Description:
Responsible for ensuring that all outgoing shipments are accurate in terms of the product amount. Direct the storage and handling of products and inventories, ensuring proper documentation of all incoming, outgoing and warehoused material while ensuring that all health, safety, & environmental policies and procedures are followed. Ensures safety, environmental waste conservation & efficient resource consumption to achieve the plant goals.
Principal Responsibilities
- Ensures a safe working environment for all employees.
- Supervise all shipment of orders as requested from plant to designation by checking accurate quantity and that it meets company standards and policies in respect to packaging, neatness and cleanliness.
- Follows First-In, First-Out (FIFO) procedure and completes all required Shipping & Receiving documentation accurately
- Use our ERP software (Infoflo & TMS) to handle the incoming and
- outgoing orders and transfers
- Responsible for ensuring that all outgoing shipments meet with IPEX’ shipping standards, and product ships on schedule.
- Maintaining shipping waste management in yard & warehouse. Organize warehouse and yard layout for efficient movement of materials as well as finding and counting product. Improve space and coordinate flow of materials.
- Conduct frequent physical inventory of warehouse and yard, documenting discrepancies and providing accurate counts, gains and losses. Relay pertinent information to management in a timely manner.
- Responsible to help sustain, enforce, and continually improve the 5S program.
- Performs necessary administrative functions related to the position.
- Manage the receiving, shipping, distribution and storage of all products and supplies that come in and out of the plant.
- Cut stock transfer, consolidate shipment where required, prepare Bill of Lading (BOL) and customs invoices where required.
- Coordinate and delegate to for physical counts of inventory and adjust as required.
- Communicate any delays or variances in inbound and outbound freight to appropriate parties in a timely manner.
- Manage MRP Shipping workbench to ensure all shipping and production orders are not past due and shipped to customers on time.
- Manage and assign workload accordingly for Material Handlers to ensure shipping and receiving is completed efficiently to meet production goals
- Participate in hiring process of new employees
- Conduct performance reviews and build personal development plans for all direct reports. Provide mentorship and counselling when required.
- Ensure shipping area is always sustained to established standards by delegating accountability to Material Handlers as required.
- Inventory management tasks such as managing negative inventory and production bins.
- Perform other duties as required and/or assigned.
Qualifications & Experience
- Completion of High School
- Must have Transportation of Dangerous Goods certification.
- 3 to 5 years of experience as a shipper with 1 of these in a supervisory position.
- At least 3 years’ experience in plastic manufacturing considered an asset
- Experience and familiarity of ISO 9001 requirements and processes in relation to production an asset
- Able to operate IPEX lift truck & reach truck license.
- Good PC skills including MS Office: Word, Excel and Outlook
- Excellent motivational, leadership, coaching, problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Able to coordinate and organize multiple responsibilities at the same time.
- Able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
- Excellent communication, leadership, time management and prioritizing skills.
- Successful candidate must complete a CTPAT background check