Terminal Manager

Job Description

General Duties and Responsibilities:

Daily Items:

Coordinate with Traffic Coordinator to ensure cutoffs and daily shipment needs are met

Review planning reports:

Containers being pulled by carriers

Active Bookings report

Review forklift inspections

Review Mule truck inspections

Review production numbers and production reports

Verify and turn in all bonuses weekly

Weekly items:

Review rail mover inspections

Conduct supply counts and work with Supplies Manager on needed reconciliation

Count purge and scrap supply counts and work with Customer Service to have those items moved

Cycle counts every Thursday/Friday

Terminal project and priority update as required by Management

OCS audit

Bi-weekly items:

Asset report

Monthly Items:

House Keeping Audits

Daily housekeeping and cleanliness inspection of Terminal and surrounding grounds

Review of the Aged Inventory Report & coordination with appropriate CSRs to keep aged inventory levels at a minimum

Review of Terminal productivity numbers

Manage the maintenance and upkeep of all warehouse equipment, including but not limited to forklifts, stretch-wrap machines, dock plates, dock levelers, sweepers, dock bumpers…

Facilitate coordination and communication between Packaging, Warehousing, Bulk loading, Transport, and Customer Service departments

Maintain a 5-day planning horizon

Manage hours & PTO of warehouse employees

Problem-solving inter-departmental conflicts and communication issues

Provide technical expertise to functional departments where necessary

Monitor warehouse labor productivity and plan hours according to volume needs

Review and understand all procedures & safety requirements that apply to the Terminal

Audit against those procedures

Enforce the procedures

Document any and all safety incidents or near misses on the appropriate incident report and file with the Safety and HR departments

Document any and all necessary disciplinary action

Assist in terminal projects, audits, and physical inventories

Assist in training requirements as provided by the Quality and Safety departments

Assist in any other areas of need that arise

Key Requirements

Effective troubleshooter and problem solver

Customer focused, proven ability to meet customer needs

Effective communicator across an organization

Strong organization system

Goal-oriented, being able to communicate those goals to employees and hold them accountable to those goals

Systems knowledge and motivation to learn and explore

Ability to generate and use data to manage operation

The ability to negotiate with and influence various functions both internal and external, with no direct responsibility for these functions

Good equipment manager

Not afraid to learn and get hands dirty

A college degree is preferred but not required.

Able to work the hours necessary to get the job done including an occasional weekend day due to weather delaysCompany Description

Frontier provides diverse and complete supply chain management services and solutions to a variety of customers in the plastics industry and beyond. We currently provide packaging, warehousing, intermodal container drayage, bulk transportation and freight forwarding. Frontier makes a strong commitment to its customers to exceed their expectations by using innovative technology and processes.