Dispatcher Job at Colas, Rapid City, SD

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  • Colas
  • Rapid City, SD

Job Description

SIMON | Dispatcher

Company: SIMON NORTH

Location: Rapid City

Country: USA

Type of Contract: Seasonal

Publication Date: Oct 30, 2025

Simon is a subsidiary of Colas USA with operations throughout Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. We specialize in aggregate, asphalt, and ready-mix concrete materials production, with expert teams providing high-quality asphalt paving, concrete, bridge, and utility construction services. Through strong local ties backed by global resources, we focus on quality and value to deliver the best products and services for our clients. What we do is bigger than construction - it is about connecting communities, building new roads to the future, and keeping the spirit of the pioneers alive and well. To learn more about Simon visit

The Colas USA Family of Companies provides competitive pay, outstanding benefits, career advancement opportunities, professional education, and extensive training for every employee. We pride ourselves on upholding the highest standards of safety, environmental conservation, and ethical conduct as we strive to grow our infrastructure products and services through empowering and developing our people, fostering innovation, utilizing new technology, and maximizing vertical integration at all levels of the company's value chain. To learn more about the Colas USA Family of Companies, please visit

Job Summary:

Responsible for scheduling and coordination of transportation to deliver aggregate, paving, and equipment supplies. Coordinates trucking operations by working closely with internal/external customers, sales, and operations personnel.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Embrace the Company's safety culture, actively support all safety initiatives, and adhere to defined accountabilities implemented by the Safety Steering and Continuous Improvement teams

  • Support, promote, and practice the Company's core values, vision, and mission; follow code of ethics, workplace conduct, safety, and other established policies

  • Plan and coordinate trucking dispatch and scheduling while targeting utilization efficiency and profitability

  • Maintain regular communications with drivers and customers to ensure delivery deadlines are met

  • Plan and coordinate required repair and preventative maintenance on trucking equipment

  • Collaborate with other employees, internal/external customers/suppliers, and local/state/federal representatives

  • Relay work orders, messages, or information to work crews, supervisors, or field inspectors using cell phone or two-way radios

  • Conduct routine safety inspections/observations at job sites

  • Manage and maintain trucking revenue spreadsheet; submit pro-rate sheets and timecards

  • Create GeoZones and shifts in FleetWatcher software to supervise job progress and efficiency

  • Formulate oversize and overweight permits to meet DOT guidelines; ensure loads are meeting height and width requirements as well as route verification

Education:

  • High school diploma or equivalent experience preferred

  • Class A CDL with endorsements and valid medical card preferred

Skills:

  • 1-3 years of practical experience as a Trucking Foreman, Dispatcher, or similar environment

  • Self-directed and highly motivated requiring minimal direct guidance

  • Ability to interact professionally with diverse groups of people

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a changing environment with frequent deadlines.

  • Basic digital literacy using MS Office and similar programs; experience using dispatching programs a plus

Physical Requirements:

  • Wears and maintains personal protective equipment (PPE) as required

  • Occasionally required to lift and /or move up to 50 pounds with or without assistance

  • Required to work from a seated position for extended periods using a computer in an office environment

  • Required to safely operate various vehicles and equipment related to requirements of the role

  • Regularly required to use hands to feel, handle and manipulate objects, write, use a keyboard and/or mobile device

  • Regularly required to communicate (talk and hear), and perform tasks requiring visual acuity

  • Regularly required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

  • Regularly required to stand and walk across uneven terrain

  • Regularly exposed to all outdoor weather conditions, dust, and airborne particles; exposure to high temperatures

  • Regularly exposed to fuel, oil, and other chemicals

Colas Inc. and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For details on the specifics of this commitment, please click here to view the EEO document ( . If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to:

  • to meet the requirements of the role in which you are applying

  • complete any part of the application process

  • access or use the online application process and need an alternative method for applying

Please contact Colas Inc. at 973-290-9082 or send an email to ColasRecruiter@colasinc.com .

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