Distribution centre dispatcher

Code 9333.2

Distribution centre dispatchers ensure efficient shipping of manufactured goods. They stipulate routes and complete shipping documents.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • health and safety measures in transportation

Skills and competences

  • load bulk trucks
  • load products for dispatch
  • communicate problems to senior colleagues
  • liaise with transportation companies
  • avoid backlogs in receiving raw materials
  • ensure public safety and security
  • lift heavy weights
  • plan the dispatching of products
  • implement efficiency plans for logistics operations
  • dispatch order processing
  • oversee shipment routing
  • handle bulk transfer of raw material

Transversal competences

  • determine itineraries of bulk trucks
  • mitigate waste of resources
  • plan transport operations

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences