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Logistics Manager
Job Purpose
Plan, direct, and coordinate the storage and distribution operations within an organization or the activities of organizations that are engaged in storing and distributing materials and products.
Job Description
Tasks: |
- Arrange for necessary shipping documentation, and contact customs officials in order to effect release of shipments.
- Arrange for storage facilities when required.
- Confer with department heads to coordinate warehouse activities, such as production, sales, records control, and purchasing.
- Develop and document standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing, shipping, or salvaging products or materials.
- Develop and implement plans for facility modification or expansion, such as equipment purchase or changes in space allocation or structural design.
- Evaluate freight costs and the inventory costs associated with transit times in order to ensure that costs are appropriate.
- Evaluate locations for new warehouses and distribution networks in order to determine their potential usefulness.
- Examine invoices and shipping manifests for conformity to tariff and customs regulations.
- Examine products or materials in order to estimate quantities or weight and type of container required for storage or transport.
- Interview, select, and train warehouse and supervisory personnel.
- Issue shipping instructions and provide routing information to ensure that delivery times and locations are coordinated.
- Negotiate with carriers, warehouse operators and insurance company representatives for services and preferential rates.
- Plan, develop, and implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
- Prepare and manage departmental budgets.
- Review invoices, work orders, consumption reports, and demand forecasts in order to estimate peak delivery periods and to issue work assignments.
- Schedule and monitor air or surface pickup, delivery, or distribution of products or materials.
- Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
- Track and trace goods while they are en route to their destinations, expediting orders when necessary.
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Work Context
Requires sitting, Requires standing, Requires telephone conversations, Requires use of electronic mail, Requires writing letters and memos, Requires face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams, Requires contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise), Requires making decisions that impact the results of co-workers, clients or the company, Opportunity to make decisions without supervision, Requires being exact or highly accurate, Requires repeating the same physical activities or mental activities over and over, Requires meeting strict deadlines, Requires work with others in a group or team, Requires coordinating or leading others in accomplishing work activities, Includes responsibility for work outcomes and results, Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions, Job tasks are performed in close physical proximity to other people
Work Activities |
- adhere to safety procedures
- analyze operational or management reports or records
- use oral or written communication techniques
- develop safety regulations
- interview job applicants
- maintain safe work environment
- schedule work to meet deadlines
- prepare reports
- use negotiation techniques
- use weighing or measuring devices in transportation
- assign work to staff or employees
- conduct or attend staff meetings
- develop policies, procedures, methods, or standards
- hire, discharge, transfer, or promote workers
- evaluate performance of employees or contract personnel
- evaluate information from employment interviews
- monitor facilities or equipment
- answer customer or public inquiries
- inspect property to determine damages
- schedule air or surface pickup, delivery, or distribution of product
- direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
- arrange delivery schedules
- measure, weigh, or count products or materials
- examine documents for completeness, accuracy, or conformance to standards
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Qualifications
Education and Experience
Years of Experience: 5-7 years
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Skills Required:
Active Learning, Listening, coordination, instructing, coordination of space and equipment, instructing, decision making, material management, operations analysis, reading comprehension, good writing skills, time management, personal management, good math skills, comprehensive speaking ability, needs to be service oriented, management of financial resources and negotiation. Complex problem
Knowledge Required:
Complex Problem Solving, Quality control Administration and Management, computers, electronics, customer and personal service, English language, basic staff HR, Production, processing and public safety/security.
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