Director Logistics Europe Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This position is responsible for the following: Other duties may be assigned.

1. Responsible for the safe execution of all logistics, transportation, warehousing, and material movement activities supporting ship newbuilding and major marine construction programs in accordance with the company's overall safety goals, objectives and policies.
2. Plan, direct, and coordinate international and domestic logistics for major vessel equipment, machinery, systems, components, and materials from suppliers to Gulf Copper facilities and designated Gulf Coast ports and delivery locations.
3. Develop and execute logistics plans for major equipment shipments originating in Europe and other international locations, including ocean freight, port handling, customs coordination, inland transportation, heavy haul, and final delivery to the shipyard.
4. Coordinate with suppliers, freight forwarders, ocean carriers, customs brokers, port terminals, stevedores, trucking companies, heavy-haul contractors, and other logistics service providers to ensure safe and timely delivery of equipment and materials.
5. Establish and maintain a comprehensive shipment tracking and expediting system covering all vendor shipments originating throughout the United States and globally.
6. Monitor purchase order shipping requirements, promised ship dates, actual ship dates, vessel or flight information, estimated arrival dates, customs status, inland transportation, and final receipt for all critical shipments.
7. Provide accurate and timely shipment status reporting to the Supply Chain Manager – Newbuilding, Project Management, Production Planning, Engineering, Production, and other stakeholders.
8. Identify transportation, customs, port, carrier, supplier, weather, or other logistics risks that could affect project schedules and develop mitigation and recovery plans before schedule impact occurs.
9. Coordinate closely with Procurement and Expediting personnel to ensure supplier packaging, preservation, marking, documentation, export preparation, and shipment readiness meet purchase order and project requirements.
10. Ensure international shipments comply with applicable import/export, customs, tariff, documentation, security, hazardous-material, environmental, and transportation requirements.
11. Coordinate customs clearance and import documentation with qualified customs brokers and internal personnel to minimize delays, demurrage, detention, storage charges, and other avoidable logistics costs.
12. Plan transportation for oversized, overweight, high-value, fragile, or specialized shipbuilding equipment, including route surveys, permits, escorts, lifting plans, specialized trailers, barges, cranes, and other handling requirements as applicable.
13. Develop logistics schedules aligned with the newbuilding Integrated Master Schedule, production sequence, required-on-site dates, installation dates, and major construction milestones.
14. Manage receiving operations to ensure incoming equipment and material are properly identified, documented, inspected, entered into applicable ERP and inventory systems, and routed to the correct storage or production location.
15. Direct all newbuilding warehousing activities, including warehouse layout, controlled storage, outdoor laydown areas, preservation, material identification, segregation, inventory accuracy, security, and material custody.
16. Ensure major equipment and long-lead material are preserved and stored in accordance with manufacturer, purchase order, quality, and project requirements until released for installation.
17. Direct internal yard logistics supporting newbuilding operations, including material movement, staging, kitting, point-of-use delivery, crane coordination, forklifts, transporters, trailers, and movement of equipment between warehouses, laydown areas, shops, blocks, and vessels.
18. Develop material-flow and staging plans that support Block Steel and Hot Outfitting, Cold Outfitting, erection, testing, commissioning, and other production activities without creating congestion or unnecessary material handling.
19. Coordinate with Production Planning and shop-floor planners to ensure equipment, material, kits, and consumables are delivered to the required work location in accordance with weekly and daily production priorities.
20. Maintain accurate inventory location and material status information so project and production personnel can readily determine the location, condition, custody, and availability of required equipment and materials.
21. Establish performance metrics for international and domestic shipment status, on-time delivery, customs clearance, freight cost, warehouse accuracy, material damage, preservation, and internal material delivery performance.
22. Monitor freight, port, customs, warehousing, heavy-haul, and material-handling costs and implement cost-control measures consistent with project schedule and equipment protection requirements.
23. Manage logistics contractors and service providers to ensure compliance with company safety, quality, schedule, security, insurance, and commercial requirements.
24. Coordinate receiving inspection, damaged-freight reporting, shortage reporting, nonconforming material control, freight claims, and corrective actions with Quality, Procurement, suppliers, carriers, and insurers as required.
25. Develop contingency logistics plans for critical equipment, including alternate ports, carriers, transportation routes, expedited freight, temporary storage, and other recovery options where schedule risk warrants.
26. Coordinate inter-facility and waterfront movements, including barge transportation and transfers between Gulf Copper facilities or other fabrication locations when required by the newbuilding program.
27. Maintain complete and auditable logistics records, including bills of lading, packing lists, commercial invoices, customs documents, delivery receipts, freight claims, shipment status records, warehouse transactions, and related correspondence.
28. Develop warehouse, laydown, equipment, staffing, and material-handling resource plans necessary to support current and future newbuilding workload.
29. Provide leadership, motivation, guidance, performance evaluations, coaching, and professional development for warehouse, receiving, logistics, and material-handling personnel.
30. Promote a culture of accountability, shipment visibility, material stewardship, teamwork, continuous improvement, and operational excellence throughout all logistics and warehousing activities.

Required Education & Experience:

1. Bachelor of Science degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
2. Minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible logistics, warehousing, transportation, materials management, or supply chain experience in shipbuilding, vessel construction, heavy industrial construction, offshore fabrication, or marine project environments.
3. Demonstrated experience managing receiving, warehousing, material handling, inventory control, transportation, and production material flow for large, complex construction or manufacturing programs.
4. APICS/ASCM, CLTD, CSCP, Lean, logistics, or other relevant professional certification preferred.

Working Conditions:

1. Regular exposure to all weather conditions, especially hot, humid and / or rainy weather, combined with regular work time indoors in environmentally controlled conditions.

Necessary Equipment Operation:

1. Computer systems and standard office equipment.
2. Enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse management, inventory control, materials requirements planning (MRP), and shipyard production management systems.
3. Material-handling and transportation equipment sufficient to understand and manage safe operation, including forklifts, cranes, transporters, trucks, trailers, and related equipment.
4. Personal protective equipment (PPE) required in warehouse, production, and waterfront areas.

Special Skills:

1. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
2. Ability to behave decisively.
3. Ability to grasp complex concepts easily.
4. Pay attention to minute detail.
5. Excellent planning, negotiating, organizing, and logistics coordination skills, including freight, warehouse, and service-provider management.
6. Ability to motivate entire workforce, direct reports, colleagues, and others.
7. Patient and self-confidence.
8. Ability to operate in a systematic and logical manner.
9. Strong knowledge of receiving, warehousing, inventory control, preservation, material handling, kitting, staging, and point-of-use delivery.
10. Ability to establish priorities and coordinate complex material movements in support of changing production requirements.
11. Good judgment.
12. High performance and a strong team player.
13. Commitment to company values.

* An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Know Your Rights. If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan or policy statement, please email: hrcorp@gulfcopper.com. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail: hrcorp@gulfcopper.com.