Job Title: Transportation Coordinator (Afternoon Shift)
Location: Cambridge, ON
Pay Rate: $22.00/hour + vacation pay
Type: Temporary (6 months with possibility of extension)
Schedule: Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday 8:00 AM to 6:30 PM
Training: 10–12 weeks, Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Kelly Services is hiring on behalf of our client in Cambridge for a Transportation Coordinator role. This position supports evening transportation operations, acting as the main point of contact for customers, drivers, and carriers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as primary contact for customers, drivers, and carriers during afternoon/evening operations
- Provide shipment updates and respond to inquiries via phone, email, and dispatch systems
- Monitor trips to ensure on-time pickups and deliveries
- Assign loads and coordinate with drivers and dispatch teams as needed
- Track shipment activity using Trimble and update internal systems
- Handle after-hours issues including delays, breakdowns, and missed pickups
- Coordinate with maintenance or road service for equipment issues
- Escalate urgent issues to day-shift teams when required
- Maintain accurate logs, reports, and exception documentation
- Ensure smooth shift handoffs between teams
Qualifications:
- Previous experience in transportation/logistics required
- Supply Chain education is an asset
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and quick to learn new systems
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to problem-solve in a fast-paced environment
Why Kelly®?
As a worker today,
it’s up to you to take charge of your career and look for opportunities to learn, grow and achieve your potential. Helping you find what’s next is what we’re all about. We know what’s going on in the evolving world of work—just ask the nearly 500,000 people we employ each year. Connecting with us means getting the support, guidance and opportunities needed to take your career where you may have never imagined.
About Kelly®
At Kelly, we’re always thinking about what’s next and advising job seekers on recent ways of working to reach their full potential. In fact, we’re a leading advocate for temporary/non-traditional workstyles, because we believe they allow flexibility and tremendous growth opportunities that enable a better way to work and live. Connecting great people with great companies is what we do best and our employment opportunities span a wide variety of workstyles, skill levels and industries around the world.
Kelly is an equal opportunity employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all parts of the hiring process as required under its Employment Accommodation Policy. Kelly will work with applicants to meet accommodation needs that are made known to Kelly in advance.
Pay: $22.00 per hour
Application question(s):
- Do you have previous experience working in transportation, logistics, or a dispatch environment?
- Have you worked in a role where you tracked shipments, loads, or deliveries?
Work Location: In person
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