Transportation Manager

Gate Gourmet

$85K — $95K *
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School degree or GED required; some college preferred.
  • 3-5 years of supervisory/management experience necessary.
  • Experience in scheduling and labor forecasting preferred.
  • In-flight catering or high-volume food service experience is highly desirable.
  • Strong leadership skills with experience managing a team of 20-30 individuals.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinates kitchen and driver services, managing dock activities.
  • Creates team assignments for drivers and specific flights.
  • Ensures timely truck departures by checking equipment availability.
  • Develops labor forecasts for effective resource allocation.
  • Oversees correct aircraft and flight catering by all teams.
  • Enforces compliance with safety procedures among employees.
  • Assists teams with handling late flights and equipment changes.

Benefits

  • Paid time off for vacation and personal use.
  • 401k plan with company matching contributions.
  • Company-sponsored life insurance for peace of mind.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Options for voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurance.
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Program for support.
  • Commuter benefits to ease travel costs.
  • Employee discounts as a perk of employment.
  • Free hot and healthy meals for on-site workers.
Full Job Description
The position is responsible for maintaining production standards to meet customer’s requirements, which duties include scheduling, communication, productivity, labor controls and efficiency standards. Must ensure quality and customer service is maintained at the highest level on a daily basis.

Annual Hiring Range:

  • $ 85,000 – 95,000

Benefits

  • Paid time off

  • 401k, with company match

  • Company sponsored life insurance

  • Medical, dental, vision plans

  • Voluntary short-term/long-term disability insurance

  • Voluntary life, accident, and hospital plans

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Commuter benefits

  • Employee Discounts

  • Free hot healthy meals for unit operations roles

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Coordinates services between the kitchen and drivers, while controlling activities on the receiving dock

  • Creates assignments for team drivers and assignments to flights

  • Checks dock area to ensure employees have all required equipment and that trucks leave according to schedule dock departure

  • Creates labor forecasts

  • Ensures all teams are catering correct aircraft and flights

  • Ensures employees are in compliance with safety procedures

  • Assists teams with late flights and equipment changes

  • Responsible for getting information from other airlines for service

  • Maintains radio contact with superintendent, meal planner and leads during operation.

Education:

  • High School degree or GED

  • Some college preferred. 

Work Experience:

  • Must have 3-5 years of supervisory/management experience

  • Experience with scheduling and forecasting labor preferred

  • In-flight catering experience or experience in a high-volume food service industry highly desirable

  • Must have strong and effective leadership skills and have successfully managed a staff of 20-30

  • Current or previous labor relations experience is a plus.

Job Skills:

  • Ability to handle multiple tasks without losing priority

  • Candidate should be comfortable with all levels of employees and have the ability to drive positive program change

  • Must be innovative in making changes to the operation as needed to further improve the work environment and unit performance

  • Basic computer skills required

  • Possess strong organizational, analytical, communication and leadership.

Communication Skills:

  • Bi-lingual a plus

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations:

  • Valid Drivers License

Travel:

  • Up to 10%

Environmental Requirements:

  • Regularly stands, walks, bends, lifts, and moves intermittently during shifts of 10+ hour

  • In a normal production kitchen facility there may be physical discomfort due to temperature and noise

  • Ability to lift, push, pull or maneuver 50-75 lbs

  • Ability to work outdoors 75-80% of the time

  • Ability to work at heights at or above 50 feet.


Demonstrated Competencies to be Successful in the Position:

  • Thinking - Information search and analysis, problem resolution skills

  • Engaging - understanding others, team leadership, developing people

  • Inspiring - influencing and building relationships, motivating and inspiring, communicating effectively

  • Achieving - delivering business results under pressure, championing performance improvement, customer focus

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position.  They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required.  Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary.  In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Keywords: Transportation Manager, fleet management, logistics manager, Transportation Supervisor, Transportation, Fleet Manager, Operations Manager, Airport Operations Manager

We anticipate that this job will close on:

06/19/2026

If you want to be part of a team that helps make travel and culinary memories, join us!

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