Your Job Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Shipping Supervisor for our Savannah, GA Gypsum plant. This role will provide leadership and oversight for shipping and warehouse operations while fostering a culture of safety, teamwork, and operational excellence.
The Shipping Supervisor will be responsible for leading, motivating, and developing a team of hourly employees to achieve daily shipping targets and safety adherence. The successful candidate will utilize leadership, logistics experience, and strong communication skills to identify and implement improvement opportunities related to people, processes, and systems.
This role requires a self-driven leader who is committed to employee engagement, safety, and product quality while ensuring efficient and reliable shipping operations.
What You Will Do - Lead, motivate and develop a team of hourly employees to increase individual and overall business performance goals.
- Provide clear direction and coaching to team members to ensure daily shipping and warehouse operations run efficiently and safely.
• Foster employee engagement by
encouraging teamwork, recognizing performance, and promoting continuous improvement .
• Drive improvements in
shipping efficiency and on-time delivery performance • Promote and maintain a strong
safety culture , ensuring adherence to all safety laws, regulations, and company policies.
- Manage shipping and warehouse functions along with inventory accuracy for the plant.
- Focus on shipping efficiencies for deliveries.
- Communicate effectively with Production, Sales, and Logistics teams to meet customer needs.
- Collaborate with outside carriers to manage truck fleets along with outside vendors.
- Evaluate shipments and product levels to improve inventory discrepancies.
- Must be able to work a flexible schedule per business needs.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) - Prior experience in a shipping/warehouse leadership role in a manufacturing/industrial environment
- Intermediate experience with Microsoft Office applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Word
- Inventory management skills
- Commitment to promoting behaviors aligned to the Company's visions and values.
- Intermediate forklift operational skills
What Will Put You Ahead - Bachelor's degree in business, logistics, or supply chain management or similar
- Experience with computerized inventory systems (SAP)
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Who We Are As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30, 000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day -to make everyday products even better.
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Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
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