Stevedoring Operations Superintendent

cgb; Belle Chasse (LA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cooper Consolidated is a midstream stevedoring and logistics provider along the U.S. inland waterway system. We seek a location operations supervisor to oversee daily activities, ensure safety, efficiency and profitability, and maintain a positive community image.

You will supervise staff, coordinate logistics, manage inventory and maintenance, and ensure service quality while promoting safety and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Required education: high school diploma or equivalent.
• Preferred education: bachelor's degree.
• 3 years of experience in various sides of the business unit.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operations at the assigned location to ensure safe, efficient and profitable operations.
• Manage location staff, staffing, logistics, inventory, maintenance, efficiency, quality, and customer service.
• Lead, direct, and communicate safety programs; schedule and moderate monthly safety meetings.
• Develop and revise production forecasts with input from other responsible departments.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, safety and environmental regulations; enforce PPE and reporting.
• Coach trainees and participate in staff performance management and development.

Skills

Leadership

Staff development

Safety compliance

Operations management

Logistics planning

Communication

Problem solving

Time management

Negotiation

Crew scheduling

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Thank you for your interest in joining our team!

Cooper Consolidated is a balanced, asset-based provider of midstream stevedoring, barge, marine, and logistics services. With operations based along the lower Mississippi River between Southwest Pass and Baton Rouge, we provide cargo handling and movements throughout the U.S. inland waterway system. Our expert team ensures your important cargo is safely transported from origin to destination while making the experience as easy and worry-free as possible.

At Cooper Consolidated, our goal is to be the leader in the cargo handling industry. The key to this rests squarely with our people, and the backbone of how our people operate is our unique culture. The CC Way - 28 principles of our high-performing culture - describes the values, behaviors, and practices that are the foundation of this culture. It's what makes us a leader in our industry.

This job is primarily responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations at the assigned location ensuring safe, consistent, efficient and profitable operations. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, management of assigned location staff, staffing, logistics, inventory, maintenance, efficiency, quality, and customer service.

Additionally, the job incumbent will promote and maintain a positive image within their local communities.

In this job, you will:

• Actual responsibilities performed may vary dependent on daily needs and type of facility.
• Ultimately responsible for assigned location results; work with location management to ensure operations are optimally profitable; develop location benchmarks, report on location results and develop improvement plans for areas falling below benchmark.
• Supervise employees in all activities for all applicable operations at assigned location (s).
• Actively lead, direct, and communicate company's safety program to assigned staff; schedule and moderate monthly safety meeting, set safety goals and work with safety team to ensure they are achieved, monitor and perform safety behaviors and audits.
• Ensure employees perform all duties within compliance of OSHA, company safety, and environmental regulations; including wearing appropriate PPE for task being performed; and assist management to ensure environmental controls and procedures are appropriately managed (where applicable).
• Work with management team to develop and revise production forecasts with input from other responsible departments within the organization, where applicable.
• Oversee staffing and job development activities (e.g. staffing/scheduling, training, coaching, input on employee performance management and corrective actions,); develop, communicate, and manage staff performance expectations that align with company goals. Assist with and/or plan staffing schedules and direct work duties to assigned staff.
• Determine need for and schedule third party vendors as appropriate .
• Conduct quality internal audits as required; review, understand, notify management when needed.
• Ensure efficiencies are met for loading/unloading procedures by communicating with vessel officers and marine fleets.
• Ensure staff and facilities are compliant with all applicable state and federal regulations; take appropriate actions to correct/report incidents/findings where applicable.
• Actively participate in trainee program; coach trainees through their curriculum and plans/checklists.
• Other duties as assigned; including walk through, audits, inventory monitoring, maintenance needs, housekeeping as needed, etc.

Here's what you'll need to be considered:

Education

Required - High school diploma or equivalent. Preferred - Bachelor's degree.

Experience

Required - 3 years' experience in various sides of the specific business unit.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Oversee all logistics processes and optimizes transportation resources to ensure timely delivery execution.
• Working knowledge and understanding of location cost structures, safety, efficiency, preventive maintenance, OSHA, and EPA guidelines .
• Basic computer skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Effective leadership skills.
• Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of people within and outside the organization.
• Strong decision-making and conflict management skills.
• Strong trouble shooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong time management, organizational, and prioritization skills, with ability to remain flexible to changing priorities.
• Ability to perform job duties of any job supervised at assigned location.
• Good mechanical skills.
• Ability to understand, interpret, and follow all operating and emergency procedures.
• Ability to effective coach, mentor, and lead staff to accomplish assignments.
• Ability to work effective

Physical Demands & Requirements

Heavy work. Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of