Transportation and Logistics Supervisor

Tenneco•Greenville, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Transportation and Logistics Supervisor owns plant transportation planning and execution in accordance with approved lanes, routing guides, modes, carriers, rates, and system workflows. The role balances cost, service, capacity, inventory, and risk while maintaining shipment visibility and disciplined exception management. Through P3 Integrated Supply Chain, the supervisor helps move the plant from reactive freight decisions to planned, system-based, measurable logistics execution. The position partners with supply and demand planning, regional logistics and procurement, warehouse and production teams, finance and accounts payable, customers, suppliers, and carriers. Its intended outcomes include proactive transportation planning, reliable shipment execution, controlled freight costs, accountable carrier performance, and documented P3 logistics processes, including RASCI, trained backups, review cadence, KPI evidence, and controlled deviations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in logistics, supply chain, business, engineering, or a related field.
Operations or logistics supervisory experience.
Experience with transportation planning, including lane design, mode selection, routing, consolidation, frequency, capacity, and load utilization.
Experience with transportation execution, including tendering, dispatch, shipment visibility, exceptions, claims, and carrier escalation.
Hands-on experience with transportation systems, routing guides, carrier master data, and system workflows.
Experience analyzing freight spend, premium freight, utilization, rates, and improvement opportunities.
Ability to connect plant execution with Procurement, regional Logistics, Finance, suppliers, customers, and carriers.
Working knowledge of TMS, ERP, Excel, and transportation analytics or visibility tools.
Strong urgency, service orientation, negotiation awareness, and structured escalation skills.
Fluency in English and the local plant language, as required.

Nice To Haves

APICS, CILT, Lean, or Six Sigma certification.

Responsibilities

Align transportation capacity and timing with supplier requirements, production schedules, and customer shipments.
Maintain accurate lane and PFEP inputs and use demand, packaging, lead time, weight, cube, frequency, and service requirements to define mode, routing, consolidation, and capacity.
Execute approved sourcing decisions, routing guides, contracted carriers, and escalation rules; prevent independent carrier changes and unmanaged spot freight.
Tender, dispatch, monitor, and recover shipments through the approved TMS process, maintaining visibility into pickup, transit, delivery, and exceptions.
Coordinate dock schedules, staging, pickup, dispatch, and shipment recovery with warehouse and production teams.
Enforce approval, reason codes, cost ownership, root-cause analysis, and recurrence prevention for premium and expedited freight.
Track freight cost, premium freight, routing compliance, utilization, carrier service, TMS usage, and action closure.
Provide accurate lane data and escalate carrier, rate, or capacity issues with supporting evidence.
Support freight-cost visibility, approvals, accruals, invoice accuracy, and controlled premium-freight spending.
Communicate expectations and resolve issues accountably with customers, suppliers, and carriers.
Establish documented logistics processes, trained backups, review cadence, KPI evidence, and controls for deviations.