About this role
About the Role Plant Logistics Specialist is responsible for managing and optimizing logistics operations within the plant, focusing on the efficient movement and storage of materials, components, and finished products. This role involves coordinating with production, procurement, and external suppliers to ensure timely delivery and accurate inventory management. What You'll Do
- Receive, analyze and forward requirements to suppliers to ensure accurate and timely delivery of parts.
- Identify and assist in resolving delivery performance problems to reduce late purchased parts and subsequent production downtime.
- Maintain communications with suppliers to identify late or short deliveries to enable alternate action to be taken and to provide updates to manufacturing personnel.
- Maintain open communications with Manufacturing to keep informed on late deliveries and potential quality problems.
- Develop or assist with contingency plans for late deliveries to enable realistic delivery dates to be transmitted to production for workforce and Shipping requirements.
- Contact potential suppliers on new parts for estimated delivery to ensure parts availability to meet production and Shipping objectives; monitor planning of purchased parts to ensure requirements are satisfied.
- Analyze trends and keep management advised of action to improve or dissolve chronic suppliers.
- Guide and train less experienced personnel in the techniques of supervising and coordinating on-time deliveries.
- Monitor lead times of purchased parts, by supplier.
- Inform management when lead times move out of acceptable and expected time frames.
- Maintain quality metrics by supplier.
- Order and expedite parts that are outside the normal lead time to support short lead adds in manufacturing. What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, and at least 1 year of experience in a related field.
- OR high school diploma/GED plus 5 or more years in a manufacturing environment.