Shipping Supervisor (Manufacturing)

Responsibilities/Duties/Tasks

• Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, warehousing, and shipping products or materials.
• Provide training to staff.
• Maintain budget within operating parameters.
• Implement shipping and warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
• Partner with customer service to ensure shipping instructions, routing information and delivery times and locations are accurate.
• Schedule and monitor pickup and/or delivery of products and materials.
• Confer with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as all production departments, sales, purchasing, customer service
• Maintain accurate inventory records; WIP, finished goods and outside services.
• Perform routine cycle counts.
• Review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, and demand forecasts to estimate peak delivery periods and issue work assignments.
• Review production schedules and demand forecasts to estimate and order packaging and other supplies
• Review production schedules and confer with all production departments to coordinate production delivery through various vendors
• Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, and equipment, and order testing, maintenance, repair, or replacement as necessary.
• Responsible for knowing and following all environmental, health and safety rules, policies, and procedures for work area and takes responsibility to assure that personal work activity is conducted in such a way so as to not affect the safety of themselves or others.
• Engage in continuous improvement through lean activities.
• Promote and embrace customer satisfaction as it relates to on-time delivery, productivity, quality and customer satisfaction.
• All other duties as assigned.

Competencies
Continuous Learning ~ Definition: Is committed to developing professionally, attends professional conferences, focuses on best practices, takes advantage of a variety of learning activities, and introduces newly gained knowledge and skills on the job. Completes assigned company training in a timely manner, and takes responsibility to progress through established training plans.

• Adaptability & Flexibility_ ~ _Definition: Changes behavioral style or method of approach when necessary to achieve a goal; adjusts style as appropriate to the needs of the situation. Responds to change with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn new ways to accomplish work activities. Recognizes and responds to unanticipated events and requirements. Willing to do what is necessary to get the desired results.
• Technical/ Professional Expertise (including use of technology)~ Definition: Possesses, acquires, and maintains the technical/professional expertise required to do the job effectively and to create solutions. Applies and improves extensive or in-depth specialized knowledge, skills, and judgment to accomplish a result or to serve one's "customers" effectively.
• Decision Making Skills~ Definition: Makes decisions authoritatively and wisely, after adequately contemplating various available courses of action. Is aware that personal prejudices, biases, and experiences can have an impact on making decisions; guards against allowing these factors to influence decisions.
• Team Leadership (includes conflict management, motivation, people leadership) ~ Definition: Ability to develop high-performing teams by quickly establishing a spirit of cooperation and cohesion for achieving goals.
• Planning & Organization~ Definition: Effectively managing one's time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently. Ensures that regular, consistent communication takes place within area of responsibility.
• Advanced Communication Skills (verbal, written, listening, presentation)~ Definition: Advanced ability to read, write and comprehend verbal instructions in English including safety, work instruction, LMS training, etc. Advanced ability to verbally communicate in English.
• Workforce management (resources, scheduling, staffing) ~ Definition: Focuses and guides others in accomplishing work objectives; communicates a vision and inspires motivation, engages with others in a team process to solve problems, helps the team stay focused on major goals while managing multiple directives.

Core Competencies
Safety Oriented ~ Definition: Performs jobs in a manner that minimizes hazards to self, others, and the environment. Maintains a physical work environment that contributes to the well-being of others. Being aware of conditions or circumstances that affect one's own safety or the safety of others.

• Quality Oriented ~ Definition: Produces results or provides service that meets or exceeds set standards. Monitors and checks work to meet quality standards; demonstrates a high level of care and thoroughness; checks work to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Integrity ~ Definition: Demonstrates responsibility for the image of TCDC.
• Productivity Focused ~ Definition: Makes effective use of all equipment and tools available to maintain high productive output without sacrificing quality
• Customer Focused ~ Definition: Builds and maintains internal and external customer satisfaction with the products and services offered by the organization.
• Accountability ~ Definition: Sets high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
• Continuous Improvement ~ Definition: Continuously looks for opportunities to refine and improve process, systems, products, etc.

Physical Demands Frequency: Continuous 67-100%, Frequent 34-66%, Occasional 1-33%

STRENGTH

MOTION

REPETITION

OTHER

• Occasional lifting and carrying of 50 lbs.
• Frequent lifting and carrying of 21 to 49 pounds
• Continuous lifting and carrying of 1 to 20 pounds
• Continuous standing
• Frequent sitting
• Continuous walking
• Continuous pull and pushing
• Continuous twisting and bending
• Continuous reach(overhead and out-stretched)
• Continuous kneeling, climbing, crawling, bending and stooping
• Frequent repetitive motion
• Continuous use of vibratory tools
• Continuous grip, torque and fine manipulation
• Continuous handling/grasping
• Continuous exposure to hot and cold temperature extremes
• Functional vision
• Ability to discern colors
• PPE Required
• Occasional Driving
• Continuous Talking
• Continuous Hearing

For the purpose of compliance with ADA and Workers Compensation reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essentials.

Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is continuously exposed to moving mechanical parts; extreme heat and vibration.
• The employee is continuously exposed to wet and/or humid conditions.
• The employee is continuously exposed to fume or airborne particles.
• The noise level in the work environment is frequently very loud.

Education and Experience

• Requires training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.

At TCDC, the health and safety of our employee owners is our #1 priority.  We are proud to be a drug-free workplace.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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