Logistics Warehouse Group Leader

Metalsa•Elizabethtown, KY

About The Position

Lead and develop the Logistics Team to ensure shipping and receiving activities are performed efficiently and meet internal and external customer needs. The role oversees safe material handling, operating procedures, quality systems, delivery performance, shipping schedules, finished-goods management, customer service, material flow and storage, equipment availability, improvement projects, planning support, and logistics costs. The position also manages budgets for expenses, overtime, and headcount for assigned cost centers.

Requirements

Experience managing customer scorecards, deliveries, and customer systems.
Experience in production control and materials.
Experience using the QAD system.
Ability to interface with suppliers and customers.
Knowledge of materials logistics, problem-solving methodologies, quality-system methodologies, PC, Office, Project, general TS 16949, and manufacturing systems.
Leadership competencies including building effective teams, customer focus, perseverance, drive for results, priority setting, planning, problem solving, organizational agility, dealing with paradox, managing and measuring work, negotiation, leadership, and decision making.

Nice To Haves

Engineering degree or equivalent.
Experience as a manager or coordinator.
Automotive industry experience and UAW interactions.

Responsibilities

Audit material-handling activities for safety and take action on safety issues.
Meet Proeza Internal Control Policy, Metalsa KPIs based on the Focus Document, and MOS guidelines; define, implement, and ensure adherence to working procedures.
Keep the Quality System updated and implemented, and track and validate closure of action plans.
Define, implement, and continuously track process effectiveness to ensure customer deliveries are on time, in the required quantity, and at the required cost.
Ensure shipping schedules meet external requirements, support engineering changes, and communicate schedule updates to production areas.
Track and authorize premium freight related to finished goods.
Serve as the first point of contact for customer complaints and inquiries related to inventory, scheduling, shipping, calendar schedules, shortages, and promise dates; maintain good business relationships.
Report packaging discrepancies and mislabeled parts on time to support supplier improvement metrics.
Ensure the PIVH fleet is appropriately sized and correctly used; audit safety devices and analyze fleet usage.
Oversee finished-goods management and control, including cycle counts, MRB and scrap reports, and A3 development based on cycle-count information.
Improve ESS scores by ensuring team members have appropriate tools and training, work procedures are followed, unsafe conditions are closed, and communication processes are implemented within the area and between departments.
Define, implement, and track material flow based on the current layout and ensure PFEP is updated.
Manage and track material-handling equipment, including containers, with customers and suppliers to ensure sufficient equipment is available to support production.
Define, implement, and track finished-goods storage areas to ensure safety, appropriate sizing, FIFO, and a 5S score above 80.
Develop improvement projects that increase business profitability and validate the effectiveness of implemented work systems.
Support planning by uploading and validating customer requirements and providing information to the scheduler to ensure parts are available to ship.
Manage expenses, overtime, and headcount budgets for assigned cost centers; analyze and track logistics costs.