Shipping / Warehouse Mgr

JOB SUMMARY To ensure the timely and daily shipment of product to our customers while planning and communicating specific objectives to ensure Departmental goals are met. RESPONSIBILITIES Provides supervision and direction to Shipping and Receiving personnel. Ensures that department personnel are properly trained and motivated. Promotes and enforces company business practices. Promotes and enforces company safety policies. Assists in negotiations concerning freight issues with vendors. Ensures all vendors follow company vendor requirements. Reviews all vendors periodically to track performance with regards to service. Ensures finished product is shipped timely and all necessary paperwork is completed. Ensures received raw materials and supplies are counted, inspected, put away, and all necessary paperwork is completed. Establishes, implements, and enforces proper paperwork procedures are in place, completed, and maintained. Ensures employee record keeping is accurate and timely; to include timecards, absence request, employee evaluations, personnel record changes, transfers, progressive discipline, etc. Takes correcting action and employee progressive discipline for unacceptable conduct and attendance issues. Performs ongoing and annual performance reviews. Ensures communications concerning shipping and receiving activities are relayed to all parties. Determines training needs. Ensures all employees are trained on safe operation of specific equipment or tasks before starting work on projects and equipment. Reads, understands, and enforces the company's Accident Prevention Plan. Ensures accidents and near misses are documented and reported on “Employee and Supervisor Report of Accident” forms and forwarded to Safety Management. Provides information to management suggesting changes to work practices or equipment that will improve employee safety. Sets a good example for employees by following established safety rules and attending required training. Ensures that all employees are supervised for compliance with safety rules contained in or referenced by the company safety program. Coordinates with shipping personnel and sales staff to ensure prompt and timely delivery of goods. Ensures that required accurate daily and/or weekly inventory cycle counts for finished goods, raw materials, and pallets/crates are completed. Performs required accurate semi-annual and annual inventory. Performs the tasks of filing and the preparation of UPS and Federal Express shipments using specific UPS and Federal express computer systems. Coordinates the computerized shipping and billing process of all customer invoices. Includes delivery note packing lists, invoices, and pro forma invoices. Prepares Bill of Ladings and coordinates the necessary data to physically ship outbound freight, including daily contact with local freight transporters both by telephone and each individual website. Ensures that labels are typed and verified for accuracy. Ensures that stock locations for finished goods have been put away on previous day are verified. Ensures that warehouse duties including being fork-lift certified, wrapping, labeling, strapping, etc. are completed before end of day. Completes all documentation for export shipments. Ensures the organization of pictures of outgoing shipments. Keeps accurate End of Day reports on orders and boxes out per day. Learns all other department office stations to ensure the smooth working operation of the office when needed for vacation relief. Demonstrates a thorough and complete understating of the document control requirements for procedures, instructions, guidelines and forms that control or affect the functions of the Shipping/Receiving departments. Informs Management of all issues that may require immediate action or attention from a higher level of the organization. Ensures that certifications are created and reviewed for accuracy as directed. Prepares and checks necessary receipts and records. Maintain…

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