The posting
Dispatch Supervisor
Responsibilities:
- Maintain workflow by motivating drivers and vehicle loading assistants to work efficiently and correctly
- Check attendance of drivers and vehicle loading assistants; report absentees promptly to the Logistics Manager
- Ensure all drivers, vehicle loading assistants, and yourself wear clean, undamaged protective clothing as per company policy
- Assist the Logistics Manager in planning daily dispatch routes and loading activities
- Source completed invoices from invoicing personnel
- Ensure all routes are documented on the trip sheet allocated to each delivery route
- Ensure all individual orders are marked off on the correct invoice copy during loading
- Ensure that drivers and vehicle loading assistants follow your instructions and perform duties as per their job descriptions
- Coordinate and control the loading of final orders
- Check products for deviations from quality standards (e.g., labels, lot or batch numbers, and packaging) before loading
- Ensure all products are correctly weighed before loading
- Maintain good housekeeping practices in the dispatch area
- Implement and maintain measures to reduce wastage and damage to stock during loading
- Ensure that temperature controls in the dispatch area and for all products being loaded are adhered to
- Train new personnel in proper loading procedures



