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Alene Candles LLC & Midwest is a private label, contract manufacturer that produces high-quality candles for some of the worlds most recognized retail, boutique, and cosmetic brands. With our headquarters in New Hampshire and locations in Ohio and New York, weve been in business for over 25 years. We are passionate about making the best products in the world, making safety our number one priority, and being an insanely great place to work.
Summary
The Transportation/Shipping Assistant Supervisor creates, coordinates and completes shipments of goods between the company and vendor or customers. This position will manage shipments and the transport of goods. In addition, this role also organizes the TSP team across all shifts, interviews, hires, trains those associates.
Role and Responsibilities
- Lead team of all functions for the Transportations Specialist
- Manages schedule across all shifts.
- Trains and provides feedback to team
- Develop and use Carrier Scorecard
- Main point of contact for shipping.
- Works directly with our customer for the load planning of all items BBW is requesting to be shipped
- Schedules all pickups in the portal with freight carriers
- Adds all customer orders in ERP system and creates shipments from the plan by customer.
- Schedules and tracks outbound freight via email.
- Creates pick list for Material handlers and Verifiers
- Inventory and record all diversified orders for all shipments
- Verifies and balances inventory in our ERP system vs. SAP (customer inventory)
- Coordinate shipments to ensure on-time deliveries of goods to customers
- Critical, time sensitive decision making
Requirements
Education required
- High school diploma or general education diploma (GED)
Range of Experience:
- 3-5 years experience in a logistics environment
- APICS
- Experience with seasonal business
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Detail Oriented
- Strong Customer Service Skills
- Problem solving ability
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent follow through is a Must
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or touch; reach, talk, hear and smell. The employee may be required to, kneel, crouch, sit, climb or balance. The employee may lift and/or move up to more than 50 pounds with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee may be regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, and aromas. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the physical demands and work environment.
Benefits
Alene offers a host of competitive benefits for full-time employees, some of which include: Medical, Dental, and Vision with a Healthcare Reimbursement Account, 401(k) with company match, Basic Life Insurance (100% company paid), Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending Account, Paid Holidays, Paid Time Off, Tuition Reimbursement and Alene Gives Back our paid volunteer program.
Alene Candles provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Should you require assistance completing this application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact recruitment@alene.com or call 614-933-4005 and ask to speak to Human Resources. We will make every effort to accommodate your needs in a reasonable amount of time.
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