Bay Area Director of Logistics & Materials

Southland Industries Inc.; Brandywine (MD); On-site; USD 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Health insurance

Annual bonus

Paid parental leave

Employee ownership

Training opportunities

Paid holidays

Job summary

Southland Industries seeks a Director, Logistics to lead end-to-end material movement, storage, and delivery across Northern California facilities, including Union City, San Francisco, and Sacramento. You will craft a strategy to support fabrication, warehouses, project teams, and field operations.

As primary logistics leader, you will drive safety, visibility, efficiency, and cost control, building cross-functional partnerships and guiding a high-performing team in a dynamic construction

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor’s degree in logistics, supply-chain management, construction management, operations, business, engineering, or a related field preferred.
• 10+ years’ experience in Logistics, with at least five years’ experience as a people manager.
• Regular travel between company warehouses, fabrication shops, jobsites, and other facilities throughout Northern California.
• Experience overseeing a regional or multi-location logistics network is strongly preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in warehouse, fabrication-shop, yard, and active construction-site environments.
• Strong analytical and project management skills.
• Strong multi-task and prioritization skills.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Solid computer skills in Microsoft Excel, Tool Watch, Outlook, Coins, Scheduling Software as applicable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end movement, handling, storage, and delivery of construction materials across multiple Northern California facilities including Union City, San Francisco, and Sacramento.
• Develop a coordinated logistics operation serving fabrication shops, warehouses, project teams, field operations, suppliers, and transportation partners throughout the Bay Area and Sacramento region.
• Improve operational efficiency, material visibility, delivery reliability, safety, and cost control across the company’s logistics network.
• Oversee shipping and receiving warehouses, fabrication-shop material flow, interfacility transfers, temporary storage, and final jobsite deliveries.
• Ensure materials arrive at the correct location, in the correct condition and sequence, at the time required to support fabrication and field installation.
• Manage Northern California's tool center and cart program, and primary responsibility for tracking, ordering, and delivering tools to jobsites.
• Serves the primary divisional leader for logistics and material-flow operations.
• Develop and implement a company-wide logistics strategy covering receiving, warehousing, material handling, fabrication support, transportation, and jobsite delivery.
• Oversee company drivers, fleet resources, third-party carriers, trucking vendors, and specialized transportation providers.
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable warehouse, shipping, receiving, transportation, and material-handling personnel.
• Coordinate deliveries with project teams to confirm site access, unloading requirements, crane or forklift availability, delivery windows, permits, and staging locations.
• Define roles, staffing requirements, shift coverage, and management responsibilities across multiple locations.

Skills

People management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Project management

Multi-tasking

Customer service

Leadership

Education

High School diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree in logistics, supply-chain management, construction management, operations, business, engineering, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Tool Watch

Outlook

Coins

Scheduling Software

Job description

Southland Industries seeks a Director, Logistics to lead end-to-end material movement, storage, and delivery across Northern California facilities, including Union City, San Francisco, and Sacramento. You will craft a strategy to support fabrication, warehouses, project teams, and field operations.

As primary logistics leader, you will drive safety, visibility, efficiency, and cost control, building cross-functional partnerships and guiding a high-performing team in a dynamic construction