Coordinator Iii-mi Logistics - Wilkes-Barre, United States - MANCHESTER INDUSTRIES INC OF VIRGINIA

Description

At Manchester Industries, a Clearwater Paper Company, we provide unparalleled service and the best solutions in Paperboard Sales, Sheeting, and Distribution.

Since 1978 we have helped our customers meet the daily demands of the commercial printing, publishing, point of purchase display, specialty packaging, and folding carton industries.

Through innovation and continual improvement in precision converting technology, we provide prime paperboard grades from leading mills to paper merchants and packaging companies.

With vast inventories at Manchester's 5 strategic locations:

Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, and Texas, we maintain 14 precision sheeters, 9 guillotine trimmers, 4 carton packing lines, and 2 slitter rewinders within 450,000 combined square feet of manufacturing and warehousing space.

The goal of Manchester Industries is to provide an exceptional service platform with our staff of committed employees.

Through working with customers and suppliers together, we are able to find profitable and proficient solutions in this ever-changing marketplace.

What you will do:


Scheduling of Operations

• Communicate with Customer Service, Production, Inventory Control, and Logistics:
• Available production time, paper arrival, specific shipping times
• Status of production
• Build and maintain the schedule
• Notify Shift Supervisors of possible problems/issues in upcoming schedule
• Select available sheeted stock
• Select best fit rollsize taking into consideration number of outs and drops
• Run like board types and setups together
• Include any necessary notes or messages pertaining to orders
• Create job packets

Logistics & Distribution

• Organize the daily flow of shipments for cost effective, timely deliveries, pool, LTL, T/L and expedited
• Gathers competitive carrier pricing and other pertinent transportation information and report it to management
• Makes recommendations regarding negotiations with carriers for approval, securely maintains pertinent carrier information
• Maintains carrier contracts providing price protection among other rules of commerce
• Continuously improve methods and procedures that will improve the distribution function with customers and the coordination of setting up accounts
• Assists in the preparation of KPI reports, maintains dashboards and reporting mechanisms, ensuring accuracy and timely reporting, evaluating freight costing procedures, onetime deliveries, and other key metrics
• May coordinate carrier availability and ensure timely and accurate shipping documents based on production schedules and product availability.
• Responsible for timely and accurate shipping documents
• Furnish various reports to management to evaluate freight costing procedures
• Responsible for filing freight claims in a manner to protect our interests
• Purchases and maintains inventories of production supplies
• Negotiate, purchase, and maintain inventories of internal and external skid order requirements

Problem Solving

• Advises management of all issues that may inhibit expected job performance
• Acts in a manner consistent with company values and attitudes
• Develop knowledge base in lean concepts, with the learned ability to participate in lead problem solving activities to drive continuous improvement in area of responsibility.

What you will need:

• Logistics Degree or minimum 5 years equivalent work experience in the logistics field
• A demonstrated understanding of the transportation industry and the ability to negotiate with carriers strongly preferred
• Verifiable experience with the use of transportation tracking and scheduling tools strongly preferred
• 2+ years of prior demonstrated experience in scheduling production/mfg. areas to meet business demand
• Preferred 2+ years of prior working experience with the following sheeting/cutting technologies:
• Jagenberg, Synchro
• Marquip, Wizard
• Seybold, Guillotine or Ream Cutter
• Strong detailorientation required, with high degrees of accuracy
• A working knowledge of computers including Microsoft Office products
• Intermediate Excel skills strongly desired
• Strong organizational, communication skills written and oral
• Work well in a team environment
• Positive attitude
• Ability to speak and understand English
• Some mental, visual, physical fatigue from computer terminal use.
• Mix of office and manufacturing plant environments.
• Frequent presence in manufacturing environment involving highspeed equipment, high noise levels, heat, and cold and mill environments.
• Ability to sit for most of an 8hour shift
• 45+ hours/week
• Occasional extra hours to meet work demands
• Lifting & bending, may climb stairs, walk on uneven flooring, prolonged sitting

Total Reward Details:

**Clearwater Paper does not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applica