monitors rates and service controls with major carriers.Logistics Management:- Uses tools, with guidance, to forecast delivery times, determine costs and assess performance.- Works with logistics in a domestic environment.- Maintains records of all shipments and invoices using an established system.- Assists in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity.- Participates in integrating logistics processes and developing effective networks.Supply Chain Management:- Recognizes software systems or components used to manage supply chain.- Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.- Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.- Summarizes supply chain considerations for different types of products.- Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.**What is required**:- Bachelor's degree completed.- Minimum of 7-10 years of Lo