Green Zone Recycling | Durham, NC
Transportation & Route Planning Coordinator
Green Zone Recycling | Durham, NC
$54,000–$60,000 per year | Full-Time | Monday–Friday | On-Site
Put Your Transportation and Logistics Experience to Work
Green Zone Recycling is looking for an experienced Transportation & Route Planning Coordinator to help manage and improve our daily transportation operations.
If you have experience in logistics, dispatch, transportation coordination, route planning, fleet operations, or driver scheduling, we want to hear from you.
This is not a driving position. This is an on-site operational planning role where you will use data, routing technology, and real-time information to build efficient routes, coordinate driver schedules, solve transportation issues, and identify ways to improve productivity and control costs.
We are looking for someone who understands that transportation rarely goes exactly as planned. Routes change. Customers have different requirements. Drivers encounter delays. Priorities shift. You need to be able to look at the entire operation, identify the best solution, communicate it clearly, and keep things moving.
What You'll Be Responsible For
Route Planning & Optimization
- Build and optimize daily pickup routes based on location, volume, service requirements, truck capacity, and operational priorities.
- Review routes for unnecessary mileage, excessive drive time, and other inefficiencies.
- Make route adjustments when customer needs, volumes, staffing, or operating conditions change.
- Look for opportunities to improve route density and driver productivity.
Transportation & Driver Coordination
- Coordinate daily driver schedules and route assignments.
- Ensure drivers have accurate route and service information before beginning their day.
- Monitor route progress and respond to delays, changes, missed pickups, or other transportation issues.
- Communicate professionally and effectively with drivers, operations personnel, management, and other departments.
Performance & Cost Analysis
- Review route performance and transportation data.
- Investigate route discrepancies, excessive mileage, delays, and other variances.
- Identify opportunities to reduce transportation costs and improve utilization.
- Track operational information and communicate trends, concerns, and recommendations to management.
Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement
- Respond quickly when schedules or routes do not go as planned.
- Determine practical solutions that balance customer service, transportation costs, driver productivity, and operational needs.
- Identify recurring transportation problems and recommend process improvements.
- Take ownership of issues and follow them through to resolution.
The Experience We're Looking For
We are particularly interested in candidates with previous experience in one or more of the following:
- Transportation coordination
- Logistics coordination
- Dispatch
- Route planning or route optimization
- Fleet operations
- Driver scheduling
- Transportation operations
- Distribution or delivery operations
- Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
- Routing platforms such as Route4Me, Samsara, or similar software
Direct route-planning experience is strongly preferred.
What Will Make You Successful
The right person for this position will be:
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Comfortable working with numbers and operational data
- A strong problem solver who can make decisions when circumstances change
- Able to manage multiple drivers, routes, priorities, and deadlines at the same time
- Comfortable identifying discrepancies and investigating what caused them
- Confident communicating with drivers and management
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, including Excel
- Comfortable learning new transportation and operational systems
- Able to work independently and take ownership of responsibilities
Position Requirements
- Full-time, Monday–Friday
- 100% on-site at our Durham, NC location
- Candidates must be comfortable working in a fast-paced transportation environment.
- Candidates selected to move forward will be asked to complete a skills assessment as part of the interview process.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $54,000–$60,000 per year, based on experience
Benefits include:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- PTO and paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement plan
- 3.5% employer retirement match
About Green Zone Recycling
Green Zone Recycling is the largest textile recycler and wholesale distributor of secondhand apparel and footwear in the southeastern United States.
Our transportation operation plays an important role in serving our customers and keeping material moving efficiently throughout our network. We are looking for someone who can bring transportation knowledge, organization, accountability, and analytical thinking to the role.
Ready for Your Next Transportation Opportunity?
If you have experience coordinating routes, drivers, deliveries, dispatch, fleet operations, or transportation logistics and enjoy finding ways to make an operation more efficient, we would like to hear from you.
Apply today for our Transportation & Route Planning Coordinator position in Durham, NC.
