Job Description

The Logistics Supervisor ensures the safe and timely transportation of machinery, equipment, raw materials, and finished products at the best cost. They are responsible for ensuring all merchandise is transported safely and guaranteeing that equipment is not involved in unsafe situations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Foreign Trade, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or related fields.
• 5 years in Logistics/Transport, Foreign Trade, applicable to transportation function, Budget Control, and Administration in the industrial manufacturing environment.
• English: Professional Level

Training and Specific Skills:

• Technical Knowledge/Methodologies:
• Traffic/Transportation
• Heavy equipment transportation suppliers
• Negotiations
• Customs crossing operations in both directions.
• MS Office
• Foreign trade for traffic function
• Project management

Special Requirements

• Communication: Effective verbal and written communication skills, precise report creation, presentation skills, and good listening skills.
• Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, seeking new responsibilities, and generating new ideas.
• Interpersonal Relationships: Strong relationship-building skills, flexibility, and effective negotiation skills.
• Customer Service: Building customer confidence, meeting achievable customer expectations, taking responsibility for resolving customer problems, ensuring commitments are met, soliciting customer opinions and ideas, and responding to internal customers.
• Quality Focus: Attention to detail, commitment to excellence, continuous improvement mindset.
• Productivity Focus: Prioritizing tasks, developing efficient work procedures, managing time and resources effectively, and managing information flow.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Compile required information for traffic operations at the start of the plant project.
• Gather necessary information for the initial movements of Machinery and Equipment, Raw Materials, Indirect, and Services in a timely manner.
• Set up all necessary operations for traffic in the TMS system.
• Develop required reports in collaboration with IT for procurement and warehouse operations during the initial phase.
• Operate exclusively with suppliers approved by the US company.
• Define metrics (KPIs) for the area and carry out monthly reports and action plans for improvement.
• Prepare and adhere to the departmental budget.
• Ensure orders are sent completely and according to the scheduled date in SAP.
• Ensure orders are delivered on time to the end customer, ensuring the crossing process at the border.
• Maintain electronic folders for each order with their corresponding documents, including shipping documents, BOL, packing lists, and commercial invoices.
• Develop an annual savings plan and monitor its progress in a subsequent phase.
• Collaborate with Quality to address supplier rejections and transportation damage claims.
• Provide necessary information using the Total Landed Cost methodology to the procurement department.
• Prepare periodic activity reports.
• Communicate and coordinate any production shortages caused by transport damage, conducting root cause analysis and finding solutions.
• Keep the transporters' price base updated.
• Review and analyze exception reports for timely payment to transporters and avoid any delivery interruptions.
• Define continuous improvement activities to optimize process efficiency and cost reduction.
• Perform other activities directed by management.
• Provide support to other Supply Chain functions at Plant Monterrey, Global.

Our client is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. They prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.