What are the responsibilities and job description for the Logistics Supervisor position at Matthews International Corporation?
POSITION SUMMARY
The Logistics Supervisor analyzes, plans, and prepares the flow of work and materials for the business to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet completion dates according to the service schedule in accordance with business needs and department’s financial goals. This role interfaces with operations, purchasing, engineering, sales, and management to assure successful execution of projects. This role also examines job specifications and capacity data, and performs calculations to determine workflow processes, tools, and employee requirements.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with scheduler and project managers, and access reports, schedules, planning boards and various system files to acquire a detailed understanding of project plans, job timelines, target dates for any manufactured parts and assure that all scheduled timelines are being met.
- Attend and / or lead regular planning / scheduling meetings.
- Monitor and initiate review of schedule issues with the scheduler to establish a plan for corrective action that satisfies the assigned start date. Provide planning input for re-scheduling options.
- Initiate direct communication with the project management, planning, and manufacturing groups as required in order to assure a complete understanding and communication of manufacturing plans, activity schedules, and target dates.
- Interface with engineering to ensure any requirements for drawings / diagrams meet order scheduling timelines.
- Review specific activity planning and material requisites to assure the most practical and cost-effective execution and recommend alternative planning as required.
- Process, assign and release all work orders for each job and ensure accurate activity durations, BOM entry and start dates required to meet timeline target dates.
