Shipping Supervisor

Dogwood Industries LLC; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 53,726 - 61,992; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

401(k)

Paid vacation & holidays

Employee Referral Bonus

Job summary

Dogwood Industries is seeking a Shipping Supervisor to lead the shipping team in our Everett, WA factory. You will oversee production flow, coordinate loadouts, ensure quality, safety, and on-time shipments of custom prefabricated buildings and components.

Ideal candidates bring strong leadership, experience directing shipping operations in a manufacturing setting, and a commitment to safety, detail, and continuous improvement. This is an onsite, full-time role with competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Ability to execute and train advanced shipping and loadout tasks including rigging, bolting, and verifying panels for shipment.
• Ability to direct crew, following load plans and bolt‑up requirements, making real‑time decisions when needed to ensure safety and shipment integrity.
• Ability to perform and train quality control checks, verifying foam installation, ridge plates, flashing, and bolting are correct.
• Ability to direct the operation of all non‑specialized metal working equipment
• Understanding of how to implement visual inspection criteria in pre‑QC work checks

Responsibilities

• Directs shipping team to complete projects on time and within budget.
• Mentors crew members to achieve personal and team improvement.
• Ensures quality assurance by meeting QC hold points and proactively addressing issues.
• Develops and adjusts work plans based on drawings and scheduling changes.
• Upholds safety standards and applies Cardinal Rules of Safety in daily tasks

Skills

Shipping & loadout

Crew direction

Quality control

Safety compliance

Rigging & bolting

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Description

Dogwood Industries – Who We Are

Build your future with Dogwood Industries!

Dogwood Industries is at the forefront of designing and manufacturing Pre‑engineered Panelized Relocatable Metal Buildings, delivering industry leading solutions for mission‑critical projects across industrial and DoD markets. Through a precise blend of manufacturing and construction, we enable high‑performance, rapidly deployable structures that keep critical missions moving forward. Our team provides leadership in the design process that transforms the way our clients work by delivering buildings as equipment solutions in harsh environments around the world. If you are motivated by innovation, thrive in a fast‑paced setting, and want to be part of a team that is revolutionizing the building industry, we’d love to speak with you!

General Job Description

Dogwood Industries is seeking a Shipping Supervisor to join our team. The successful candidate will efficiently and accurately direct the shipping team in the construction of custom prefabricated buildings, structures and custom components in a factory environment with attention to the shipment of Dogwood’s product. The Shipping Supervisor is responsible for the oversight of the shipping team including production, crew direction, quality assurance, work planning and safety.

Duties & Responsibilities

Production Volume and Quality:

• Completes projects on time and under budget
• Incurs less than 2% NCRs to hours worked

Crew direction:

• Directs self to complete goals daily
• Mentors crew members to achieve personal and team improvement
• Assigns the right worker to the right task

Quality Assurance:

• Arranges workflow to meet all QC hold points
• Takes responsibility for quality of work
• Proactively catches and eliminates quality issues before they impact work

Work Planning:

• Reviews drawings and breaks job into steps
• Participates in development of work plan and executes work plan
• Adjusts work plan as required when resources or schedule changes

Safety:

• Takes responsibility for the safe execution of the work
• Uses JSA’s
• Understands and participates in the Cardinal Rules of Safety

Requirements

• Ability to execute and train advanced shipping and loadout tasks including rigging, bolting, and verifying panels for shipment.
• Ability to direct crew, following load plans and bolt‑up requirements, making real‑time decisions when needed to ensure safety and shipment integrity.
• Ability to perform and train quality control checks, verifying foam installation, ridge plates, flashing, and bolting are correct.
• Ability to direct the operation of all non‑specialized metal working equipment
• Understanding of how to implement visual inspection criteria in pre‑QC work checks

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have full range of mobility in upper and lower body, able to reach overhead, able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, squatting; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance for extended periods of time. Be able to lift, pull and push material and equipment to complete assigned job tasks. Be able to lift 50 pounds of weight throughout assigned workday if required. The employee will be exposed to shop elements such as noise, dust, fumes and odors. This position requires physical activity performing somewhat strenuous daily activities in a primarily production environment. The work environment characteristics here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Compensation

$39.00 to $45.00 hourly, depending on experience and qualifications.

Benefits

• Health Benefits, including medical, dental and vision
• Company paid and supplemental life insurance
• Short‑term disability
• Long‑term disability
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Paid vacation, paid sick leave and paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement plan, with employer match
• Employee Referral Bonus Program

Qualifications

• High school diploma, general education degree or vocational degree
• Ability to read and interpret plans and shop drawings

Applicant Notes

• Applicants must provide complete work history with employer references for last three to five years
• All employees are subject to a pre‑employment background check and pre‑employment and random drug testing. Due to working in / being exposed to a safety sensitive environment, THC testing will occur as part of all drug screens.

Application Assistance

If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation in the application or hiring process, please contact Dogwood’s HR department at [phone] or [e-mail].

Location

This is an onsite position at the Dogwood Factory Office at 3200 35th Ave NE, Everett, WA 98201.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.

Disclaimer: Although the Company has attempted to accurately and thoroughly describe this position, the Company reserves the right to change the same, including to change, add to or subtract from the duties outlined, within the sole discretion of the Company, at any time, with or without advance notice. In order to meet company deadlines, work in excess of 40 hours per week may be required from time to time.

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