Logistics Manager

Leadership:

• Supervises plant Logistics team including hiring, delegation, training, performance evaluation, disciplinary actions for shipping and receiving of on time deliveries
• Coaches and guide staff in the use of supporting systems and in cross functional team play.
• Lead all internal materials management activities.

Budgeting, Cost Control & Operations Stewardship:

• Tracks and reports key performance indicators and metrics for the production coordination and logistics functions.
• Creation and implementation of a streamlined logistics process to minimize cost and optimize resources.

Policies & Procedures:

• Ensures staff are trained in all safety procedures. Frequently audit fork truck operations and rail shunting operations.
• Ensures staff fully utilize the SAP system to manage the material flows in MRP and PP planning and logistics functions.
• Develop and/or modify appropriate policies and procedures for managing supply chain for improvements, in collaboration with other manufacturing locations.

  Production Coordination

• Ensures staff work closely with production and scheduler to learn plant production cost structure to guide intelligent scheduling
• Ensures lines of communication are open with sales, customer service and production to anticipate problems and manage change with minimal impact on flow of production.
• Manages raw materials and finished product inventories to target levels. Work with sales to work off aged inventory.
• Responsible for inventory record accuracy, cycle counts, scrap accuracy, spills, contamination and other losses.
• Leads and manages annual inventory process, as well as auditing plant yield
• Assists corporate materials group in cost reduction initiatives as well as the sourcing and planning of packaging materials
• Ensures procedures are followed to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the SAP system (recipes are current, material balances complete and jobs closed quickly.

Logistics Management:

• Ensures staff maintains good operating relationships with carriers to ensure timely inbound and outbound shipments
• Manages warehouse, shipping and receiving operations
• Manages day to day distribution operations to ensure minimum inventories are maintained in satellite warehouses
• Ensures all staff have training in basic fork truck operations

Continuous Improvement:

• Maintains control charts on key production and distribution parameters. Compares with other plant sites to identify improvement opportunities
• Analyzes work flow regularly to seek out lean manufacturing opportunities.
• Reviews carrier performance levels, follow up on non conformance issues.

Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Supply Chain Management or Business or Engineering
• Certification of CPIM preferred by the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS) is a definite asset.
• Hands-on experience with shipping, logistics, distribution, receipt management, vendor performance appraisal.
• Experience or accreditation with Six Sigma is highly desirable.

Minimum Experience:

• 5 years experience in manufacturing environment
• 3 years experience with Ingenia in Operations or Logistics
• Demonstrated leadership skills, 2-3 years supervisory experience preferred