Shipping Supervisor 2nd Shift (Manufacturing)

Ponca City Development Authority•Ponca City, OK

About The Position

The Dock/Shipping Supervisor is responsible for the handling/loading and shipping of finished goods. Lead and direct the daily activities of the shipping department, including productivity, quality, service, and on-time delivery in a safe and efficient manner, ensuring customer requirements, organization goals, and department KPI’s are achieved.

Requirements

High School diploma or 3+ years of dock work experience in a fast-paced environment.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Program (Excel, Word, and Outlook).
Possesses a “can do” attitude with a “will do” work ethic.
Have strong time management skills and the ability to work well in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Strong organizational and leadership skills with the ability to handle numerous details, deadlines, and requests.
Strong interpersonal skills to effectively lead and communicate with production team, dock team, and management.
Frequent walking, standing, using hands, reaching, climbing, stooping, kneeling, and crouching. Some crawling may be required.
Frequently lift up to 65 pounds.
Vision abilities including close vision, distant vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus on moving parts.
Frequent pushing, pulling, and carrying door sections.

Nice To Haves

bachelor’s degree in business management, supply chain management or related field.

Responsibilities

Directly supervise, coach, train, mentor, and provide feedback and accountability on all activities of dockworkers engaged in staging, loading, and unloading trailers.
Assign job tasks to employees according to stage/load/unload schedule and work assigned shifts as needed.
Establishes high morale workplace environment by effectively managing dock work schedules, time off requests, providing positive and constructive performance feedback, and handling disciplinary corrective actions while showing fairness, consistency, and confidentiality.
Develop strong rapport with various freight lines, team members and management.
Conducts daily/weekly shift meetings and attend management meetings when scheduled.
Monitors, evaluates, and trains employees on safe lifting techniques, and adheres to the company’s safety procedures and practices.
Provide a clean, safe working environment for all personnel and visiting customers by conducting daily required inspections to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations including compliance with OSHA and DOT (driver/trailer inspection logs and records.)
Complete tasks as directed by manufacturing schedules, reports defective materials, questionable conditions and or missing materials to management.
Adheres to daily production schedule to ensure production levels are planned for and met, while coordinating with production team to get 100% product delivered to dock area for on-time shipping.
Works with the Logistics Supervisor, Production Control Manager and Plant Manager to ensure alignment in meeting daily/weekly/monthly and yearly business objectives.
Ensures that 100% of trailers are loaded correctly to ensure safe transport of freight.
Complete forklift job training knowledge and uses a forklift as necessary.