Shipping Supervisor Distribution

Job Description

About Us

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Position Summary:

Responsible for training and advising the respective assigned distribution center department to perform their jobs according to the accurate standard operating procedures (SOP’s).

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Organizes the staff and workload to meet or exceed distribution productivity performance standards for Shipping, Receiving, Put Away, Packing or Inventory Control. Develops daily work schedules as workload situation demands. Coordinates all warehouse activities to provide a smooth and efficient flow of work. Provides leadership to a group of team members, who provide timely solutions to customer needs. Participates in candidate selection. Trains, evaluates, recommends and delivers disciplinary action when issues such as attendance, performance, safety, or policy violation arise. Conducts yearly performance reviews and feedback sessions with employees as needed to discuss metrics and performance related issues, prior to issues becoming increasingly serious. Supervises staff in a manner that is consistent with our culture, which is based on four values: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement and on open communication. Actively seeks development opportunities for team members. Promotes a friendly environment, good morale and collaboration among team members. Reconciles and approves time detail for employees in e-time system.
• Resolves customer service (internal/external) issues via phone, fax and e-mail and first person meetings, at times with other departments and applying whatever resources necessary; use the same avenues to strengthen business relationships. Ensures that committed orders ship on time and that carriers stay in sync with scheduled pick-up commitments. Maintains safety standards and training in the department; ensures that the building is maintained in a clean and safe manner and that inventories and equipment are accurately protected against theft, fire and other hazards that may cause loss or damage. Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree required in Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related field, or equivalent combination of experience and education is preferred. Must possess a high school diploma.
• Experience supervising multiple functions within the distribution center, including but not limited to; Inbound (receiving), Production, Packing, and Shipping Departments. Must possess the leadership and supervisory skills be able to lead, coach and empower a large group employees along with excellent social skills to relate well to employees, peers, various levels of management, and have a strong customer relationships. Must possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills to be able to evaluate issues as they occur and respond to issues with creative problem solving.
• “Big Box” experience leading in a large distribution center. Must be able to lift, carry, pull, and push up to 40 - 70 pounds frequently and 100 pounds occasionally with or without accommodation.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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