Logistic Supervisor

About the role

The Logistics Supervisor is responsible for leading and coordinating daily logistics activities supporting the Pelzer manufacturing campus. This position provides hands-on leadership for inbound and outbound transportation, shipment execution, carrier coordination, documentation, and overall logistics performance. The successful candidate will work closely with Warehouse, Materials, Planning, Production, Customer Service, and other cross-functional teams to ensure material and finished goods move safely, accurately, and on schedule. This role requires a strong operational leader who can work effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, manage changing priorities, and drive accountability and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate daily inbound and outbound logistics activities across the Pelzer operation.
• Manage transportation planning, carrier scheduling, truck coordination, and shipment execution.
• Ensure shipments are planned and executed in alignment with production and customer requirements.
• Partner closely with Warehouse, Planning, Materials, and Production teams to maintain alignment on daily and weekly shipping priorities.
• Ensure all required shipping documentation, system transactions, BOLs, and supporting records are completed accurately and on time.
• Monitor carrier performance, transportation issues, missed pickups, late deliveries, and other logistics-related risks.
• Support urgent and expedited transportation requirements while driving improved planning to reduce unnecessary premium freight.
• Provide daily leadership, direction, coaching, and accountability to the logistics team.
• Establish and maintain standard work, processes, and controls for logistics execution.
• Monitor logistics KPIs and identify opportunities to improve service, cost, efficiency, and execution.
• Support month-end and quarter-end shipment requirements while ensuring established operational and system controls are maintained.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to resolve transportation, shipment, and delivery issues.
• Ensure compliance with company safety, quality, transportation, and operational requirements.
• Support continued growth and expansion of the Pelzer campus and logistics network.
• Drive a culture of teamwork, ownership, urgency, and continuous improvement.
• Improve the process expectations: maintain standard work, eliminate waste, reduce operative burden within the office, set individual priorities for team members and time for each task, foster culture of continuous improvement within your section, optimize standard system setup to structurally and continuously improve results, ensure continuous improvement activities and identify possible synergies with factory organization, apply economic/cost reduction thinking – alternative options.
• Develop the team expectations: provide leadership to the team ensuring that individual and team objectives are communicated and met, address issues of nonperformance in a controlled and structured way ensuring fairness and integrity, create and maintain an inclusive work environment, fully utilize individual strengths within the team to make the team stronger, ensure that all team members meet required standards of performance, ensure appropriate development, training and coaching for the team, ensure that an effective escalation process is in place to deal with critical issues, support talent management process (selection, development, and career path), identify knowledge & skill gaps within your team and work to teach, track and develop skills so their strengths are fully utilized, ensure team spirit, good team-working environment, conflict negotiation, individual and group communication, ensure awareness of company rules and procedures and liaise/promote awareness amongst team members, manage absence within your team ensuring a consistent approach utilizing the RTW process, participate in disciplinary hearings as required ensuring fairness and integrity, provide peer input at annual performance review or other such competency review process, verify team members essential experience/qualification criteria for their roles, provide input for 3- & 6-month probationary review to be verified and signed off by manager, manage all holiday entitlements for team personnel.
• Success in this position will be measured by safe and on-time shipment execution, strong transportation and carrier performance, accurate system and shipping documentation, improved logistics planning, reduced expedite risk, and effective coordination between Logistics, Warehouse, Planning, Materials, and Production.

Qualifications

• Previous logistics, transportation, warehouse, supply chain, or manufacturing experience required.
• Previous supervisory or team leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of inbound and outbound transportation operations.
• Experience