Job description
TITLE
Area Leader, Logistics
LOCATION
Longmont, Colorado
Why Smucker is the Place for You
You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment. One that allows you to deliver your best work and become your best professional self. That is exactly what you will find at Smucker.
You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment. One that allows you to deliver your best work and become your best professional self. That is exactly what you will find at Smucker.
Inspired by our unique culture, we are determined to support every employee holistically by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs through:
- Our Total Reward benefits program – includes competitive health and financial benefits that reflect your needs at different life stages, and a continued commitment to empower flexible work schedules and remote work opportunities to help you thrive.
- Continuous opportunities to learn, grow and develop – beyond functional job-based education, we promote well-rounded development and encourage a spirit of continuous learning as part of our commitment to help you realize your professional goals.
- Our continued progress on the journey to become the inclusive and diverse organization we expect to be supporting equity across our communities. We firmly believe that an inclusive environment and diverse organization strengthens our Company and enables every employee to reach their full potential.
Your Opportunity
At Smucker, we view our manufacturing operations as the heart of our efforts to deliver food people and pets love. It is foundational to our commitment to provide safe, high-quality products our consumers count on for themselves and their families. With this, we believe passionately in promoting manufacturing as a career. That means ensuring continued growth and development opportunities to help you hone your craft and extend your expertise with us.
In this role you will:
- Lead 30+ logistics team members across 4 teams to support production at the Longmont manufacturing location in the areas of shipping, receiving, supply delivery, and equipment reliability
- Build capability in logistics team leaders and technicians to deliver key business results and drive department/plant improvements
- Responsible for engaging the team in meeting safety, quality, production, and cost savings targets for their area by:
- Develop and maintain scorecard metrics and review progress with leadership; understand gaps and develop action plans accordingly
- Ensure key performance indicators are established for teams and the results are communicated routinely
- Drive high-performance work culture by engaging with team members on the floor and coaching to problem solve, make decisions, and become self-reliant.
- Partner with Logistics Manager to develop and deliver department master plan, including key organizational projects
- Self-starter with outside the box thinking to develop ideas and coach team members on planning and execution
- Understand vendor management tools (scorecard, KPIs) and ability to develop such tools with the service vendor providers
- Address gaps in department performance through the implementation and effective coaching of Smucker Continuous Improvement methodologies; foster a zero-loss culture
- Responsible for ensuring department issues are driven to root cause and eliminated
- Understand company policies and procedures and apply consistently across your teams; administer any necessary discipline
- Oversee training and qualification programs for designated line/area; participate in assessments, ensure effective training, and maintain consistent qualification standards
- Translate complex information into easily understandable messages to facilitate clear communication and expectations
- Embrace change and build team buy-in to new initiatives and improvements
- Manage time and attendance for designated line/area (including payroll approval)
- Provide performance-based feedback to team leaders and technicians, including annual Performance Appraisals
- Model the Basic Beliefs and Our Commitment to Each Other
- Assist in executing plant start up commissioning, qualification, and verification (CQV) activities
The Right Role for You
Are you a dedicated professional motivated by the opportunity to support consistent delivery of the highest quality work while striving for continuous improvement? Are you excited by the chance to expand your expertise while further developing your skills? If so, you are the type of professional we are looking for to join our Company!
Below is what we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Previous manufacturing experience is required, food manufacturing preferred
- Minimum of 2 years of experience leading, supervising, or managing others
- Background in logistics is preferred
- Proven ability to lead and motivate a large organization to deliver business needs
- Ability to effectively engage team members on the plant floor
- Decisive, proactive, and strategic in decision making
- Willingness to lead by example, coach and train team
- Strong analytical troubleshooting, problem-solving, and root cause identification skills
- Effectively works across organization boundaries and with diverse teams
- Self-motivated, organized, and able to learn new skills/technologies quickly
- Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite applications
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Willingness to work a flexible schedule that most effectively supports the organization
- Willingness to work off-shifts or weekends as needed
- Colorado Specific Salary Range - 87,000K - 141,000K
- This role is eligible for our Annual Incentive Plan bonus
Additional Job Description
Learn More About Working at Smucker
Our Total Rewards Benefits Program
Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business
Our Continued Progress on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity
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