Manufacturing Shipping Supervisor- TX
Responsibility as a Shipping Supervisor:
Prepare and manage departmental budgets.
Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
Plan, develop, or implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
Prepare or direct preparation of correspondence, reports, and operations, maintenance, and safety manuals.
Issue shipping instructions and provide routing information to ensure that delivery times and locations are coordinated.
Confer with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as production, sales, records control, or purchasing.
Review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, or demand forecasts to estimate peak delivery periods and to issue work assignments.
Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
Schedule or monitor air or surface pickup, delivery, or distribution of products or materials.
Respond to customers' or shippers' questions and complaints regarding storage and distribution services.
Develop and document standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing, shipping, or salvaging products or materials.
Develop or implement plans for facility modification or expansion, such as equipment purchase or changes in space allocation or structural design.
Track and trace goods while they are enroute to their destinations, expediting orders when necessary.
Negotiate with carriers, warehouse operators, or insurance company representatives for services and preferential rates
Basic Skills
Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Social Skills
Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Teaching others how to do something.
Complex Skills
Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Technical Skills
Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a functional system.
Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
System Skills
Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Resource Management Skills
Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
Desktop Computer Skills
Databases - Using a computer application to manage large amounts of information, including creating and editing simple databases, inputting data, retrieving specific records, and creating reports to communicate the information.
Graphics - Working with pictures in graphics programs or other applications, including creating simple graphics, manipulating the appearance, and inserting graphics into other programs.
Internet - Using a computer application to create, manipulate, edit, and show virtual slide presentations.
Navigation - Using scroll bars, a mouse, and dialog boxes to work within the computer's operating system. Being able to access and switch between applications and files of interest.
Presentations - Navigating the Internet to find information, including the ability to open and configure standard browsers; use searches, hypertext references, and transfer protocols; and send and retrieve electronic mail (e-mail).
Spreadsheets - Using a computer application to enter, manipulate, and format text and numerical data; insert, delete, and manipulate cells, rows, and columns; and create and save worksheets, charts, and graphs.
Word Processing - Using a computer application to type text, insert pictures, format, edit, print, save, and retrieve word processing documents.
Work Activities
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
Conduct or attend staff meetings
Getting Information
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
Oversee execution of organizational or program policies
Confer with other departmental heads to coordinate activities
Direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
Assign work to staff or employees
Evaluate performance of employees or contract personnel
Orient new employees
Making Decisions and Solving Problems
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
Interacting With Computers
Monitoring and Controlling Resources
Purchase property management or maintenance equipment or supplies
Developing and Building Teams
Technology
Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
Inventory management software
Analytical or scientific software
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
Infor ERP Baan
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
Data base user interface and query software
Microsoft Access
Electronic mail software
Microsoft Outlook
Label making software
Office suite software
Microsoft Office software
Presentation software
Microsoft PowerPoint
Spreadsheet software
Word processing software