Logistics Specialist at Essex Solutions in Ft.Wayne, IN
- Company: Essex Solutions
- Location: Ft.Wayne, IN
- Posted: Sep 22, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 2+ years
Overview
The Logistics Representative is responsible for coordinating daily material movements, ensuring timely and accurate shipments, maintaining inventory flow, and supporting production requirements. This role serves as a key liaison between carriers, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure uninterrupted…
Job description
- The Logistics Representative is responsible for coordinating daily material movements, ensuring timely and accurate shipments, maintaining inventory flow, and supporting production requirements. This role serves as a key liaison between carriers, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure uninterrupted operations and on time delivery performance.
Responsibilities
- Coordinates inbound and outbound shipments, ensuring accuracy of documentation, routing, and carrier scheduling.
- Collects and analyzes logistics data such as transportation costs, lead times, and inventory levels to support operational decision making.
- Identifies trends and patterns in logistics data to support demand forecasting and optimize overall supply chain performance.
- Tracks shipments and proactively resolves delays, discrepancies, or carrier issues.
- Communicates daily with carriers, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure alignment on delivery schedules and logistics priorities.
- Collaborates with cross‑functional teams to identify logistics improvement opportunities and support implementation of solutions.
- Supports freight claims, carrier performance reviews, and logistics compliance activities.
- Coordinates expedited shipments when required to support critical production needs.
- Supports continuous improvement initiatives related to logistics efficiency, cost reduction, and service reliability.
- Develops and maintains logistics performance metrics and KPIs to monitor operational effectiveness.
- Provides support for logistics related projects and initiatives as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field.
- 2+ Experience in logistics, shipping/receiving, transportation coordination, or related supply chain roles.
- Knowledge of logistics systems, ERP transactions, TMS software and shipping documentation.
- Experience working with carriers, freight forwarders, or warehouse operations.
- Effective communication, proactive initiative, and strong problem‑solving skills.
Skills
Required
- Knowledge of logistics systems
- ERP transactions
- TMS software
- shipping documentation
- Effective communication
- proactive initiative
- strong problem-solving skills