Logistics Supervisor

The Logistics Supervisor is a combination role of production planning/scheduling and warehouse supervising.

The Logistics Supervisor will plan and prepare schedules, control work-in-process and finished goods inventories in accordance with customer requirements, establish inventory levels and economic production quantities, monitor production results and input material availability to determine required production schedule changes, optimize equipment utilization and recommend capacity adjustments as necessary, publish production schedules as required and provide regular reporting for inventory levels and shipping lead times, coordinates raw material requirements with appropriate purchasing personnel.

The Logistics Supervisor is also responsible for overseeing a wide variety of warehouse activities including shipping and receiving raw materials and/or finished goods and maintaining inventory and associated records. People management responsibilities include training, planning and assigning daily work, addressing performance issues, and resolving problems.

Join an organization that believes that every employee owns a piece of our bold growth goals and ultimate success. We are a market-leading innovator that has placed on the Fortune 500. Owens Corning is devoted to delivering sustainable solutions across our three business segments while striving to ensure our people and products make the world a better place. We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe. A holistic sense of community exists across our entire organization as our talent grows globally. We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people. Our desire to make an impactful difference in the world flows from top down to all levels of the organization. By being a company that instills pride within each and every employee, we aspire to build market-leading businesses; global in scope - human in scale.

Reports to: Plant Controller

Span of Control: 4 Hourly Direct Reports

1. Livethe Safety stand, adhere to the safety responsibilities.

2. Production Planning/Scheduling

• Prepare production schedules to meet customer requirements, maintain appropriate inventories, and optimize equipment utilization.
• Publish production schedules as required.
• Monitor production results and input material availability to determine required production schedule changes.
• Provide regular reporting for inventory levels and shipping lead times.
• Coordinate raw material requirements with appropriate purchasing personnel.
• Monitor equipment utilization and recommend capacity adjustments as necessary.
• Communicate scheduled delivery date and any changes as required.
• Communicate inventory levels and issues with corporate representatives.
• Work with technical teams to conduct and coordinate product trials.
• Troubleshoot production/labeling issues as needed.
• Work with customer service to meet customer requests.
• Work with production schedulers of internal customer plants to manage inventories and eliminate product loss due to life issues.
• Assist production through special projects as needed.
• Assist SAP Local Data Steward with routings.
• Meet customer needs simultaneously with plant needs.
• Build a reliable partnership with operations.
• Coordinate and change as needed all customer orders as to which warehouse they are to ship.

3. Warehouse Supervising

• Monitor and assist in the acquisition, management, and inventorying of Outside Warehousing as needed to maintain inventory awareness.
• Perform cycle and full annual inventory counts for the local plant directed by Corporate Audit and assist the outside warehouse.
• Interact with third party shipping companies.
• Supervise and assist in daily warehouse and shipping areas including: filling and shipping customer order, satisfying internal shipping requirements (technical service, vendors, etc.), ensuring accuracy of shipments and supporting documentation, receiving incoming material and routing to appropriate area or personnel, filling work orders from production, packaging assemblies and receiving into finished goods, ensuring inventory transactions are accurately logged and overseeing reconciliations activities.
• Measuring and reporting the effectiveness of the department activities.
• Developing and maintaining departmental work instructions for all tasks.
• Establishing or adjusting work procedures to meet warehouse demands as dictated by production schedules and workflow.
• Interpreting company policies to workers and enforcing safety regulations.
• Recommending measures to improve quality of service, increasing efficiency of department and work crew and equipment performance.
• Continuously improve warehouse operations using lean enterprise practices.
• Conferring with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments and serving internal customers.
• Maintains storage area by organizing floor space; adhering to storage design principles; recommending improvements.
• Management and training of hourly warehouse employees.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Relevant warehouse and manufacturing experience (supervisory experience preferred).
• Degree preferred in supply chain management, engineering, business or related field.
• Experience utilizing computer programs and Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook).

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Production planning and inventory management.
• Experience using SAP or other Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
• SAP Reporting Tools - Business Intelligence, Power Business Intelligence.
• Solid foundation of operating in Microsoft Excel.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Sound knowledge of supply chain processes and procedures including planning, demand management, and inventory replenishment processes in a manufacturing environment.
• Enjoys being a self-started and takes a pro-active approach to problem solving.
• Ability to make high-impact decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral) with the ability to effectively communicate with people across all levels of an organization.
• Ability to build strong team alignment and leverage the strengths of others.
• Negotiation skills, able to reason and influence at all levels.
• Customer focused.
• Organized and detail oriented.
• Data driven with the ability to use data analytics to drive decisions and discover opportunities.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new systems and a changing business environment.
• Results driven with the ability to own misses and learn from failure.
• Conducts himself/herself with the highest ethical and moral standards
• Highly motivated and results driven with a positive energy level-has a bias for proactive action.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Ability to make logical sense of ambiguous situations.

#LI-KW1

About Owens Corning

Owens Corning is a residential and commercial building products leader committed to building a sustainable future through material innovation. Our products provide durable, sustainable, energy-efficient solutions that leverage our unique capabilities and market-leading positions to help our customers win and grow. We are global in scope, human in scale with more than 25,000 employees in 31 countries dedicated to generating value for our customers and shareholders and making a difference in the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1938 and based in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Owens Corning posted 2024 sales of $11.0 billion. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com.

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer.