With over 70 years in business, Northwest Tank Lines has built its reputation on integrity, safety, customer service, and operational excellence. As one of Canada’s premier tank truck companies, we specialize in the transportation of bulk liquid products throughout Western Canada, including petroleum products, condensate, produced water, propane, butane, NGLs, and other regulated dangerous goods.

We are currently hiring a Logistics Coordinator to join our Northern Alberta Operations team. This role is best suited for someone with strong computer skills and a high level of comfort working across multiple systems, combined with oilfield transportation experience and a solid understanding of dangerous goods compliance. The successful candidate will manage paperwork digitally, close out orders accurately, and stay organized in a fast-paced environment.

Preference will be given to candidates with dispatch experience in bulk fluid hauling, dangerous goods transportation, and tank truck operations involving products such as butane, propane, NGLs, condensate, and produced water.

This position will report to the Operations Lead, Northern Alberta. Candidates should reside in the Grande Prairie area. The successful candidate will work out of our Grande Prairie office.

Position Overview The Logistics Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating the daily movement of drivers, trucks, trailers, and customer loads across Northern Alberta and surrounding operating areas. This includes working closely with drivers, customers, field personnel, maintenance, and operations leadership to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient service.

This is not a basic dispatch role. The successful candidate must understand the demands of oilfield transportation, changing field conditions, customer requirements, driver hours, equipment limitations, and compliance expectations related to the movement of dangerous goods.

Duties and Responsibilities

- Coordinate daily workflow for trucks, trailers, and drivers.
- Dispatch tank trucks for oilfield-related hauling, including condensate, produced water, propane, butane, and NGLs.
- Manage fleet resources based on driver availability, equipment availability, customer demand, and operating schedules.
- Monitor and adjust dispatch plans throughout the day as conditions change.
- Communicate clearly with drivers, customers, maintenance, field personnel, and operations leadership.
- Work with Maintenance to coordinate equipment servicing, repairs,



inspections, and availability.
- Ensure drivers are properly assigned based on qualifications, orientations, site requirements, and product-specific requirements.
- Support compliance with Transportation of Dangerous Goods requirements and company safety standards.
- Review driver documents for accuracy, including tickets, hours, paperwork, and supporting documentation.
- Approve billable and payable hours where required.
- Plan and schedule around plant interruptions, outages, weather impacts, haul diversions, holidays, equipment downtime, and customer changes.
- Review dispatch schedules and plant details daily, then strategically adjust plans as needed.
- Track driver orientations and ensure drivers remain compliant for customer and site access.
- Support safe and efficient movement of pressure vessels and related tank truck equipment where applicable.
- Assist with administrative duties related to dispatch, operations, reporting, and documentation.
- Participate in site or field visits as required.

Required Qualifications

- Robust computer skills and the ability to learn new software quickly.
- Proficiency with Google Workspace, including Drive, Sheets, Docs, and Gmail.
- Ability to build, update, and maintain tracking spreadsheets, including sorting, filtering, and basic formulas.
- Fast, accurate data entry and order close-out in a dispatch or transportation management system.
- Ability to review, organize, and file tickets, hours, and driver documents electronically.
- Comfortable working across several systems at once (dispatch software, email, and spreadsheets) while maintaining accuracy.
- Previous experience in oilfield transportation, fluid hauling, or bulk liquid hauling.
- Previous dispatch, logistics, transportation, or operations experience.
- Working knowledge of Transportation of Dangerous Goods requirements and related compliance expectations.
- Strong understanding of driver scheduling, equipment availability, customer requirements, and changing field conditions.
- Excellent communication skills with drivers, customers, maintenance,



and operations teams.
- Strong attention to detail, especially when reviewing tickets, driver documents, hours, and compliance-related information.
- Ability to make sound decisions under pressure and manage multiple priorities while maintaining safety, service quality, and operational efficiency.
- A motivated individual with an uncompromising commitment to safety.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with TMW or a similar transportation management system.
- Intermediate spreadsheet skills, such as lookups, pivot tables, and building simple reports.
- Experience with electronic logging, GPS tracking, or fleet telematics platforms.
- Dispatch experience specifically in bulk fluid hauling or tank truck operations.
- Experience with butane, propane, NGLs, condensate, produced water, or other regulated bulk liquid products.
- Previous experience coordinating dangerous goods transportation.
- Familiarity with dangerous goods documentation, placarding, product handling requirements, and compliance expectations.
- Pressure vessel experience is highly recommended.
- Post-secondary education or training in logistics, transportation, business administration, or a related field.
- Previous experience working with oilfield customers, plant sites, terminals, or remote operating areas.

What Northwest Offers

- Steady, full-time employment.
- Competitive salary.
- Health, dental, and extended benefits after 3 months.
- Health and Wellness Spending Account.
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan matching.
- Semi-annual Education Fund Scholarship opportunities for you and your family members.
- Casual dress.
- Flexible schedule.
- On-site parking.
- Opportunity to be part of a growing Northern Alberta operations team.

Work Location Grande Prairie, Alberta In person

Application Notice

Thank you for applying to Northwest Tank Lines. While we appreciate the time everyone takes to submit an application, only applicants selected to move forward in the interview process will be contacted.

Northwest Tank Lines does not work with third-party recruitment organizations and contacts applicants we are interested in directly. Please do not respond to any emails through Indeed or other platforms that claim to represent Northwest Tank Lines unless they come directly from Northwest.

Benefits

- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Flexible schedule
- On-site parking
- RRSP match

Work Location: In person

📌 Logistics Coordinator (Grande Prairie)
🏢 Northwest Tank Lines
📍 Grande Prairie