Shipping Manager

Role: The Shipping Manager directs and facilitates all daily shipping, staging, yard management, and finished goods loading operations. This position ensures that large, sensitive panel bundles are safely loaded onto flatbed trailers and accompanied by accurate bills of lading (BOLs) and packing slips. The manager supervises and supports shipping personnel, coordinates with production planning to match manufacturing output with truck arrivals and manages carrier relationships to minimize freight costs and transit damage. Responsibilities · Load Planning & Execution: Direct the staging and loading of oversized and heavy insulated metal panel bundles onto flatbeds, step-decks, or enclosed trailers, ensuring proper weight distribution and load security. · Damage Prevention & Quality Control: Inspect finished panel bundles prior to loading to verify correct materials loaded, absence of damages and proper strapping to the trailer. · Documentation & Compliance: Generate and audit Bills of Lading (BOLs), commercial invoices, and Department of Transportation (DOT) or oversized-load paperwork. · Team Supervision: Hire, train, schedule, and mentor shipping department team. · Carrier & Fleet Coordination: Coordinate pickup times with flatbed carriers and customer job-site representatives; resolve freight claims, back-orders, or delayed shipments promptly. · Inventory & Yard Management: Track finished-goods yard inventory, staging lanes, and packaging supplies to prevent bottlenecks. · Budget & KPI Tracking: Monitor freight budgets, on-time delivery (OTD) rates, loading labor efficiency, and damage-in-transit metrics. Requirements: · Education: High school diploma required; Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, or Business Administration preferred. · Experience: Minimum 3 to 5+ years of shipping, warehouse, or logistics management experience within a heavy manufacturing, steel, lumber, or construction-material environment. · Technical Skills: Proficiency with ERP/WMS software, and Microsoft Office (Excel). · Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with flatbed freight logistics, oversized/permit load requirements, and DOT regulations. · Physical & Operational Skills: Ability to operate forklifts and overhead cranes (or certify staff), work in a fast-paced industrial plant environment, and stand/walk for extended periods. · Soft Skills: Strong leadership, multitasking, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills with production and sales teams. Trimo North America is bringing a bold, fast-growing manufacturing operation to Mt Pleasant TN—and we’re just getting started. We design and manufacture high-performance Insulated Metal Panels (IMP’s) for cold storage, commercial/industrial, and architectural buildings, giving us a front-row seat to some of the most exciting construction and infrastructure growth happening across North America today. We are part of Recticel Group, a global leader in insulation technology, giving us the resources, engineering expertise, and international track record of an industry powerhouse—combined with the speed, agility, and hands-on energy of a company building something new. It’s the best of both worlds: stability you can count on, and momentum you can feel. Pay: $85,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year Benefits: 401(k) Dental insurance Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Vision insurance Application Question(s): Are you able to work in Mount Pleasant, TN? Work Location: In person

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