Logistics Warehouse Group Leader

Metalsa•Elizabethtown, KY

About The Position

Metalsa is a global automotive company with 70 years of experience manufacturing safe and sustainable products. The Logistics Warehouse Group Leader leads and develops the Logistics Team, ensuring shipping and receiving activities are performed efficiently to meet internal and external customer needs. The role oversees safety, quality systems, working procedures, customer deliveries, finished-goods management, material flow, warehouse storage, team readiness, and logistics costs. It also supports planning and continuous improvement while maintaining effective relationships with customers and suppliers.

Requirements

Production control and materials experience.
Experience with the QAD system.
Ability to interface with suppliers and customers.
Technical skills in materials logistics, problem-solving methodologies, quality-system methodologies, PC, Office, Project, general TS 16949 knowledge, and manufacturing systems.
Leadership competencies: 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.
Experience managing customer scorecards, deliveries, and customer systems.
Automotive industry experience and UAW interactions.

Responsibilities

Audit material-handling activities for safety and take action on safety issues and unsafe conditions.
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.
Track and validate completion of action plans.
Continuously define, implement, and track process effectiveness.
Ensure customer deliveries are on time and meet quantity and cost requirements.
Ensure shipping schedules meet external requirements, including Engineering Changes, and communicate schedules to Production areas.
Track and authorize premium freight related to finished goods.
Serve as the first point of contact for customer complaints and inquiries about inventory, scheduling, shipping, calendar schedules, shortages, and promise dates; build and maintain business relationships.
Report packaging and mislabeled-part discrepancies or issues on time to support Supplier Improvement Metrics.
Ensure the PIVH fleet is appropriately sized and used correctly; audit safety devices and analyze usage percentage.
Manage and control finished goods throughout the process.
Track cycle counts, MRB, and scrap reports, and develop A3s using cycle-count information.
Improve the ESS Score.
Ensure team members have the tools and training needed to perform their duties.
Implement a communication process within the area and between departments.
Define, implement, and track material flow based on the current layout; keep PFEP updated.
Manage and track material-handling equipment, including containers, with customers and suppliers to ensure adequate supply for production.
Define, implement, and track safe, appropriately sized finished-goods storage areas that meet FIFO and score above 80 on 5S.
Develop improvement projects that increase business profitability and validate the effectiveness of implemented working systems.
Support the planning process by uploading and validating customer requirements and providing information to the Scheduler to ensure parts are available to ship.
Manage budgets for expenses, overtime, and headcount for assigned cost centers; analyze and track logistics costs.