What are the responsibilities and job description for the Logistics Manager position at Forward?
Position: Logistics Manager
Job Description:
Forward Air is seeking a dynamic Logistics Manager to lead our logistics and warehouse operations, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and profitability. This role involves supervising and training teams, optimizing inventory and transportation activities, maintaining certifications and compliance standards, and managing facilities. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with a preference for experience in SAP and advanced Microsoft Office Suite.
Core Responsibilities & Duties:
- Manage a team of logistics professionals to ensure organizational standards are met
- Supervise, coach, and train warehouse staff and other logistics specialists
- Planning logistics, warehouse, and transportation activities
- Develop, maintain, and improve KPI requirements (both internal and external)
- Ensure staffing levels are adequate and profitability is in line with goals
- Help to process daily shipments via common carrier, integrator and freight forwarder
- Work within ERP, WMS, and MRP systems to ensure accurate inventory control
- Optimizing location to maximize efficiency and profitability
- Maintain site certifications and records such as CTPAT, CFS, ISO, GDP, etc. as well as compliance with federal, state, and local requirements
- Liaising and negotiating with suppliers
- Monitoring the safety and cleanliness of interior and exterior areas
- Ensuring routine maintenance on facilities and making repairs as needed
- Scheduling routine inspections and emergency repairs with outside vendors
- Ensuring proper security measures for the workplace, including collaborating with security system vendors
- Creating reports on maintenance, repairs, safety and other occurrences for supervisors and other relevant staff
- Preparing facilities for changing weather conditions
- Collaborating with building owners and upper management on budgeting for facilities needs
- Other duties as assigned
Job Requirements & Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree is preferred
- MS Word, Excel, and overall computer literate
- Advanced level of Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Power Point and Excel
- SAP experience not required but preferred
- Strong analytical/problem solving, communication, and collaboration/relationship skills
- Familiarity with security measures and protocols
- Able to work effectively in a highly cross-functional organization, as well as work independently
- Requires the ability to make judgments and work with minimum supervision
- Level-headed and be able to lead a team
What We Offer:
- Competitive base salary
- Paid time off within the first year of employment, sick time and holidays
- Company provided life insurance
- Health, vision, and dental insurance options
- Commuter benefit plan
- Optional supplemental life insurance
- 401(k)
- Wellness program
- A great place to work with a terrific culture
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