Description POSITION SUMMARY: This position supervises warehouse and traffic functions for the Newport, TN plant to provide on time and cost-effective delivery for customers, and ensures accurate and timely production support, shipping, and receiving within a safe environment. This is a Safety Sensitive Position. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: • Conducts Green Area Meetings and maintains appropriate documentation; • Responsible for cycle counting machine locations each shift; • Directs and monitors activities for special projects; • Responsible for calling designated carriers, providing them with appropriate shipment information; • Responsible for checking hard allocation at beginning and end of shift and notifies manager of issues or shortages; • Ensures continuity of support for manufacturing; • Ensures resin/silo unloading procedures are strictly followed to maintain accurate, compliant, and sufficient resin inventory to meet production needs. Alert management if issues or shortages are encountered; • Ensures bin checks are done in a timely manner, and year-end inventory is 100% accurate; • Ensures adequate crewing to meet departmental responsibilities and company requirements; • Reports railcar taps to vendors the day of which they occur, ensuring all required taps are complete by month end; • Responsible for notifying railroad of required changes in railcar line-up on siding; • Responsible for obtaining control numbers for and performing RMA’s and PO receipts; • Responsible for obtaining freight quotes; • Monitors employee performance and reports findings to manager; • Loads and unloads trailers for shipments and receipts; • Secures trailers with dock locks or wheel chocks before entering with a forklift; removes or unlocks when loading/unloading is complete; • Responsible for material handler duties, as Shipping and Receiving workload dictates; • Assists with training department new hires; • Assists with shipping office operations; • Communicates directly with night shift employees, including prioritization of overnight schedule; • Discards scrap in bailer, changes bailer when full; • Ensures all orders ship in a timely, accurate manner through interaction with appropriate company departments, warehouse personnel, customers and carriers; • Ensures daily and weekly logs are completed in a timely manner; • Installs and removes dock plates, opens and closes dock doors and ensure they remain locked for security and safety reasons; • Label, stretch wrap, stage and ship orders in compliance with customer requirements and PHX procedures; • Loads and unloads shuttle trailers and trailers to outside warehouses and other PHX facilities using appropriate transactions; • Loads and unloads trailers for shipments and receipts; • Maintains up to date knowledge of export documentation requirements and prepare documents; • Maintains staging lanes using forklift; • Makes production boxes using the box maker or using the tape gun; loads box maker with boxes; • Monitor facilities to ensure compliance with Safety, FDA, OSHA, Department of Homeland Security; other certification agency and PHX requirements; • Monitors and supervises maintenance programs regarding all warehouse equipment and facilities. • Moves product from production floor and loads onto trucks or moves to designated warehouse location; • Operate forklift, clamp truck in a safe manner. Charge and water forklift batteries; • Performs RTI’s for color, liner and WIP caps returned to the warehouse from production; • Prepares for customer audits/visits and assists in implementing appropriate recommendations; • Prepares weekly inventory report for purchasing; • Prints ship sets, bills of lading and labels; • Processes customer returns; • Receives railcars into the IQRF system, unloads railcar resin into appropriate silos and notify manager of issues or shortages; • Repacks cartons; • Responds to telephone queries, receives and sends fax information; • Utilize IQFR transactions for all receipts, movements and issues of raw materials and packaging components, staging and shipping of customer orders, warehouse transfers, or customer returns. OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES: • Interacts with customers for questions or problem resolution; • Serves on committees; • Responsible for following all Food Safety related policies and procedures; • Responsible for enforcing and following all Safety Rules, policies, procedures and work instructions; • Other responsibilities, as required. Requirements EDUCATION AND TRAINING: • High School diploma or GED. EXPERIENCE: • 3-5 years’ experience in a supervisory role; • 2-3 years’ experience in warehouse setting; • Forklift experience. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: • Simple Grasping (40-70%) - filing; handling paper; • Firm Grasping (40-70%) - filing; handling paper; • Fine Manipulation (at >70%) - phone; expediting orders. EQUIPMENT USED: • Forklift, personal computer, laptop, printer, copier, calculator, telephone, clamp truck, fax machine, scissors, radios. CONTACTS: • Management, Maintenance, Production, Customer Service, Vendors. SUPERVISION/BACKUP: • Warehouse Manager