Shipping & Warehouse Foreman

Arcosa Careers•Tulsa, OK

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Shipping & Warehouse Foreman is responsible for ensuring that shipping and warehouse processes are followed in the most cost-effective manner. This role involves coordinating the movement, storage, and security of materials and products, liaising with customers and logistics agents, and managing inventory accuracy. The Foreman also plays a key role in setting schedules, communicating staffing needs, and focusing on continuous improvement of material flow. Additionally, the position requires overseeing daily operations, training and directing employees, ensuring safety, and monitoring production goals.

Requirements

Experience in shipping and warehouse processes.
Ability to coordinate incoming and outgoing movement, storage, and security of materials.
Skills in liaising with customers and logistics agents.
Ability to ensure material availability and timely delivery.
Experience in setting work schedules based on production plans and customer needs.
Ability to communicate staffing requirements.
Focus on continuous improvement.
Experience overseeing operations in a production environment.
Ability to train, instruct, and direct employees.
Coaching and mentoring skills.
Experience with inventory accuracy processes (cycle counting, physical inventory).
Experience auditing material transactions within ERP software.
Knowledge of workplace safety policies and ability to enforce them.
Ability to monitor schedules to meet manufacturing goals.
Ability to exercise independent judgment.
Willingness to fill-in as needed.

Responsibilities

Ensure shipping and warehouse processes are intact and followed in a most cost-effective manner.
Coordinates incoming and outgoing movement, storage and security of raw materials, finished products, and parts.
Liaison with customers and logistics agents to coordinate delivery of products and accessories, delivery priorities and mutually beneficial delivery schedules.
Ensure material availability and delivery when needed to meet production schedules; work with peers to resolve material availability issues to ensure orders ship complete.
Set Final Assembly and transportation work schedules based on production plan, customer delivery requirements and materials availability.
Communicate staffing resource requirements and volume required to meet demand and to ensure maximum production quantity and quality.
Focuses resources on continuous improvement of the movement of materials through various production processes.
Oversee day-to-day operations of the group in a production environment.
Train, instruct and direct work activities of employees.
Coach and mentor for performance improvement as appropriate.
Assure inventory accuracy by facilitating cycle counting and physical inventory processes.
Audit material receipt, movement and issue transactions within ERP software to assure inventory accuracy and troubleshoot potential issues.
Train and ensure the safety of team members, enforcing workplace safety policies.
Monitor schedule to accomplish manufacturing goals.
Exercise independent judgment.
Fill-in as needed so that production goals can be met.
Other duties as assigned.