Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, the position holder's main responsibility is the strategic management of the site’s entire Logistics and transportation department and it’s personnel. Their role also includes promoting and applying Glatfelter's values and rules, particularly in terms of health and safety, quality, customer service, and continuous improvement.
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Analyze and monitor the effectiveness of the services under their supervision to maintain a high level of performance and reliability (technical and financial).
- Optimize storage, transportation, and handling processes and strategies across the company's various sites.
- Manage inventories (efficiency of the FIFO process, inventory reliability process and management of reject inventories from various storage sites).
- Negotiate certain service contracts with the support of their superior and/or the purchasing group.
- Manage the departmental HSE plan, promote workplace health and safety within the group, and take action on various departmental risks.
- Support members of their management team (4 employees) in achieving their performance objectives.