Evansville, IN

Full-Time

6223

Job Title: Shipping Supervisor

Reports To: Logistics Manager

Department: Shipping
Location: Franklin, KY

FLSA Status: Full Time

Compensation: Salary

As a standalone business, our client is poised to strengthen its leadership in pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes, delivering innovative solutions to industrial and specialty markets worldwide. Headquartered in Franklin, KY, our client, manufactures specialty foil, film, and duct tapes and adhesives. With over 1,500 specialty SKUs spanning 500+ product families, Our client serves 1,500+ customers across the HVAC, building and construction, industrial, retail, medical, aerospace, automotive, and other specialty industries.

Job Summary: To foster an environment of learning and application. Our commitment is to provide you with a real-life, meaningful experience where you will manage projects from start to finish.

Front Line Leader Responsibilities:

Accountable for the safety of all employees for whom they are responsible through active engagement in safety activities and providing clear, consistent communication of safe work expectations
Supports and investigates situations in which line/equipment stoppage occurs due to perceived, imminent safety risk
Completes responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and procedures, and applicable laws
Actively leads risk assessment activities for their area of responsibility by driving prioritized corrective and preventative actions to eliminate/reduce environmental, health or safety risks
Lead all required meetings with safety (I.e. Pre-Shift, Department, Change Management, General communication, Town Hall, etc..)
Completes incident investigations, root cause analysis and implements corrective actions accordingly in a timely and thorough manner
Ensures the proper training and development of all assigned employees for whom they are responsible.
Sets goals for their organizational unit; achieves goals and ensures that all employees understand and work toward achieving goals
Motivates and coaches employees through good communication and frequent performance feedback. Identifies and coordinates additional training as needed.

Key Responsibilities:

Sort and segregate ship tickets, assign shipment routings, contact trucking companies to make sure customer shipments go out on time.
Provide necessary export documentation and QA documents for required shipments.
Insure attendance and employee time worked is kept properly with documentation.
Provide shipment information to needed parties.
Responsible for 5S of office and sample operations area.
Responsible for safety of employees with zero accidents.
Work on special projects and teams as needed to insure continuous improvement.
Printing and processing of all customer shipments with on time shipments that is in the Distribution Centers control.
Provide correct documentation for all shipments.
Make sure direct reports are shipping orders on a first in first out basis.
Communicate with customer service on a daily basis to ensure that the Franklin facility is on target to make monthly shipment dollars if orders are available.
Maintain daily employee time processing and attendance reports. Verify employee hours, attendance and vacation.
Responsible for Sample area making sure 5s is maintained and samples are shipped to customers in a timely manner

Other Responsibilities:

Perform additional responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications:

4 year degree or equivalent combination of education and experience acceptable.
At least 3 year of experience in shipping. Overall knowledge of general manufacturing a must.
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to lead others
Good interpersonal skills when dealing with tough employee issues
Must be computer literate and proficient with E-mail and Microsoft Office applications (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF JOB:

Supervisor must be able to monitor assigned departments.
Supervisor must be able to locate materials throughout the plant.
Supervisor must be able to perform safety audits.
Supervisor must be able to lead safety meetings.
Supervisor must be able to communicate with maintenance and quality departments.
Supervisor must be able to perform paperwork and computer work.

Never	Occasional	Frequent	Constant
0% of an 8 hour day	1-33% of an 8 hour day	34-66% of an 8 hour day	67-100% of an 8 hour day
0 hours	≤ 2.6 hours	³ 2.7 hrs – ≤ 5.2 hrs	≥ 5.3 hours
Material Handling	1-32 repetitions/day	33-200 repetitions/day	> 200 repetitions/day
Non-Material Handling	1-100 repetitions/day	101–800 repetitions/day	> 800 repetitions/day

Standing: (Frequent) Supervisor must be able to stand to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as monitoring departments, locating materials, performing safety audits and communicating with maintenance/quality departments.

Walking: (Frequent) Supervisor must be able to walk to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as monitoring departments, locating materials, performing safety audits and communicating with maintenance/quality departments.

Sitting: (Frequent) Supervisor must be able to sit to perform various duties associated with essential job functions such as communicating with maintenance/quality departments and performing paper/computer work.

Lifting: (Occasional) Supervisor must be able to lift up to 25 pounds from floor to waist level of 36 inches to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as moving materials.

Carrying: (Occasional) Supervisor must be able to complete front or side carries of various boxes weighing up to 25 pounds for distances up to 15 feet.

Pushing/Pulling: (Occasional) Supervisor must be able to generate push force and pull force of < 50 pounds to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as moving boxes and pallets.

Forward Bending: (Occasional) Supervisor must be able to attain/maintain a forward flexed position of up to 60 degrees to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as picking up/maneuvering loose material.

Trunk Rotation: (Occasional) Supervisor must be able to rotate their trunk/torso left-right in a standing position to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as performing office work and locating materials.

Reaching: (Occasional) Supervisor must be able to forward reach to a shoulder level of up to 60 inches to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as performing office work and locating materials.

Manipulating/Handling/Gripping: (Occasional) Supervisor must be able complete gripping, pinching and manipulation of various pieces of equipment to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as moving materials. A grip force of < 50 pounds is necessary for the completion of tasks.

Climbing: (Occasionally) Supervisor must be able to ascend/descend steps and /or equipment varying from 7 – 12 inches in step heights to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as accessing storage above office area.

Kneeling: (Occasionally) Supervisor must be able to kneel to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as trouble shooting under rail cars.

Crouching: (Never)

Crawling: (Never)

Squatting: (Occasional) Supervisor must be able to squat to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as picking up/locating materials.

Postural Balancing: (Frequent) Supervisor must be able to maintain both static and dynamic standing balance to complete various duties associated with essential job functions such as monitoring departments, locating materials, performing safety audits and communicating with maintenance/quality departments.

WORK LEVEL:

Light Work (Level 2) as defined by the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

	Sedentary (1)	Light (2)	Medium (3)	Heavy (4)	Very Heavy (5)
Occasional	≤ 10 lbs.	≤ 20 lbs.	≤ 50 lbs.	≤ 100 lbs.	> 100 lbs.
Frequent	Negligible	≤ 10 lbs.	≤ 25 lbs.	≤ 50 lbs.	> 50 lbs.
Constant			≤ 10 lbs	≤ 20 lbs.	> 20 lbs

SIGNIFICANT WORKSITE MEASUREMENTS:

Tools: weighing up to 5 pounds.

Materials: weighing up to 25 pounds.

Steps/Ladders: up to 7-12-inch step/rung heights.

TOOLS/EQUIPMENT USED TO PERFORM JOB:

None

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