Logistics - Tech Lead - A Shift

Dräxlmaier Industrial Solutions•Duncan, OK

About The Position

The Logistics - Tech Lead provides technical leadership, guidance, and instruction to operational employees in an assigned area, working in coordination with the disciplinary manager. The role supports logistics operations by maintaining the flow and accurate system tracking of raw materials, finished goods, and other materials, while helping ensure customer requirements and internal business targets are met. The Tech Lead also supports the logistics supervisor with daily planning, employee coordination, safety, housekeeping, training, and operational problem-solving. The position includes coordinating container loading and unloading, checking packaging and transport documentation, determining transport sequences, handling shipping and customs paperwork, processing rush requests, and entering logistics data into materials management systems. It also involves organizing warehouse inventory control, receiving and issuing materials, monitoring and coaching material handlers, coordinating personnel and industrial trucks, and serving as a contact for operational employees and relevant interfaces. The Tech Lead maintains accurate inventory and timely material movements in the HOST system, supports inventory audits and cycle counts, coordinates with Quality when parts require retesting, and helps investigate and communicate disruptions. The role also supports compliance with work instructions, company policies, 6S practices, safety and environmental requirements, and contributes to shift handovers, logbooks, and training documentation. Other assigned duties and activities under L-03-10 may also be required.

Requirements

Working knowledge of receiving, high-bay, and shipping processes.
Extensive knowledge of HOST.
Ability to follow work instructions, guidelines, and company policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

Plan and ensure container loading and unloading are performed according to guidelines.
Check whether packaging is suitable for transport and take action as required.
Determine transport sequences for multiple orders.
Issue shipping and customs papers and cancel transport orders.
Handle rush requests and relay information about additional demand.
Enter data such as packing slips into predefined materials management system screens.
Assemble, forward, and check transported-goods documentation, including accompanying papers, packing slips, and hazardous-materials documentation; take action when needed.
Organize warehouse inventory control and management according to guidelines, including inventory levels, movements, and quantities used.
Conduct or arrange the receipt, booking in and out, and commissioning of materials.
Monitor, assist, coach, and motivate logistics material handlers in the assigned area.
Support the logistics supervisor in ensuring material flow meets customer requirements and internal business targets.
Coordinate employees, including personnel deployment planning, and coordinate industrial trucks.
Serve as a contact person for operational employees and relevant interfaces.
Provide recommendations to logistics supervisors regarding disciplinary actions, associate development and cross-training, time off/PTO, and schedule changes to support daily production quotas.
Support company policies and procedures and ensure they are followed.
Support the logistics supervisor in carrying out the DUN management daily plan for delivery of parts, raw materials, finished goods, and packaged goods, following work instructions and supervisors’ directions.
Assist the Logistics Specialist with inventory audits and cycle counts.
Maintain accurate inventories of raw materials and finished goods in the HOST system.
Identify causes of disruptions, create or relay malfunction descriptions, and initiate measures, including resolving difficult disruptions where required.
Ensure team members’ raw-material and finished-goods movements are recorded correctly and promptly in HOST.
Coordinate with the Quality department when parts need retesting, ensure parts arrive at Quality, and ensure system changes are made.
Assist the logistics supervisor in monitoring housekeeping under 6S practices, safety, environmental conditions, and emergency situations.
Perform shift handovers and maintain a shift logbook when necessary.
Maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers.
Ensure work procedures are followed according to instructions.
Maintain training documents, such as the qualification matrix, in coordination with disciplinary superiors.
Participate in applicable company programs and activities, including Quality, Ideas for Improvement, Training, Human Resources, Security, and Environmental Health and Safety.
Perform other duties as assigned.