Logistics Supervisor

The Wonderful Company; Mission (TX); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exclusive product discounts

Career advancement

Professional mentorship

Housing assistance

Job summary

The Wonderful Company seeks a Shipping Supervisor at our Mission, TX facility to supervise and coordinate activities of workers handling receipts and shipments. You’ll study notices, invoices, and orders to determine priorities and methods, oversee loading/unloading, and guide the team to meet schedules.

Responsibilities include preparing bills of lading, directing shipment movement, and ensuring accurate, safe operations while maintaining a productive work environment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 1-3 years' experience in shipping, receiving, or warehouse.
• Ability to read, write, and understand English.
• Ability to perform basic math and data entry.

Responsibilities

• Study shipping notices, invoices, and orders to determine shipping priorities and methods.
• Oversee incoming and outgoing shipping activities for accuracy and condition of shipments.
• Direct movement of shipments from shipping/receiving platform to storage and work areas.
• Prepare bills of lading and provide instructions to subordinates.
• Ensure safety and address employee grievances; maintain productive work environment.

Skills

English literacy

Customer service

Math proficiency

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Basic computer literacy

Job description

Wonderful Citrus is North America’s leading integrated grower, shipper and packer of fresh citrus, including clementines/mandarins, navel and Valencia oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits, and other citrus varieties. Wonderful Citrus farms more than 74,000 acres of fresh citrus and has supplier relationships around the world to ensure a year-round supply. Our citrus can be found in all channels of distribution, with our consumer brands most visible in the produce department of grocery stores across the globe under our flagship consumer brands, Wonderful Halos Mandarins, Wonderful Seedless Lemons, and Wonderful Sweet Scarletts Texas Red Grapefruit.

Job Description

Overview:

Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in verifying and keeping records on incoming and outgoing shipments, and preparing items for shipment

Here's what you'll do:

• Studies shipping notices, bills of lading, invoices, orders, and other records to determine shipping priorities, work assignments, and shipping methods required to meet shipping and receiving schedules.
• Oversee incoming and outgoing shipping activities to ensure accuracy, completeness, and condition of shipments.
• Determines space requirements and position of shipment in trucks and lays out position of shipment.
• Determines legal load limits of trucks. Inspects loading operations to ensure compliance with shipping specifications.
• Inspects material handling equipment for defects and notifies maintenance.
• Directs movement of shipments from shipping and receiving platform to storage and work areas.
• Prepares bills of lading. Issues written and oral instruction to subordinates.
• Maintains productive work environment by resolves employee grievances, providing constructive feedback and setting attainable expectations.
• Determines Shipping and Receiving hours that is tailored to seasonality’s and volumes.
• Report any order outages and inventory discrepancies.
• Give plant managers vision of upcoming pack needs for major retailers.
• Work with sales to keep a safety stock in inventory.
• Coordinate with shipping the rotation of inventory.
• Schedules weekly workforce to ensure operational coverage.
• Provides and ensures well Customer Service to all internal and external customers.
• Implements processes that improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Provides and ensures a safe work environment and reports any outages immediately.

Qualifications

Here’s what you’ll bring to the table:

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• 1-3 years' experience in shipping, receiving or warehouse.
• Experience in supervising others.
• Ability to read and write in English.
• Ability to do general math.
• Must have basic computer literacy.
• Customer service oriented.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedures manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and climb or balance.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Additional Information

Wonderful's dedication to you:

• Exclusive Product Discounts - Enjoy special savings on our products as part of our team!
• Growth & Career Advancement - Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
• Professional Mentorship - Learn from experienced professionals and grow your network.
• May include discretionary housing assistance.

Why Choose Wonderful?

Wonderful Citrus is part of The Wonderful Company, a privately held$6 billionglobal company dedicated to harvesting health and happiness around the world. Its iconic brands include FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos, Wonderful Seedless Lemons, Teleflora, and JUSTIN and Lewis Cellars wines. The Wonderful Company’s connection to consumers has health at its heart and giving back in its DNA.

Wonderful Citrus and The Wonderful Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and with opportunities for advancement. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories.