Build Your Career in Transportation Operations
Christenson Transportation is seeking a smart, dependable, and resourceful individual to join our team as a Weekend Operations Specialist. This cross-functional position supports our Operations, Safety, and Maintenance departments while helping keep our drivers, equipment, and customers moving safely and efficiently.
You do not need extensive transportation experience to succeed in this role. We are looking for someone who learns quickly, communicates well, exercises good judgment, and takes ownership of problems through resolution.
This position provides exposure to several important areas of our business and is designed to develop someone who can take on greater responsibility and advance within the organization.
What You’ll Do
Operations
- Support drivers and monitor freight movement throughout the weekend (Friday-Monday - 4 day, 10 hour shifts).
- Communicate load information, schedules, customer requirements, and operational updates.
- Identify potential service failures and take proactive steps to prevent or minimize them.
- Assist with load coverage, driver availability, truck planning, and equipment utilization.
- Coordinate with drivers, customers, vendors, and other departments to resolve issues.
- Document important events and provide clear handoffs to weekday teams.
- Escalate significant issues to the appropriate leader when necessary.
Safety
- Assist drivers with accidents, incidents, roadside inspections, weather concerns, and other safety-related situations.
- Gather and document accurate information following accidents or incidents.
- Help drivers make safe and compliant decisions involving road conditions, hours of service, and equipment concerns.
- Coordinate with Safety leadership, law enforcement, towing companies, repair facilities, and other parties as needed.
- Recognize serious or high-risk situations and escalate them appropriately.
Maintenance
- Assist drivers experiencing breakdowns, warning lights, tire problems, and other equipment issues.
- Coordinate roadside service, towing, repairs, and communication with maintenance vendors.
- Track repair progress and communicate updates affecting drivers or customer service.
- Help ensure equipment with a potential safety issue is properly evaluated before returning to operation.
- Provide clear documentation and follow-up information to the Maintenance team.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Sound judgment and the confidence to make reasonable decisions.
- A high level of personal responsibility and follow-through.
- Clear, professional verbal and written communication.
- The ability to remain calm and organized when situations become urgent.
- Comfort managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- The ability to learn new systems, processes, and industry concepts quickly.
- Dependability and consistent availability for the assigned weekend schedule.
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- College education or relevant professional experience is preferred.
- Experience in transportation, logistics, dispatch, customer service, maintenance, safety, or operations is helpful but not required.
What Success Looks Like
Successful Weekend Operations Specialists:
- Respond promptly and professionally when drivers or customers need assistance.
- Take ownership of issues and follow them through to resolution.
- Make thoughtful decisions balancing safety, service, cost, and driver needs.
- Anticipate potential problems before they become emergencies.
- Know when to make a decision and when an issue needs to be escalated.
- Communicate important information clearly and provide reliable handoffs.
- Continually learn and develop a broader understanding of the business.
- Earn the trust of drivers, coworkers, customers, and company leadership.
Career Growth
This position is designed to help build the next generation of talent within Christenson Transportation. Because the Weekend Operations Specialist works across Operations, Safety, and Maintenance, the individual will gain a broad understanding of how the company operates.
The experience gained in this role can prepare a successful employee for future opportunities in fleet operations, driver management, planning, safety, maintenance coordination, customer service, or leadership.
Advancement is based on performance, demonstrated ability, organizational needs, and readiness for additional responsibility.
Why Christenson Transportation?
This is an opportunity to build a career—not simply work a weekend shift. You will be trusted to solve real problems, support professional drivers, learn multiple areas of the transportation business, and demonstrate your potential for advancement.
If you are intelligent, dependable, willing to learn, and motivated to take on increasing responsibility, we would like to hear from you.
Apply today to join the Christenson Transportation team in Strafford, Missouri.
Pay: $46,736.52 - $52,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
