Transport Scheduler
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
About the Role
An exciting career awaits you at MPC. We’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Processes incoming order requests from customers for fuel deliveries.
- Provides customers with delivery status updates and delivery time estimates.
- Monitors scheduling database to ensure information is available for accurate forecasting of deliveries.
- Oversees delivery schedules to ensure timely execution and optimal inventory levels at sites.
- Provides support to internal and external customers.
- Responds to customer requests for delivery information and investigates customer delivery complaints.
- Maximizes the profitability of company fleet assets by maximizing loaded miles, payload, and equipment utilization.
- Optimizes routes and creates delivery schedules that produce the safest, most efficient, and cost-effective logistical solutions.
- Manages the delivery process to ensure deliveries are made in accordance with Fuel Transportation Agreements and customer delivery requirements.
- Ensures adequate trucking resources are available to meet customer demand and that carrier sourcing obligations are adhered to.
- Processes incoming calls regarding delivery incidents and communicates vital information to key stakeholders for incident response.
- Participates in the investigation of product quality inquiries and delivery shortages.
- Assists with reconciliation and research of deliveries and fuel inventories.
- Provides instructions to carriers to resolve delivery issues and participates in root cause reviews of delivery issue investigations.
- Escalates unplanned supply disruption and terminal issues and communicates the resolution to carriers.
- Works with carriers, schedulers, and loading terminals to investigate and resolve loading issues.
- Provides notice to carriers of planned terminal and site downtimes.
- Performs analyses to ensure products are sourced properly and that contract obligations are fulfilled.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- High School Diploma/GED required.
- Undergraduate degree in Logistics, Business, or Analytics preferred.
- Minimum 1 years of internal Transport Scheduling experience needed to apply (for Support Level 4).
Qualifications
- Support Level 1 (S1): 0-1 years of related experience.
- Support Level 2 (S2): 1-2 years of related experience.
- Support Level 3 (S3): 2+ years of related experience.