Job Summary
The Logistics Supervisor is responsible for overseeing the safe, accurate, and timely flow of materials for the genset enclosure lines. This position supervises receiving, warehousing, material staging, internal material movement, inventory handling, and outbound shipping activities.
The Logistics Supervisor leads warehouse and material-handling employees and works closely with Production, Planning, Purchasing, Quality, and Engineering to ensure materials are available where and when they are needed to support the production schedule.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
· Lead daily receiving, warehouse, material-handling, staging, and shipping activities.
· Establish daily work priorities based on production schedules, material requirements, and shipping needs.
· Coordinate material flow between receiving, storage, assembly, testing, and shipping areas.
· Ensure materials are accurately received, identified, stored, staged, and transacted in the ERP system.
· Support production by ensuring job-specific materials are staged and available when required.
· Identify and escalate material shortages, inventory discrepancies, staging constraints, and other issues that could impact production.
· Coordinate the safe movement and storage of large, heavy, oversized, and high-value components using appropriate material-handling equipment.
· Maintain organized warehouse, receiving, staging, and material-storage areas.
· Oversee outbound shipments, including packaging, loading, documentation, carrier coordination, and resolution of shipping issues.
· Maintain accurate inventory and support cycle counts, physical inventories, and inventory audits.
· Investigate inventory and material discrepancies and coordinate corrective actions with appropriate functions.
· Supervise, train, schedule, and provide direction to warehouse and material-handling employees.
· Promote a culture of safety, accuracy, teamwork, urgency, and accountability.
· Develop and maintain standard work and procedures for warehouse, material-handling, receiving, and shipping activities.
· Identify and implement opportunities to improve material flow, inventory accuracy, productivity, and space utilization.
· Ensure compliance with company safety requirements for forklifts, cranes, hoists, loading activities, and other material-handling operations.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
· Strong knowledge of warehouse, receiving, shipping, material-handling, and inventory-control processes.
· Experience supporting material flow in a manufacturing environment.
· Ability to read and interpret purchase orders, packing lists, bills of lading, work orders, job travelers, and production schedules.
· Working knowledge of ERP systems and inventory transactions.
· Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage changing production priorities.
· Strong leadership and communication skills.
· Ability to coordinate effectively with Production, Planning, Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, and transportation providers.
· Ability to investigate material and inventory discrepancies and drive issues to resolution.
· Forklift certification or ability to obtain certification.
· Experience with cranes, hoists, oversized material, large fabricated assemblies, or specialized freight preferred.
· Experience in heavy manufacturing or an engineer-to-order manufacturing environment preferred.
Education and Experience
· High school diploma or equivalent required.
· Associate degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Business, or a related field preferred.
· 5+ years of experience in warehousing, shipping/receiving, material handling, logistics, or manufacturing.
· Previous team-lead or supervisory experience preferred
Position Demands
Physical Demands (essential functions)
· Climbing, Bending, Lifting, Pulling and Pushing.
· Ability to handle lifting large equipment
· Ability to lift 35 lbs
Work Environment
· Manufacturing facility
· Outside weather conditions associated with precipitation of temperature
Work Hazards
· Electrical Hazards including following Lockout / Tagout processes
· Overhead equipment and crane operation
· Working from elevated platforms and lifts – utilization of fall arrest equipment
· Fork lifts and material handling equipment
· General hand tools and construction equipment
· Lifting of heavy equipment – must have the ability to lift 35 lbs
· Exterior weather conditions