Transportation and Logistics Supervisor

Tenneco • Greenville, MI

5d • 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 moves plant logistics from reactive freight decisions to planned, system-based, and measurable execution.

The position collaborates with supply and demand planning, regional logistics and procurement, warehouse and production, finance and accounts payable, customers, suppliers, and carriers. It is responsible for supporting planned transportation, reliable shipment execution, controlled freight costs, accountable carrier performance, and P3 logistics maturity.

Requirements

• 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.
• Bachelor’s degree in logistics, supply chain, business, engineering, or a related field.
• Operations or Logistics supervisory experience.
• Working knowledge of TMS, ERP, Excel, and transportation analytics or visibility tools.
• Strong urgency, service orientation, negotiation awareness, and structured escalation skills.
• Fluent 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.
• 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.
• Coordinate dock schedules, staging, pickup, dispatch, and recovery with warehouse and production operations.
• Support freight-cost visibility, approvals, accruals, invoice accuracy, and controlled premium-freight spending.
• Communicate expectations and resolve issues with customers, suppliers, and carriers.
• Support documented RASCI, trained backups, review cadence, KPI evidence, and controlled deviations for P3 logistics maturity.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being.
• Hands-on exposure to Lean, ERP, Analytics, cross-functional problem solving, and plant transformation.
• Opportunity to work and learn in a fast-paced environment while shaping the P3 Integrated Supply Chain operating system.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager