Shipping & Receiving Supervisor
On-siteEast Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Job Summary
Supervise personnel across shipping, receiving, material handling, and packaging to ensure compliance with customer, vendor, and regulatory requirements while driving daily order attainment against budget. Coordinate staff, maintain skills matrices, and enforce 5S principles and lean methodologies to maximize productivity and eliminate waste. Verify ERP fulfillment data, manage LTL shipping and freight forwarding, and oversee documentation for domestic and international exports including ITAR and DFAR. Monitor departmental KPIs, correct packaging errors, and escalate performance issues to stakeholders. This role supports aerospace OEMs in producing precision machined components through rigorous traceability and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Progressive career development holding various positions within a shipping and receiving team
- Strong knowledge of all administrative duties and documentation needed to complete domestic and international shipments, including export/customs compliance
- Lead teams using working knowledge of Lean Principles, 5S and continuous improvement mindset
- Previous supervisory or team lead experience
- Demonstrated track record of training, performance management, and motivating a team
- Experience in aerospace component manufacturing
- Adjacent industry experience that requires a critical degree of product traceability and compliance
- Exposure with DFAR and ITAR compliance supporting aerospace OEMs
- Highly adept with ERP systems, working within customer portals, and navigating carrier portals (UPS, FedEx)
- Experience with Epicor
- Understanding of manufacturing and production environments
- Shipping make-to-order products experience
- High mix and low volume environment experience
- 100% in office at our plant in East Hartford, CT
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in aerospace component manufacturing preferred or an adjacent industry that requires a critical degree of product traceability and compliance
- Exposure with DFAR and ITAR compliance supporting aerospace OEMs such as Collins Aerospace, GE, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky, Boeing, or other similar companies is a plus
- Experience with Epicor a plus
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