Director Engineering

Job Title: Freight Broker

Department: Logistics

Location: Mohali

Shift: Night Shift

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary:

As a Freight Broker, you will be responsible for facilitating the transportation of goods between shippers and carriers. Your role will involve managing logistics, building relationships, negotiating contracts, and ensuring timely deliveries. This is an entry-level position ideal for individuals looking to start their careers in logistics and supply chain management.

Key Responsibilities:

Build Relationships:

Develop and maintain relationships with shippers and carriers to understand their needs and preferences.

Load Matching:

Identify and match available loads with appropriate carriers, considering factors such as capacity, routes, and pricing.

Negotiation:

Negotiate rates and terms with carriers to ensure competitive pricing while maintaining profit margins.

Documentation:

Prepare and manage necessary shipping documents, including bills of lading and contracts.

Track Shipments:

Monitor shipments throughout the transportation process to ensure timely delivery and address any issues that arise.

Customer Service:

Provide excellent customer service by communicating with shippers and carriers, addressing inquiries, and resolving disputes.

Market Research:

Stay informed about market trends, competitor activity, and industry regulations to enhance operational effectiveness.

Database Management:

Maintain accurate records in freight brokerage software and databases.

Requirements:

 Bachelor’s degree preferred.

 Proven Experience with OTR, Drayage.

 Proven experience (6+ months) as a Freight Broker, in logistics, or a similar role.

 Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.

 Self-motivated, results-driven, and able to work independently.

 Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Planning, scheduling & coordinating appointments & meetings, providing

reminders, maintaining & updating diary of daily commitments & weekly

calendar on a proactive basis.

 Interacting with & rendering assistance to select HNI & VIP customers,

coordinating certain critical Outdoor Catering & Party Orders, VIP

reservations, etc.

 Receiving calls, taking messages, screening & prioritizing calls & mails.

 Taking down dictations & appropriately drafting data points &

correspondences, proactively responding to queries received through

calls/mails based on feedback & preferences conveyed by the Managing

Director.

 Preparing, editing & compiling agendas, minutes, correspondences &

presentations.

 Organizing & maintaining files, documents as well as other office records,

both offline & online, preserving & safeguarding confidential data &

documents in an efficient manner.

 Making travel arrangements (ticketing, hotel reservations, etc.) on behalf of

the Managing Director & other senior executives, coordinating with outstation

visitors & proactively looking after their boarding & lodging arrangements,

based on preferences conveyed by the Managing Director.

 Undertaking primary as well as secondary research & accordingly, developing

briefs, reports & presentations as per pre-determined timelines.

 Proactively observing & recording various discussions/conversations

undertaken by the Managing Director from time to time & accordingly, framing

action plans.

 Managing communication pertaining to projects, new launches as well as

other such expansion & diversification undertakings that directly come under

the purview of the Managing Director.

 Imparting induction & training to select employees hired for functions that are

directly or indirectly associated to those of the Managing Director’s office.

 Coordinating with outstations suppliers & vendors (China, Italy, etc.)

quotations, purchase orders, purchase/ delivery payments.

 Responding to various inquiries - internal as well as external, acting as a

point of contact between the Managing Director & other employees, tracking

the work plan allocated to certain employees by the Managing Director &

monitoring timelines with regard to the same.

 Organizing & maintaining files, documents as well as other office records,

both offline & online, preserving & safeguarding confidential data &

documents in an efficient manner.

 Negotiating with various suppliers, vendors & contractors, receiving

competitive quotations, making comparisons, making purchases of materials

& supplies based on feedback received from the Managing Director.

 Spearheading all coordination pertaining to maintenance, upkeep & repair of

corporate as well as outlet & store infrastructure (on a case to case basis), as

per directions & preferences issued by the Managing Director from time to

time.

 Undertaking primary as well as secondary research & accordingly, developing

briefs, reports & presentations as per pre-determined timelines.

 Proactively observing & recording various discussions/conversations

undertaken by the Managing Director from time to time & accordingly, framing

action plans.

Note: It’s Special Requirement for EA a part from Corporate Office Policy.

 EA has to work for 09 hours in a day according to the assigned shift.

 C/off will be availed in case EA has worked on his/her week off for the said

week. It should avail within thirty days and it should not be clubbed with

weekly off.

 EA will get only one weekly off once in a week, it may be any one day in a

week (Monday to Sunday).

 Management has reserved all the rights to take decision time to time if

required.

Job Responsibilities:

• Server Monitoring: Monitor server performance and respond to alerts promptly. Troubleshoot and resolve system and network issues.
• Server Disk Cleanup: Regularly analyze and clean up server storage to optimize performance and resource allocation.
• Deployment of New Linux Instances: Create and configure new Linux server instances based on project requirements. Ensure proper security measures and updates during deployment.
• DNS Management: Manage DNS records, domains, and configurations for internal and external services.
• Backing up/Archiving Logs: Implement backup and archiving strategies for server logs to maintain data integrity and facilitate auditing.
• MySQL Backups: Create and manage automated backups of MySQL databases to ensure data integrity. Develop disaster recovery plans.
• System Administration Strategies: Develop and implement system administration strategies to enhance server performance, security, and scalability. Stay updated with industry best practices and emerging technologies

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as a Linux Administrator or similar role (5+ years).
• Proficiency in Linux server administration (CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of: Server monitoring tools (e.g., Nagios, Zabbix). Configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet). Virtualization and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). DNS management (e.g., BIND, AWS Route 53). Backup solutions (e.g., Bacula, AWS Backup). Log management and analysis (e.g., ELK Stack, Graylog). Database administration (e.g., MySQL, MariaDB). Security best practices and firewall configuration. Scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python). Version control systems (e.g., Git). Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus). Networking concepts (TCP/IP, routing). System administration strategies and documentation. Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Roles and Responsibility

Create exciting information visualizations enabling the user to instantly understand the data in the right context, spot patterns, trends and relations in a self-service manner. · Collaborate with designers, developers, and external project partners to ensure designs are implemented as effective user experiences. · Participate in, and integrate feedback from user research. · Define and design use cases, workflows and storyboards describing how the user would interact with easy-to-use, data visualization apps. · Identify all elements of interaction and navigation, and lay them out within a screen so they direct the user without confusion or error. · Create consumer grade usable designs using wireframes and prototypes. · Present your designs in team design reviews as well as to the extended group of internal stakeholders. · Participate in iterative design, testing and development sprint cycles to refine the overall product. · Support marketing activities (e.g. collateral development) around the successful launch of emerging solutions on multiple platforms

Job Description :

*4+ years of software design and development experience.

*Programming experience building .net web applications in .net core/.net 6                                                 

*Must have strong knowledge in any Database.

*AWS and Azure experience will be an added advantage.

*The candidate must have developed a browser-based application and used web services and APIs.

*Good communication skills (both verbal and written)

*Able to prioritize and deliver project activities on time

*Good understanding of client requirements.

What you need to have: