Transportation Planner

Ashley Furniture Industries
Mesquite, TX
Drive Freight Efficiency as a Carrier Capacity Planner.

Schedule: Monday-Friday (Day Shift)

Are you a transportation professional with a passion for freight planning and network optimization? As a Transportation Planner, you’ll be a key player in our logistics operations, responsible for managing freight flows, trailer assets, and carrier capacity across a defined region. Your decisions will directly impact service levels, cost control, and operational efficiency.

What You’ll Do

Plan Freight Movements:

Coordinate inbound and outbound freight within a 24–72 hour window, ensuring optimal trailer utilization and on-time delivery across our transportation network.

Manage Trailer Pools

Monitor and adjust trailer pool allocations to reduce idle assets and improve turn times at customer locations.

Optimize Capacity & Routing

Analyze lane-level data to match freight demand with available carrier capacity, making strategic decisions to accept, decline, or reroute freight based on cost, service, and network impact.

Collaborate Across Teams

Partner with Customer Service, Sales, and Area Managers to align freight volumes with network commitments and develop proactive solutions for capacity constraints.

Support Real-Time Freight Decisions

Respond to dynamic freight needs by securing additional capacity, adjusting schedules, and leveraging transportation management systems (TMS) to maintain service and profitability.

Ensure Data Accuracy

Maintain precise records in TMS, validate billing details, and ensure all freight planning data is entered correctly for operational transparency.

Why This Role Matters

Transportation Planners are critical to balancing freight demand, trailer assets, and carrier capacity. Your expertise will help us deliver consistent service, reduce costs, and maintain a high-performing transportation network.

What You’ll Need

  • Transportation Experience: Background in freight planning, carrier coordination, or transportation operations. Experience with trailer pool management or TMS platforms is a plus.
  • Analytical Thinking: Ability to interpret freight data, lane performance, and cost metrics to make fast, informed decisions.
  • Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written skills to collaborate with internal teams and external partners.
  • Problem-Solving: Resourceful and proactive in resolving freight challenges and capacity issues.
  • Tech Proficiency: Familiarity with transportation management systems (TMS), load planning tools, and Microsoft Office Suite.

Who We Are

At Ashley, we’re more than a business…we’re family. As the largest manufacturer of home furnishings in the world, we know what it takes to build incredible furniture and future leaders. We’re problem solvers with the grit to persevere during challenging times and innovators who won't coast when times are good. We create solutions, not excuses. And never settle for the status quo. It’s the reason we’re always searching for better ways to deliver an exceptional customer experience. That's why Ashley Furniture is #1 in our industry.

Ready to grow? You’ve come to the right place. Ashley Furniture has a “Growth Mindset”, and once you join our team, you’ll learn from the best in the business.

Apply today and find your home at Ashley!

Benefits We Offer

Health, Dental, Vision, and Employee Assistance Program

Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Your Birthday off

Generous Employee Discount on home furnishings

Professional Development Opportunities

Ashley Wellness Centers (location specific) and Medical Tourism

Telehealth

401(k) and Profit Sharing

Life Insurance

Our Core Values

Honesty & Integrity

  • Without hesitation, uses candor and is direct in communication
  • Is tough-minded in working in and meeting the demands of reality
  • Always tells the truth and follows through on commitments

Passion, Drive, Discipline

  • Enjoys working hard and pursues work with energy, drive and willpower to finish
  • Is disciplined in developing consistency into work processes
  • Is focused and relentless in achieving goals

Continuous Improvement/Operational Excellence

  • Fights to take costs and waste out of the system
  • Seeks to understand "why" something works the way it does, and through study and improvement determines how to better all processes and systems
  • Strives for more in all areas of work by developing measurements, setting goals and then working on ways to exceed goals through problem solving methods that look beyond the obvious

Dirty Fingernail

  • Does not rely on reports to run the business, but rather goes to the work that is being done and sees if the work is being done right for him/herself
  • Has an insatiable curiosity and takes a "Go and See" approach to understand the current state of the business and the competitive realities
  • Takes a hands-on approach to tackle problems and demonstrates critical thinking through use of effective questioning…asking the 5 "Whys"

Growth Focused

  • Understands the customer’s needs and wants, then challenges current ways of doing business that inhibits growth and organizes work to meet those needs
  • Is competitive by studying the competition and is aggressive in looking for ways to beat them
  • Strives to be the BEST by improving quality of processes, reducing costs, doing more business, being profitable, and growing the business

To learn more about Ashley Furniture, our community engagement programs, environmental stewardship, and our core values, please visit our Corporate Social Responsibility information page :Corporate Social Responsibility
Posted 2026-01-30

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