Employment
Looking for a rewarding career with a growing company?
At Gulf Winds we are constantly striving to lead our industry with innovation and a passion for excellence in our work and our dedication to our customers. Since our start in 1996 we have grown from a warehousing company with one location to a logistics giant located in Houston and Dallas with five large divisions including:
- Container Drayage
- Warehousing
- Customs Exam Station
- Domestic Transportation
- Project Cargo
Want to learn more about how you can be part of the Gulf Winds team? See all of our career options and available positions below.
Join our Team as an Owner Operator!
We are looking for owner operators in Houston and Dallas for Local or Long Haul. Fill out a paper application and submit it to our Safety department at our Corporate Office.
Begin a Career with Gulf Winds today
We offer promising careers in the logistics/transportation industry for Accounting, Customer Service, Sales, Information Technology, Warehousing, Safety, and Maintenance.
For questions concerning a position, please email careers@gwii.com, or apply on line below.
Open Positions
Below is a listing of all our available positions. To apply for a position, please click Apply Now below with the name of the position you are applying for.
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Job Title: Warehouse Customer Service Representative
Department: Customer Service
Reports to: CSR Supervisor/ CES Manager
Location: GWI Brisbane Warehouse
411 Brisbane St, Houston, Texas 77061
Primary responsibility
Responsible for the timely, accurate, and efficient service to our customers. May handle one or more accounts, consistently handling the same account groupings to assure consistency. Requires strong problem solving skills, product knowledge, and superior communication ability.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Other duties may be assigned as deemed appropriate by management.
- Responsible for all communication with customers, Gulf Winds Dispatchers and Warehouse personnel to ensure customer orders are completed.
- Set up new clients and make changes required for existing clients in GWII systems
- Effectively communicate and schedule all pick up and delivery order information with over the road carriers on all transload and brokered moves
- Take all shipment requests from the customer such as pickup, delivery, document requests, and any other instructions
- Receives delivery orders and opens MR, weight certificates and sample orders as needed
- Notify transportation relevant pickup and/or delivery information
- Generate delivery order or bill of lading if applicable
- Maintain a current list of carrier contacts e.g. name, phone number, fax number and email
- Ensure all files are sent to the accounting department and billed
- Cross train with other Warehouse Customer Service Representatives
- Generate inventory reports to be sent out to customers at the 1st of each month
- Maintain a current rate sheet along with procedures for each client
- Communicate customer needs to warehouse supervisor
Skill Sets and Requirements:
- Strong Communication Skills
- Problem Resolution Skills
- Computer Literacy
- Organizational Aptitude
- Account Knowledge
- Typing speed of 40+ wpm
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office programs
- Attention to detail
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Job Title: Market Data Analyst
Department: Sales
Reports to: Sales Manager
Location: GWI Brisbane Warehouse
411 Brisbane St, Houston, Texas 77061
Primary responsibility
Responsible for supporting sales staff in data market analyst to drive departmental efficiencies and goals
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Other duties may be assigned as deemed appropriate by management.
- Responsible for overall system maintenance and internal requests.
- Identify new business development opportunities by analyzing market trends, trade statistics, and inbound leads.
- Cultivate leads through research and analysis for distribution to sales
- Use established KPI’s to measure performance of group through Salesforce program (CRM)
- Responsible for group reporting to management
- Complete bids packages as necessary for sales staff
Skill Sets and Requirements:
- Strong Communication Skills
- Highly Analytical
- Problem Resolution Skills
- Computer Literacy
- Organizational Aptitude
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Job Title: Logistics Coordinator
Department: Brokerage
Reports to: Sales\Brokerage Manager
Location: GWI Barbours Cut Warehouse
1000 Baroburs Cut Blvd, LaPorte, Texas 77571
Primary responsibility
The Logistics Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating daily operations within the Brokerage department. This position places a high emphasis on locating and moving dry freight between destinations in the United States, negotiating rates paid to the carrier, tendering load information and managing both carrier and driver services. The purpose of this role is to build and maintain a network of partner carriers in order to obtain the lowest cost and highest performance in the most efficient way possible.
In order to best direct and supervise freight in transit being hauled by outside carriers, the successful candidate must be able to multi-task in a fast paced environment, be self-motivated and possess a positive attitude, especially when resolving customer service issues. The importance of communicating with shippers, carriers and dispatchers to manage pick-up and delivery schedules also requires that the Logistics Coordinator exhibit strong negotiating skills and working industry knowledge of freight capacity, rates, lane coverage, etc. Providing superior customer service is a top priority at Gulf Winds and the working relationships with transportation providers that you develop will drive your success
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Other duties may be assigned as deemed appropriate by management.
- Manage shipper and carrier relationships
- Negotiate rates
- Source and qualify carriers
- Generate carrier and customer business leads
- Track load status cycle through delivery
Skill Sets and Requirements:
- Minimum of 2 years in freight brokerage operations.
- Ability to manage people as service offering grows
- Desires a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Competitive and driven to succeed
- High initiative and high energy
- Impeccable follow-through and commitment to quality customer service
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Independent thinking and problem-solving skills
- Computer literate
- Specific experience in posting loads
- Bi-Lingual language skills a plus
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Job Title: Web Developer
Department: Information Technology
Reports to: Development Manager
Location: 411 Brisbane, Houston TX 77061
Gulf Winds is a leading provider of logistics support, inter-modal transportation, contract warehousing, and customs services for international shippers. They have developed a proprietary web presence that allows their customers to track their shipments from the time the container leaves the factory until delivery at the customer’s warehouse regardless of where the container is located (steamship, rail, truck, dock, or warehouse).
Gulf Winds is aggressively expanding the capabilities of their systems to better support the needs of their customers. This expansion gives rise to the need for additional web developers.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Maintain, enhance, support, and develop existing web applications and software solutions for company use
- Perform advanced testing and debugging to identify problems in existing and new systems
- Work with business units to analyze and gather requirements for functional enhancements
Technical Requirements:
Other duties may be assigned as deemed appropriate by management.
Candidate needs thorough understanding of all phases of application development processes, website development, Perl, MySQL, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Work in C, Apache, and Linux is beneficial. College degree or equivalent experience is required.
Personal Attributes:
The successful candidate will be able to exhibit the traits that convince Gulf Winds management that they can perform the technical work as well as grow to assist the user community in developing answers. The desired candidate will be able to assist the users in developing solutions rather than “asking” the users to tell them what needs to be developed.
Candidate needs to be self-directing and able operate independently. Opportunity to work from home 2-3 days per week.
Skill Sets and Requirements:
- Perl
- MySQL
- JavaScript
- CSS
- HTML
Desired Skills/Experience:
- Mobile Device Development
- jQuery
- Linux/MySQL/Apache Administration
