Seasonal Operations Supervisor

About the Role

Join us for an exciting short-term opportunity during our peak season! In this dynamic role, you'll play a key part in supervising daily and weekly operations within your assigned area. You'll have the chance to lead, motivate, and develop our workforce while ensuring we meet customer and site requirements. You'll engage in continuous improvement initiatives and help foster a positive work culture by upholding company policies. This is a fantastic chance to make a meaningful impact in a fast-paced environment!

Key Responsibilities

• Direct the necessary daily activity to ensure a safe, secure, clean and fair work environment for associates.
• Ensure the associates have proper access to the necessary tools to perform their assigned duties and that the tools are routinely inspected and maintained.
• Organize and lead the focus on improved productivity levels by first improving processes and secondly stressing the efficiency of associate work.
• Collaborate with regional sites to share in safety, labor sharing, and best practice initiatives.
• Plan, manage, and adjust the daily workload and staffing to minimize unplanned overtime.
• Ensure shift/daily/weekly workload planning and volume forecasting routines are accomplished (i.e., staffing, equipment, space).
• Ensure company policies are communicated, applied, and enforced (i.e., safety, accounting, operational, regulatory, and administrative).
• Maximize quality and productivity by understanding job standards for each function, and evaluating performance variances to identify root cause and corrective action.
• Effectively communicate work task Standard Operating Procedures, convey key information during preshift meetings and ensure appropriate shift hand-offs.
• Provide a professional environment in relation to external customers and vendors such as drivers, dispatchers, and customer representatives.
• Execute daily customer/vendor contract requirements and identify accessorial activity (work outside commercial contracts) and ensure necessary documentation.
• Ensure inventory integrity by timely and accurate receiving, picking, shipping, and inventory management.
• Participate in the collection of performance measurements consistent with customer, vendor, and site requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, preferred.
• Operations background.
• 1-2 years logistics industry experience, preferred.
• 0-3 years experience in lead/supervisor/management role.