Warehouse and Shipping Coordinator
Position Description:
The Warehouse and Shipping Coordinator guides overall operations in the Warehouse. The Coordinator is responsible for overseeing a wide variety of warehouse activities including shipping and receiving of finishing and/or finished goods and maintaining inventory and associated records. The position is a Position Level (PL) 5.
Reporting:
The position reports to the Warehouse Manager
Duties and Responsibilities:
Major areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to:
- Facilitate best practices in the area of safety, health, and housekeeping of the department.
- Coordinate daily equipment maintenance.
- Work with area managers to plan, schedule, and execute production and maintenance activities
- Work with the department manager to execute the policies and goals of the department
- Work with paper machine, finishing, and customer service team members to meet customer order requirement and to ensure smooth operations between the groups. Cross-train in other disciplines. Learn all customer service jobs.
- Setup layout & space management; procedures such as SOP, 5s.
- Manage stock control and ensure inventory accuracy, including: storage, retrieval and timely delivery of goods; shipment loading & transferring; document recording and data entry into system.
- Constantly plan out all warehouse resources and activities in relation to company objectives and set targets.
- Create / implement plans to assist development and training of work force.
- Implement cost reduction principle in all aspects of warehouse transactions and activities.
- Manage and minimize carrier delays and demurrage.
- Manage the Returns and Diversions page.
- Work with Logistics to keep costs to serve down. Best Mode of transportation.
- Filing and Records keeping of shipping documents.
- Generate daily customer service report.
Skills and Specifications:
- Ability to act decisively
- Excellent people engagement skills. Ability to motivate workforce.
- Patience and good judgment
- Demonstrated ability to drive for results
- Experienced warehouse and shipping background preferred but not required
- Excellent organizational skills
- Proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills required
- Working knowledge of PPR Omega and willingness to learn and utilize and new MES system
- Experience dealing with Carriers
Education and Qualification:
- University degree in industrial engineering, business management, logistics, supply chain or process engineering preferred but not required.