Business and office
Truck dispatcher
$24.00 to $26.00 hourly
Pay is below the local median for this work ($31.75 an hour; Job Bank, 2024)
What the posting asks for
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Hours and terms
- Full time
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Completion of secondary school is required.
- Police and emergency dispatchers and other radio operators usually require provincial radio operator's certificates.
- Police and emergency dispatchers are required to complete formal on-the-job training. Other dispatchers usually undergo some informal on-the-job training.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Dispatchers (NOC 14404). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- Receive requests for emergency assistance or service and contact ambulances, police and fire departments, tow-trucks, and utility crews
- Process and transmit information and instructions to coordinate the activities of vehicle operators, crews and equipment using a variety of computer-aided communications and dispatching equipment
- Dispatch personnel according to written schedules and work orders, or as required by emergency situations
- Advise vehicle operators of route and traffic problems such as construction, accidents, congestion, weather conditions, weight and size restrictions and other information
- Operate radio equipment to communicate with ships, aircraft, mining crews, offshore oil rigs, logging camps and other remote operations
- Monitor personnel workloads and locations
About the employer
- Region: Cariboo Region
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From Job Bank.