NATHANIEL LAWSON
Modesto,CA
Summary
My work history shows I am dedicated to the company I work with. I take pride in my longevity between Bay Area Beverage and Sysco. I care about the success of the company and those I work with. I enjoy training and developing new employees and employees also looking to improve themselves.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Transportation Manager
Sysco Central Ca
01.2022 - Current
- Managing driver schedule including forecasting, vacations and daily adjustments
- Manage D.O.T
- Hours and overtime
- Run weekly meeting including: Shrink, Routing, Transportation, staffing, etc
- Back up router, cover routing when sick calls or vacation
- Interviewing hiring and training new drivers and supervisors
- Managing 8 supervisors, each have 12-15 drivers under them
- Covering Director of Transportation reports/metrics when position is on vacation or working at another site
- Involved in Gemba walks and work with safety on programs working hand in hand with safety.
Safety Specialist
Sysco SF
07.2021 - 01.2023
- Duties include: Reporting out Origami by department
- Have done recognition recognizing those that are completing all items as well as pushing Director/Managers in getting those not completing up to par
- Have created Huddle folders for departments to assist in successful and topical huddle subjects
- Have created tracking for both Origami (who has been observed in what areas vs what's due) and Accident/Injury (what were the incidents and what are the trends)
- Have been leading Safety BLITZ'
- Started doing Safety BLITZ' for night crew
- Added in some gift cards to give out when doing these to promote safety and recognition for good/safe behaviors.
Transportation Supervisor
Sysco SF
01.2016 - 01.2022
- Duties include: Managing 30-35 drivers, monitoring their routes, working with them, evaluating, discipline, develop, managing their payroll
- Handling customer complaints and issues
- Conducting site visits for new accounts or accounts needing updated information
- Smith Certified trainer and recently went to a Sysco Safety Bootcamp in Riverside
- Took the lead on projects and pushing A.M
- Times with drivers in the morning
- Have also created Powerpoints for different areas including: safe driving, general rules, holiday safety, GHR reminders and introduction to new drivers.
Delivery Manager
Bay Area Beverage
05.2006 - 12.2015
- Duties include: Management of 3 field supervisors, 1 dispatcher/router, 40-45 commercial drivers
- Bi-weekly payroll of 3 field supervisors, 1 dispatcher/router, 40-45 commercial drivers
- Annual reviews of 3 field supervisors, 1 dispatcher/router, 40-45 commercial drivers
- Hiring, training, and developing employees
- Maintaining D.O.T
- Driver files, have passed 7/7 D.O.T
- Inspections
- Rerouting daily delivery routes - including assigning new routes, changing customer's delivery days and reviewing service standards to reduce mileage and increase productivity
- Review truck leases and repair billing
- Set daily schedule for drivers
- Review previous day's deliveries tracking driver's productivity and returned deliveries
- Bi-weekly safety/performance meetings with both drivers and management staff
- Assist drivers with deliveries
- Assist and work with sales dealing with customer and delivery issues
- Cover opening shift, dispatching drivers, closing shift or routing when staff is on vacation
- Train dispatcher(s)/router(s)
- Designing and implementing a driver training program training merchandisers to get a commercial license and promote into the delivery department
- Assist with checking in drivers returning to the warehouse, verifying inventory
- Visiting accounts to check on customer service and/or customer complaints
- Annual recognition rewards for employees based on performance, attendance, and safety
- Involved in acquisitions of 3 other beverage companies, the last acquiring Corona I was responsible for the transportation portion planning amount of trucks, truck types, trailers, equipment needs, new headcount, planned production numbers and new wages.
Delivery Supervisor
Bay Area Beverage
07.1998 - 05.2006
- Duties include: Field support of 36 routes daily
- Assisting with deliveries and training drivers
- Visiting accounts to check on customer service, driver rotation and handling customer complaints
- Back up router when router was on vacation
- Delivered routes when drivers called in sick.
Delivery Driver
Bay Area Beverage
07.1996 - 07.1998
- Delivered an On-premise route from San Leandro to Fremont
- Averaging 25-30 stops daily
- Responsible for ensuring customers got correct product and product was rotated.
Education
High School Diploma -
San Leandro High School
San Leandro, CA06.1996
Skills
- Mentoring and training
- Performance maximization
- Continuous Improvement
- Quality Control
- Customer Relationship Management
- Logistics Data Analysis
- Transportation Management
- Workload Management
- Safety regulations implementation
- Data Interpretation
- Loading and unloading
- Decision-Making
- Daily Operations Management
Timeline
Transportation Manager
Sysco Central Ca
01.2022 - Current
Safety Specialist
Sysco SF
07.2021 - 01.2023
Transportation Supervisor
Sysco SF
01.2016 - 01.2022
Delivery Manager
Bay Area Beverage
05.2006 - 12.2015
Delivery Supervisor
Bay Area Beverage
07.1998 - 05.2006
Delivery Driver
Bay Area Beverage
07.1996 - 07.1998
High School Diploma -
San Leandro High School