Supervisor-Shipping

Westlake Chemical; Sarnia; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Shipping Supervisor to lead regional shipping operations. This role involves overseeing daily shipping activities, ensuring safety compliance, and optimizing performance metrics. The ideal candidate will have a strong supervisory background and experience in shipping operations, particularly within the building products sector. Join a company that values innovation and teamwork, offering a supportive environment for professional growth and development. If you're ready to take your career to the next level, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

401k Match

Quarterly Incentive Plan

Fitness Reimbursement

Educational Assistance

Employee Assistance Programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years' supervisory experience preferred in shipping.
• Hands-on experience with shipping operations metrics.
• Strongly prefer experience in plastics extrusion.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day shipping operations and performance.
• Lead and promote safe practices in the shipping department.
• Ensure compliance with legal, quality, and safety standards.

Skills

Supervisory Experience

Communication Skills

Training and Mentoring

Shipping Operations Metrics

MS Excel

SAP

Forklift Certification

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Post-Secondary Education

Tools

MS Office Suite

Forklift

SAP

Job description

Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.

Benefits day 1, 4% 401k match plus 2% annual employer contribution, quarterly incentive plan up to 8%, plus programs for fitness reimbursement, educational assistance, and employee assistance. Take your career to the next level and join us now!Westlake Pipe & Fittings, a Westlake company (NYSE:WLK), is the second-largest polyvinyl chloride pipe and fittings manufacturer in North America. Westlake Pipe & Fittings supplies gasketed, solvent weld and restrained joint pipes and a wide range of fittings for a diverse list of markets including municipal water and sewer, plumbing, water well, pool and spa, and agricultural and turf irrigation. Westlake Pipe & Fittings is an industry leader in product development with Certa-Lok spline-lock technology and product systems that are focused on building A Better Foundation. To learn more, visit the website at WestlakePipe.comWe believe in creating a supportive and inclusive culture that empowers and encourages our associates to succeed through individual achievement and teamwork. A career at Westlake Pipe & Fittings, is enriched with an innovative spirit, high work ethic, and rewarding experiences. We foster a culture that supports professional development, personal growth, and opportunities for advancement.

SUMMARY

The role of the Shipping Supervisor is to direct the company's regional shipping/distribution operations to ensure that the company's supply network is sustained and operating in an efficient and effective manner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Leads and promotes staff to perform duties in a safe and environmentally responsible manner applying rules, regulations and policies with fair and consistent practice.
• Verifies that safety checks are being completed on forklifts and drivers are maintain safe driving during transit.
• Coordinates company truck driver and schedules routes.
• Leads internal efforts in developing implementation of best practices throughout the shipping operation.
• Engages team in safe practices and observations.
• Manage day to day shipping operations, measures performance for on-time, in-full delivery performance, shipping costs for all forms of transit, warehouse inventory management, warehousing productivity and quality, and workforce planning requirements.
• Adjusts trucks and crewing, to maintain available shipping resources.
• Monitors and coordinates pipe wrapping and partial units.
• Investigates cause analysis issues for problem reconciliation and leads corrective action for complaints related to transportation, logistics handling and warehousing of finished products.
• Manages physical condition of warehouse, equipment, and yard.
• Reviews and verifies pipe inventory count and condition.
• Processes slow moving and faded obsolescence monthly.
• Completes required cycle counts on a quarterly basis.
• Prepares work order for repairs and requisites for replacement of equipment.
• Directs staff to support strategic customer care service objectives, enhance staff, team skills and competencies, and establish team performance objectives.
• Ensures that all carriers comply with legal, quality and safety standards.
• Confers with department heads to ensure coordination of warehouse activities with activities of other functions such as production, sales, quality control and purchasing.
• Define the needed skills, tools and equipment to meet shipping department objectives.
• Establishes standard operational procedures for activities such as verification of incoming and outgoing shipment's, handling and disposition of materials and keeping warehouse inventory current.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Directly supervises Shipping department at location. Carries out supervisor responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, code of conduct and applicable laws.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years' supervisory experience preferred.
• Experience with building products warehousing and shipments
• Excellent communication.
• Ability to translate your skills to other employees through training and mentoring.
• Hands-on experience with departmental metrics, experience monitoring the quality, quantity, cost and efficiency of shipping operations.
• Familiarity with MS Excel and MS Office suite.
• SAP experience preferred.
• Forklift Certified preferred

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

High School Diploma or GED required with some post-secondary education. Strongly prefer some shipping experience in plastics extrusion.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.

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