Supply Chain Associate (Carlyle, IL)

Job Duties and Functions:

• Contribute to planning, schedule and coordinate release plans from transport, marketing, and flow teams, providing efficient and expedient scheduling across multiple farms for the transport of swine
• Provide notification to specific stakeholders of schedules, details, changes, and service interruptions for live haul movements.
• Facilitate timely animal movements by preparing and filing regulatory documentation and permits including Health Certificates and Interstate Agreements.
• Participate after hours support for Supply Management and Logistics Emergency Hotline.
• Identify and escalate imbalanced supply chain conditions, issues to in-process activities, and constraints.
• Compile, enter, distribute, and validate data for reporting and key decision making.
• Monitor regulatory site inspections, in collaboration with veterinarians, ensuring compliance to internal policy and USDA regulatory policy.
• Ownership of validating weekly carrier invoices for payment, maintaining strict deadlines.
• Provide customer service support for processing plants, live animal buyers; production operations, veterinarians, animal care, and transport carriers.
• Complete additional projects and assignments as needed.

Minimum Qualifications 

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent required.

Associates Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain Management, or related field is preferred.

Experience

One year of related experience in data entry and Logistics preferred.  Livestock and/or agriculture experience preferred.

Knowledge, Ability, and Skills: 

Knowledge of:

• Microsoft Office programs: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, with an emphasis on Excel.
• Data entry and validation
• Office operations and basic financial documents such as orders and invoices

Skilled In:

• Clear and concise verbal and written communication
• Providing professional assistance via phone and email
• Attention to detail
• Organizational and time management in order to accomplish tasks

Ability to:

• Perform duties outside typical work hours when necessary
• Work independently, as well as a member of a team
• Multitask in a fast-paced, multifunctional team and handle a variety of issues and assignments under pressure of deadlines
• Develop an understanding of supply chain level processes
• Develop proven working relationships with Supply Chain, Production Operations, Internal and External Customers such as contract carriers and packers
• Develop understanding of production and data flow through the various systems used by Supply Chain

The Maschhoffs is an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers an exceptional benefits package!