Steer and coordinate all logistic and shipping activities in the warehouse. Create a safe working environment and stimulate and supervise the safety behaviour of the staff. Main responsibilities are directly related to the process of transferring products to Sonae Arauco customers, meeting the high standards of our company towards the highest service level (OTIF) while maximizing the unit's profitability.
Main Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with safety rules and stimulate safe working behavior of the logistics staff.
- Lead and guide the logistic staff, monitor the work done, in order to ensure the framing and motivation of employees to meet the overall goals, promoting their development, productivity and alignment with values and culture of Sonae Arauco.
- Follow the scheduling plan of the plant and represent the Supply Chain in the plant daily meetings.
- Organize and control optimum levels of finished product and semi-finished product in the warehouse, ensuring correct location and identification of the products as well as production and customer supply.
- Coordinate the dispatch of products, ensuring compliance with loading times and quantities, seeking to optimize truck loading costs without any negative impact on customer service.
- In collaboration with the inventory management team, avoid stock ruptures and minimize slow-moving and obsolete inventory.
- Ensure that all needed internal and external transport documents are available in time, containing the right information.
- Collaborate with the production planning and transport planning teams to achieve the best operational efficiency in line with customer service and quality targets.
- Collaborate with the maintenance department in defining maintenance plans for the equipment allocated to the warehouse area.
- Initiate and lead local continuous improvement projects to increase safety, efficiency, service, and quality.
- Collaborate with the local HR team to fulfill staffing and training requirements of the logistics team.
- Ensure stock level verification and supervise the implementation of the internal logistics/storage policy for products and packaging material.
- Confirm in the system the status of the loads not made the previous day and search for possible delay reasons.
- Ensure the registration of the activity to enable correct analysis of logistics indicators and their action plan for correction/optimization.
- Ensure that load securing and customs requirements and guidelines are met.
- Follow-up and serve as the main point of contact to all carriers and logistics providers in the region, always in alignment with the group transport team.
Minimum Requirements
Academic Requirements: Degree in Supply Chain / Engineering / Logistics / Management.
Experience and Skills:
- Leadership experience in a highly operational environment.
- Knowledge of industry plants fundamentals/industrial production.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Logistics & Warehousing.
- APICS Certification or similar further education (preferential).
- Analytical and problem-solving skills; Negotiation skills; Team management.
- Knowledge of Logistic and warehousing management tools: SAP, WMS.
- Result-oriented and a team player.
Professional Experience: Several years of experience in an industrial and multinational business environment and leading larger operational teams.
Language Requirements: English (Fluent or Native).
IT Knowledge: SAP and good proficiency in MS Office programs.
Required Job Behavioural Attributes
- Business Acumen – Understanding of business and financial principles.
- Critical Thinking – Lateral thinking, analysis and evaluation of information.
- Planning & Organising – Sets priorities for resource use.
- Persuasion – Ability to convince others effectively.
- Negotiation – Self-confidence and flexibility in negotiations.
- Problem Solving & Analysis – Ability to resolve issues effectively.
- Verbal & Written Communication – Organizes information for presentation.
- Numeracy Competence – Ability to accurately calculate results.
- Flexibility – Adapts to additional job requirements successfully.
- Strategic – Holistic overview of threats and opportunities.
- Leadership – Encourages ideas and motivates others.
- Energy – High energy level and multitasking ability.
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