Shipping Supervisor

WestRock • West Point, VA

40d

About The Position

Opportunity summary: As Shipping Supervisor, you will be responsible for overseeing daily activities for shipping finished rolls to customers; managing all aspects of shipping, roll finishing, warehousing, and providing direction and leadership to shipping personnel.

Requirements

• High school diploma or G.E.D. equivalent.
• Focus on increasing customer satisfaction by ensuring obligations are met in timely manner.
• Aptitude to calculate estimated costs associated with the shipping/delivery functions.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with other managers, staff, Corporate Transportation, CSR's, Production Planners, and vendors.
• Proficiency inputer skills including Microsoft Office- Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
• Well-developed oral and writtenmunications skills.
• Ability to coach and develop talent to create a highly productive, safety-conscious team.
• Strong decision-making skills with the ability to adapt and quickly respond to unforeseen changes in the production environment.

Nice To Haves

• Prefer 1 to 3 years of production leadership experience.
• Prefer 2 to 3 years of logistics/industrial/shipping experience.
• Proficiency in mill MES system “Panther” is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure shipping employees work safely and contribute to a collaborative and a proactive safety and housekeeping culture that drives results.
• Prepare and review daily and monthly reports tomunicate critical shipping information.
• Communicate with various levels of management and departments to ensure that goals are aplished.
• Work collaboratively with Mill Production, Production Planners and Transportation Planners to assess, manage and prioritize customer requests to ensure load planning accuracy and enable high customer satisfaction.
• Order and maintain proper levels of materials and supplies.
• Generate weekly crew schedules for department.
• Monitor and evaluate loading and planning processes to ensure orders are loaded correctly, damage free and efficiently.
• Supervise shipping employees; manage a robust training program, perform employee reviews.
• Tender load ready times to carriers based on production ready dates and times.
• Back up Materials Management Associate and Logistics Manager as needed.

Benefits

• We offerpetitive pay, excellent benefits, and the opportunity to work in a collaborative, safety-focused environment w your leadership makes a difference.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees