Shipping Supervisor

Westlake•Shelby, NC

About The Position

Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate. Westlake Pipe & Fittings is looking for a Shipping Supervisor to support our Shipping team at our Shelby Township, MI Fittings plant. SUMMARY The role of the Shipping Supervisor is to direct the company’s shipping/distribution operations to ensure that the company’s supply network is sustained and operating in an efficient and effective manner.

Requirements

High School diploma or GED required with some post-secondary education.
Strongly prefer shipping experience
5+ years’ supervisory experience preferred.
Experience with building products warehousing and shipments
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Ability to translate your skills to other employees through training and mentoring.
Hands-on experience with departmental metrics, experience monitoring the quality, quantity, cost and efficiency of shipping operations.
Familiarity with MS Excel and MS Office suite.
SAP and JDE experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Leads and promotes staff to perform duties in a safe and environmentally responsible manner applying rules, regulations and policies with fair and consistent practice
Leads internal efforts in developing implementation of best practices throughout the shipping operation
Manage day to day shipping operations, measures performance for on-time, in-full delivery performance, shipping costs for all forms of transit, warehouse inventory management, warehousing productivity and quality, and workforce planning requirements
Investigates cause analysis issues for problem reconciliation and leads corrective action for complaints related to transportation, logistics handling and warehousing of finished products.
Manages physical condition of warehouse and equipment.
Prepares work order for repairs and requisites for replacement of equipment.
Directs staff to support strategic customer care service objectives, enhance staff, team skills and competencies, and establish team performance objectives.
Ensures that all carriers comply with legal, quality and safety standards.
Confers with department heads to ensure coordination of warehouse activities with activities of other functions such as production, sales, quality control and purchasing.
Define the needed skills, tools and equipment to meet shipping department objectives.
Establishes standard operational procedures for activities such as verification of incoming and outgoing shipment’s, handling and disposition of materials and keeping warehouse inventory current.