Manufacturing Traffic Coordinator Position Summary The Traffic Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the efficient flow of materials, orders, and shipments through the warehouse. This role prioritizes shipments, coordinates with internal departments and transportation providers, and proactively resolves issues that may impact customer delivery schedules Essential Duties and Responsibilities Order & Shipment Expediting – 65%
- Monitor customer orders from release through shipment.
- Prioritize orders based on customer requirements and scheduled ship dates.
- Track order progress and identify potential delays.
- Coordinate urgent and expedited shipments.
- Ensure critical customer orders are processed and shipped on time.
- Scanning Bill of Landing
Warehouse Coordination- 20%
- Work closely with warehouse Supervisor to ensure timely picking, packing, and shipping activities.
- Verify inventory availability for scheduled shipments and assisting with cycle count.
- Coordinate movement of products within the warehouse to support shipping priorities.
- Assist with resolving inventory discrepancies affecting customer orders.
- Receiving raw materials, tools, and other supplies
- Support with relabeling boxes before shipment
Logistics Management- 15%
- Schedule and coordinate outbound freight with carriers and transportation providers.
- Monitor shipment status and provide updates to internal stakeholders.
- Review shipping documents for accuracy.
- Track delivery status.
Communication
- Act as a point of contact regarding shipment status and order fulfillment.
- Communicate priorities and schedule changes to warehouse team members.
- Notify customers of shipment changes, delays, and delivery updates.
Problem Resolution
- Investigate shipping issues, shortages, and delivery delays.
- Coordinate corrective actions with warehouse, transportation, and customer service teams.
- Escalate critical concerns to management when necessary.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in warehouse operations, logistics and shipping.
- Experience with ERP, or inventory management systems preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel and Outlook.
Required Skills
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Must have Microsoft Office knowledge and capabilities (Word, Excel)
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
- Understanding of warehouse operations, inventory control, and transportation processes.
- Combination of office and warehouse environment.
- Occasional lifting up to 50 pounds
About MRP:
MRP Solutions (MRP), a plastic cap manufacturer, is a leading provider of high-quality, injection molded plastic closures, jars and packaging components used every day by millions of consumers around the globe. But we offer more than just plastic caps and lids – we deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence. MRP Solutions combines extensive packaging expertise with a consultative approach to reliably uncover customer needs. By understanding your business goals, we can tailor smarter, safer, and more flexible packaging solutions that reduce cost and increase speed to market, helping your businesses capitalize on opportunity. By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner. We are passionate about partnering with distributors and manufacturers who understand that plastic caps and lids are a small but important part of how people experience their brands. Together, we deliver packaging with purpose.
Our Vision:
We deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer’s unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence. By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner. Our Values & Beliefs
- Integrity – We have the courage to act with the highest level of integrity, even when no one is watching. We do what is right 100% of the time.
- Value Creation – The sole reason a company exists is to create real long-term value for society. This starts with ensuring human safety, as value cannot be created without first protecting human life. We seek opportunities for mutual benefit with all of our stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and the communities in which we operate. In everything we do, our overarching goal is to deliver superior results..
- Accountability - We are accountable to each other and to our stakeholders. We say what we do and do what we say. We embrace a culture of ownership, empowering and equipping employees with the ability to own their outcomes.
- Entrepreneurial - Everyone thinks and acts like owners, employing good economic and critical thinking skills while adopting the risk profile of our shareholders. We are inquisitive, constantly seeking out opportunities to improve, actively searching for and innovating across each and every aspect of our business. We relentlessly strive to understand and profitably anticipate what our customers need and value, because if our customers do not grow, we do not grow.
- Respectful and Friendly – Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Because everyone's perspective has value, we embrace diversity of thought, background and experiences. We are friendly and lead with a smile. What we do is important, but how we do it is what makes it impactful.
- Change - We actively seek out and embrace change wherever profitable. Because society is constantly identifying and employing new and better ways of accomplishing tasks, we must constantly innovate, reinvent and, ultimately, destroy the old ways of doing business. We actively engage in rigorous debate and embrace challenge to ensure we stay relevant and deliver superior results.
- Fulfillment – Our employees are the foundation of our success. We foster an environment enabling our employees to learn, grow and accept more accountability as they demonstrate capability. We promote more than just individual connection as community at work brings people together through common interest, objectives or experiences.
MRP Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, medical condition, marital or protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, MRP Solutions will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs a reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources