What are the responsibilities and job description for the Logistics Manager (Escanaba, MI) position at Billerud?
Purpose
Job description
Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Billerud’s mission to lead the way when it comes to challenging conventional packaging and business? Our decisions are guided by the promise of creating a better tomorrow. Building a future where lighter, stronger, more durable and sustainable packaging is the natural choice not only requires experience and expertise, but also takes dedication, teamwork and perseverance. This is a journey that we are making together with our talented staff and our customers.
Summary Description
The Logistics Manager will support Planning, Scheduling, and Delivery operations in achieving targeted business goals regarding safety, finishing, shipping, and leadership.
Qualifications
Key Accountabilities:
Required Experience And Education
Minimum Required Experience and Education:
Required Skills
Minimum Required Skills:
Billerud NA is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.
Why us?
Click here to apply for the job!
Do you want to help create a sustainable future through your work?
At Billerud, we are fully committed to reduce our and our customers carbon footprint by offering high-performance paper and packaging materials. We are convinced that the right solutions can be important tools to help fight climate change. That's why we see it as our responsibility to enable the best packaging choices, for a better tomorrow.
Our proud history in the forestry and paper industry goes back more than 150 years. Since then, we’ve grown to what we are today: a world leading company in high-performing paper and packaging materials - passionately committed to sustainability, quality, and customer value. Our materials are the basis of packaging and paper products used by millions of people around the world, 24 hours a day, all year round.
We serve customers in more than 100 countries through our three business areas Liquid Packaging Board, Paper and Paper Board. Our nine production units are located in Sweden, USA, and Finland and we have around 6,000 employees in 19 countries. Our annual turnover is approximately SEK 43.5 billion and the share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. At Billerud we always put safety first, care for each other, and do what we say.
Join us in redefining sustainable packaging and drive meaningful change for a better tomorrow.
Job description
Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Billerud’s mission to lead the way when it comes to challenging conventional packaging and business? Our decisions are guided by the promise of creating a better tomorrow. Building a future where lighter, stronger, more durable and sustainable packaging is the natural choice not only requires experience and expertise, but also takes dedication, teamwork and perseverance. This is a journey that we are making together with our talented staff and our customers.
Summary Description
The Logistics Manager will support Planning, Scheduling, and Delivery operations in achieving targeted business goals regarding safety, finishing, shipping, and leadership.
Qualifications
Key Accountabilities:
- Responsibilities include paper machine and rewinder scheduling, converting, and wrapping operation, core room, NCP utilization, warehousing, freight management, freight planning, transit damage prevention and shipping of orders. Manages a team of exempt and hourly employees.
- Promote and practice safety accountability.
- Ensure environmental compliance and accountability.
- Support three paper machine lines, one pulp line, and multiple product lines.
- Oversee the shipping, converting and rewinding operations to make certain the mill is meeting shipping and delivery commitments to their customers.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and external reporting requirements.
- Manage the PS&D budget.
- Partner with internal shipping employees, truck carriers, railroad personnel to minimize transit damage.
- Coach and develop direct reports to build a strong cohesive team.
- Support the PS&D staff; provide support and solutions to continually improve the shipping, converting and rewinding processes.
- Provide alignment and communication within the mill and with mill-external stakeholders.
- Support and promote operations reliability initiatives to meet department budget.
- Lead and advocate change.
- Maximize limited time and resources to produce and ship quality products.
- Working knowledge of Billerud Paper and its place in the global marketplace.
- Working knowledge of logistics, warehousing, shipping, converting and production planning.
- Working knowledge of internal and external customers.
Required Experience And Education
Minimum Required Experience and Education:
- 10 years of paper industry experience preferred
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industrial management experience
- Successful career with increasing levels of leadership responsibilities.
Required Skills
Minimum Required Skills:
- Knowledge of order management processes and systems knowledge.
- Production planning and inventory control knowledge of OptiVision, PI, and SAP.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong computer skills.
- High degree of internal and external customer awareness.
- Must have a desire to succeed with strong team orientation.
Billerud NA is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.
Why us?
- Be part of a dynamic team within Billerud
- An opportunity to contribute to a more sustainable future
- Development and career opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement and certificate courses offered through partner schools.
- Performance-based bonus
- You can choose among three medical plans designed to help you and your family stay healthy (with virtual care options!).
- Generous 401K match including discretionary annual contribution
- HSA Contribution match with additional contribution for annual preventive exam
- Dental & Vision coverage
- Company paid Disability Coverage
- Wellness rewards program
- Prescription Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Opportunity to hybrid working according to company standard
Click here to apply for the job!
Do you want to help create a sustainable future through your work?
At Billerud, we are fully committed to reduce our and our customers carbon footprint by offering high-performance paper and packaging materials. We are convinced that the right solutions can be important tools to help fight climate change. That's why we see it as our responsibility to enable the best packaging choices, for a better tomorrow.
Our proud history in the forestry and paper industry goes back more than 150 years. Since then, we’ve grown to what we are today: a world leading company in high-performing paper and packaging materials - passionately committed to sustainability, quality, and customer value. Our materials are the basis of packaging and paper products used by millions of people around the world, 24 hours a day, all year round.
We serve customers in more than 100 countries through our three business areas Liquid Packaging Board, Paper and Paper Board. Our nine production units are located in Sweden, USA, and Finland and we have around 6,000 employees in 19 countries. Our annual turnover is approximately SEK 43.5 billion and the share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. At Billerud we always put safety first, care for each other, and do what we say.
Join us in redefining sustainable packaging and drive meaningful change for a better tomorrow.