Job Details
Primary Purpose:
The Shipping and Warehouse Supervisor is responsible for managing tasks, setting schedules, anticipating setbacks, and meeting departmental targets.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervision of shipping and warehouse staff through communicating expectations, training, and monitoring employee performance and attendance to assure that quality and company standards are met
- Reads shipping notices, invoices, orders, and other documents to determine priorities and shipping methods
- Communicates shipping schedules and monitors all outgoing and incoming freights
- Inspects loading/unloading operations to assure compliance
- Directs the movement of goods from shipping points to storage and/or work areas and coordinates product movement with other departments as required
- Receives and resolves product returns, identifies product defects, and determines if returned merchandise should be repackaged or destroyed
- Maintains inventory and safe storage of all raw materials and finished goods located in their area of responsibility
- Carries out regular inventory reconciliation of supplied materials
- Knows, understands, communicates, and facilitates a safe work culture, ensuring compliance with all safety, environmental and company policies
- Provides shipping reports by compiling, initiating, sorting, and analyzing performance records and data
- Initiates and fosters a spirit of cooperation within and between factory departments
- Assumes responsibility for the operation of any department to which assigned because of the temporary absence of the Department or Warehouse/Shipping Supervisor
- Maintain complete and accurate knowledge of contractual obligations with the Union and conducts manufacturing operations with proper regard for Union relations and their impact on business
- Resolve personnel problems by investigating issues, identifying solutions, and recommending action
- Performs other related duties as required
Qualifications:Required- Forklift experience required
- Intermediate level of experience with productivity tools, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Independently motivated, with the ability to take on tasks and duties without immediate direction
- Ability to maintain daily workflow and deal with complex issues
- Ability to read and completely understand the current Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Collaborative mindset and work style
Education:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a business-related field and/or five to eight years of experience in a tobacco manufacturing environment
- High school diploma or equivalent qualification
Preferred- NetSuite, DSI and/or UKG experience
- Knowledge of FDA, OSHA, and other regulatory requirements
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)