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The Shipping Supervisor position will play a pivotal role in our distribution operations by ensuring that all shipments are timely, complete, and accurate. He/she will be expected to regularly work cross-functionally with multiple departments across the organization to streamline processes and optimize output. The Shipping Supervisor will direct and coordinate activities of the Shipping Department by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors.
What You’ll Do
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Provides guidance and leadership to subordinate leaders to help them effectively plan work, direct team activities, and establish shipping priorities.
- Actively drives and ensures all team members are engaged and focused on creating a safe work environment.
- Establishes delivery and quality control standards and develops and administers budget and cost controls to effectively deliver products and monitor achievement of profitability goals.
- Provides shipping decision-making information by calculating delivery, labor, and material costs; reviewing delivery schedules; estimating future requirements.
- Improve the operational systems, processes, and policies in support of WWS’s mission — specifically, support better management reporting, information flow and management, business process and organizational planning.
- Develops and implements policies and procedures to meet customer needs and corporate objectives regarding delivery service.
- Motivates and encourages all team members to actively participate in 5S initiatives, achieving/sustaining world class levels. Develops all team members and provides the proper training and tools to achieve quality at the source across the delivery methods.
- Establishes lean management and Theory of Constraints practices and procedures, specifically through Leader Standard Work, Visual Controls, buffer and bottleneck management, and daily accountability.
- Coaches and encourages active participation by all team members in problem solving activities helping them develop their skills utilizing Lean tools.
- Identifies specific operator knowledge/skill requirements and communicates recruitment and training needs to Human Resources and Workforce Development.
- Helps develop or revise standard operational and working practices and verifies that subordinate leaders require worker compliance with standards.
- Leads/facilitates continuous improvement activities to drive improvement in safety, quality, delivery and cost through Kaizen and other world class techniques.
- Drives and assures active team member involvement in 5S programs.
- Plans shipping operations, ensuring priorities, sequences and operational schedules for delivery products in accordance with company practices.
- Reviews delivery and operating reports to help determine operational, delivery, and maintenance problems.
- Confers with subordinate leaders and co-workers in cross functional leadership.
- Researches and helps develop short- and long-term improvements to delivery processes to maximize efficiency, improve throughput and maintain safety.
- Provides positive and negative feedback to employees verbally and in writing. Documents feedback through Confirmation of Conversations (COC).
- Conducts or participates in annual performance reviews for employees.
- Ensure all drivers and vehicles adhere to Department of Transportation (DOT) compliance requirements.
Who You Are
- Delivery experience with at least five years at the leadership level preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, or Manufacturing Engineer preferred.
- Proficient in MS Office (Word/Excel)
- A strategic planner with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and strong operational focus.
- An energetic, forward-thinking, and creative individual with high ethical standards and an appropriate professional image.
- Experience in lean practices and world class best practices
- Ability to analyze data and develop data-based solutions.
- Must be able to work without supervision and manage under stress to meet deadlines.
- Budget development and oversight experience.
- Ability to motivate and lead teams of salaried and hourly leaders and team members.
- Ability to develop, coach, and mentor team members.
- Excellent written and verbal skills to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, with customers and suppliers.
Who We Are
At PGT Innovations, we may build and support high-quality, innovative windows and doors, but every day holds opportunities for us to do so much more – from building stronger teams through leading, supporting, mentoring, and collaborating, to fostering better relationships with our customers.
WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT
Every day we look for opportunities to grow and achieve greatness – together.
This isn’t an “everyone for themselves” environment. Here, we look out for each other. We help each other. We prop each other up during challenging times.
Because inventing, building, and delivering the future of windows and doors is not a one-person job. It takes all of us.
- Our collaborative group.
- Our understanding family.
- Our strong team.
Working together to inspire greater opportunity for our customers, our community, and our team members.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation
- Career advancement opportunities
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee stock purchase plan
- 401k matching
- Profit sharing
- Paid time off
- Volunteer time off
PGT Innovations is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or
physical disability, marital/family/caregiver status, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local low. PGT Innovations also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories.
