Job Description

Portfolio Business : Huber Engineered Materials

Martinswerk GmbH is a company of J.M. Huber Corporation and belongs to the Division of HUBER ENGINEERED MATERIALS, produces at Bergheim site more than 100 chemical specialty products on the basis of aluminum hydroxide, alumina, and UF resins for numerous industrial applications. Nearly 500 people are working with high qualification and experience of over 100 years of customer-oriented solutions.

Position Summary

As a Logistics & Shipping Manager, the successful candidate will serve the Marble Hill, Georgia calcium carbonate plant as the responsible and leading party of ensuring excellence through shipping, logistics, inventory management, and warehouse operations. The Logistics & Shipping Manager will manage a team of shipping employees and be the primary liaison between the Marble Hill Operations, HEM Central Logistics, Customer Care teams, and transportation/warehousing partners.  The Logistics & Shipping Manager will ensure all loading and shipping operations are compliant with local, state, and federal regulations. This role will be responsible for effective and efficient deployment of approximately 750K tons of calcium carbonate shipments annually.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage inventory at Marble Hill warehouse and offsite warehouse.
• Responsible for a team consisting of a Logistics Supervisor and upwards of eight (8) hourly Shipping Operators.
• Manage scheduling of transportation, inventory, and logistics software processes.
• Collaborate with Production Mgr. on product planning/supply
• Develop and implement cost-effective solutions for supply chain processes.
• Analyze data from shipping and delivering processes to find bottlenecks and other issues.
• Evaluate and report on KPIs.
• Maintains an accurate and up-to-date shipping schedule and resolves any overloaded situations.
• Bulk and van truck scheduling coordination with Truck Transportation Vendors, Customer Service, Operations, and Sales & Operations Planning.
• Leverage best-in-class business planning tools (Microsoft applications, management systems, ERP and associated software).
• Site owner for truck appointment scheduling system (includes ship confirmations, railcar release documentation, appointment scheduling, correcting shipping document errors, etc.).
• Collaborate with Operations at Marble Hill site and HEM Central logistics to manage distribution of finished products by truck-to-railcars at the transload facility.
• Site owner for service failures/error free shipping defects. Lead reporting, root cause investigation, and corrective action implementation.
• Automate repetitive aspects of supply chain functions.
• Ensure inventory accuracy through cycle counting programs and lead the reconciliation process.
• Audit, collaborate with HEM Central Logistics on, and provide corrective actions pertaining to proper cargo securement policies and shipping items necessary for compliance with local, state, federal regulations.
  

Specialized/Technical Knowledge or Required Skills

• 4 year Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain/Logistics, Business Management, Engineering preferrable. Relevant work experience could be considered in lieu.  
• Minimum 3-5 years hands on experience in logistics operation (rail/transload/truck/repair).
• Established experience in warehouse management, cycle counting, data integrity.
• Intimate knowledge of and hands on experience using ERP systems (Oracle, SAP, etc.).
• Excellent analytical skills and better than average proficiency in Microsoft applications (Excel).
• Demonstrated problem solving and decision quality skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and effectively across functional lines without formal authority to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and make consequential decisions.
• Highly effective people and leadership skills.

In addition to the good benefits of the German chemical industry, we can offer you a very interesting task area with high responsibility and opportunities for further development.

Have we sparked your interest?

We look forward to your application specifying the earliest possible starting date and your salary request.

Huber Engineered Materials 

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