Routing Specialist
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Job overview
Robert Half is recruiting a Routing Specialist for a freight forwarder in South Gate, California. The role is temp-to-hire and involves routing and scheduling shipments, coordinating with transportation partners and customers, monitoring shipment status, maintaining records, and supporting dispatch and logistics operations. The ideal background includes logistics or related experience, attention to detail, organization, comfort with Excel, reliability, punctuality, and teamwork.
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Full job description
Description
We are currently recruiting for an exciting Routing Specialist opportunity with freight forwarder in South Gate, CA. This is a temp-to-hire position with strong long-term potential for the right candidate. Looking to schedule interviews today or early next week ONSITE
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Route and schedule shipments efficiently to meet customer deadlines
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Coordinate with drivers, carriers, warehouses, and customers
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Monitor shipment status and resolve routing issues proactively
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Maintain accurate shipment records and transportation data in Excel and company systems
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Process routing requests and update delivery schedules
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Communicate transportation changes, delays, and service issues
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Analyze routing information and identify opportunities for improved efficiency
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Support dispatch and logistics teams with daily operational tasks
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Ensure compliance with company and customer transportation requirements
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Provide exceptional customer service while managing multiple priorities
Ideal Background:
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Logistics, transportation, supply chain, dispatch, routing, or customer service experience
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Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
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Comfortable working with Excel spreadsheets and transportation data
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Reliable, punctual, and team-oriented
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
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Route and schedule shipments efficiently to meet customer deadlines
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Coordinate with drivers, carriers, warehouses, and customers
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Monitor shipment status and resolve routing issues proactively
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Maintain accurate shipment records and transportation data in Excel and company systems
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Process routing requests and update delivery schedules
-
Communicate transportation changes, delays, and service issues
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Analyze routing information and identify opportunities for improved efficiency
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Support dispatch and logistics teams with daily operational tasks
-
Ensure compliance with company and customer transportation requirements
-
Provide exceptional customer service while managing multiple priorities
Ideal Background:
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Logistics, transportation, supply chain, dispatch, routing, or customer service experience
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Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
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Comfortable working with Excel spreadsheets and transportation data
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Reliable, punctual, and team-oriented
TalentMatch®
Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.
Robert Half works to put you in the best position to succeed. We provide access to top jobs, competitive compensation and benefits, and free online training. Stay on top of every opportunity - whenever you choose - even on the go. Download the Robert Half app (https://www.roberthalf.com/us/en/mobile-app) and get 1-tap apply, notifications of AI-matched jobs, and much more.
Robert Half will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,845 open Logistics jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$86–131K/yr142 salary ranges
- California median$21–26/hr91 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 274 open Logistics jobs in California and 2,845 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril29 open
- Northrop Grumman13 open
- AutoZone, Inc.12 open
- Experience
- Logistics postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (1,671 postings).
- Education
- 622 of the 2,845 open Logistics jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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