Shipping And Receiving Supervisor

Primary Accountability:

The Shipping and Receiving Supervisor is responsible to lead in a way that is representative and supportive of the culture that IMI requires so as to hit department and company metrics and goals.  This position requires a leader that respects the members on their team and continuously grows them into being full owners of their job positions, making impactful decisions and continually improving their own area and environment of work without directed help.  This leader will bring the best out of their department team, helping them accomplish and personally develop into a world-class team with the other departments of IMI.  A world-class team operates safely and with the highest degree of quality, while becoming extremely efficient at their work, controlling costs to be profitable.

This is a working leadership position meaning that this person will often help their team complete physical work on the floor or in the shipping yard.  The Manufacturing Supply Chain team is responsible for the receiving and shipping of all materials, items and finished products, movement of materials around the facility, accurately tracking and accounting for stocked items and hardware, ordering of stocked items, hardware, or materials needed, and handling services required outside of the facility.  PIVs are primarily used, and include forklifts, telehandlers, and DOT certified light trucks.

Leadership and Culture Expectations:

• Treat all employes of IMI with mutual respect, care, and empathy in a “one team” philosophy.
• Take full ownership of your department and team’s success, taking responsibility to find and solve any issue that may come your way.
• Show support for the company and other leaders to those members on the floor as any great team does.
• Be an encouraging teammate that also gives candid feedback to others in a positive and constructive manner with the intent of growing a stronger team.
• Understand and believe that focused effort towards growing your team members is the best thing for the member and the company.
• Expect and drive a high level of performance within your team, timely coaching your team members when they need to improve and holding them accountable if they don’t.
• Drive your team to take pride in their work, hitting timelines, their environment, and the culture.

General Department Objectives:

• Supervise and coordinate the work of employees who set up and operate machines. 
• Provide a safe environment for your team members, improving safe practices as well as engineered solutions in your department while also holding the members accountable for taking safety seriously.
• Understand and drive quality in your department’s process.
• Keep the department area clean, organized, and running properly.
• Understand and control the spending within your department, driving the team to make good business decisions that improve profitability.

• Control and manage the hand and power tools that are needed and assigned to the department.
• Maintain any equipment in the department, including those machines located within the department.
• Be able to inspect, use, and maintain PIVs assigned to the department.
• Understand and be able to support any safety programs that apply to the department.

Department Specific Responsibilities:

• Properly receive and ship products, materials, supplies, hardware, and outside serviced items
• Schedule the shipping and receiving of items with shipping vendors.
• Clean, organize and maintain the parts room, storage buildings, shipping yard, storage containers, and material racks.
• Organize, label, record movement, and cycle count materials, hardware, and stocked items.
• Order stocked items, materials, hardware, and supplies when needed.
• Call-out any quality issues found or created.
• Be able to use hand and power tools correctly.
• Must be able to operate PIV machinery in a safe manner.
• Must be able to recognize when fall protection is necessary, and to be able to work in those environments.
• Must be able to safely operate a crane or jib hoist.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent required, associate’s degree preferred.
• At least 4 years of experience in the related area is required.
• Active Driver’s License required, CDL preferred.
• Proficient in using basic computer software, calculators, and weight scales. Microsoft Office programs such as Outlook, Excel, Word are most commonly used.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to complete work in a fast-paced, team-oriented work environment.
• Detail oriented and capable of organizing small and large items
• Be highly adaptable and possess the ability to prioritize and multitask.

Physical Demands:

• Physically mobile with ability to bend, reach, kneel, twist and grip items on a concrete surface.
• Ability to read paper drawings, computer screens, and email.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
• Ability to lift up to forty (40) pounds.
• A small amount of climbing stairs may be required.

Work Environment:

• Majority of time will be spent in the shop floor.
• The shop floor is NOT climate controlled. It is dusty, sometimes confined, and possesses constant trip hazards.
• Interaction with team members and clients in both remote and on-site locations.

Work Hours:

• Current 8 hour shift is 6:00 am to 2:30 pm, with ½ hour unpaid lunch break.
• Overtime is often required and may be before or after the shift depending on weather conditions or other situations
• Weekend work may be required when workload requires
• Leaders should allow time to prepare for their team’s success by coming in early or staying late.
• Flexible schedules can be approved by the direct leader/manager if it doesn’t impact the success of the company.

Additional Duties:

Additional duties and responsibilities may be added to this job description at any time. The job description does not state or imply that these are the only activities to be performed by the employee(s) holding this position.  Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related responsibilities as requested by their supervisor.