CIC Supervisor - A2

Our Livonia Distribution Center, a 400,000 sq. ft. refrigerated facility operating 24/7, is currently seeking a CIC Supervisor to join our team. The essential function of this position is to be the primary person responsible for achieving all department goals including rejection percentage, inventory freshness, timely allocations, minimize dumps/donates, and increase percentage from inventory. The supervisor is the Grape/TOV commodity department’s main contact with both the commodity planners and operations management. The supervisor oversees all department subordinates, including training, as well as day to day functions.

Shift: Monday – Friday; 6:00PM - 6:00AM

Primary Responsibilities:

• Achieve departmental Goals for including rejection percentage, inventory freshness, timely allocations, minimize dumps/donates, and increase percentage.
• Work with the Operations team and CIC manager to communicate daily Production and Sales Order allocations.
• Ensure that all sales orders are allocated through inventory or production so that customer service objectives are achieved.
• Maintain, in conjunction with planner, an inventory plan for the 0-3-day horizon that includes tracking of inbounds, production plans and forecasted sales.
• Communicate the plan to the CIC’s and follow up to make sure the plan is being executed properly
• Routinely check product quality in inventory and at receiving.
• Coordinate and assist in communicating customers’ expectations with the commodity team, Production, and Shipping.
• Maintain regular communication with the Commodity Planners, Production Schedulers, Commodity Inventory Controllers, and Production Managers.
• Maintain regular communication with Receiving and Logistics, with specific emphasis on load priorities and product specifications.
• Make suggestions to planning team on disposal/movement of surplus commodities in a timely fashion.
• Verify GMP and Organic compliance is maintained in assigned area of responsibility.
• Communicate missed quality issues with procurement and quality to get NCs in place.
• Liaise between sales and commodity operations to ensure that customer expectations are satisfied.
• Complete all sample requests through MPL-2.
• Coordinate DNS/Blowout/Dump product lists daily for required products.
• Training new hires for the Commodity Inventory Controller positions.
• Be involved in the interview process for the Commodity Inventory Controller position.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Previous experience in produce industry preferred
• Willingness to work independently, with minimal supervision and take ownership of job.
• Comfortable making decisions.
• Must have strong communication skills.
• Detail oriented.
• Will need to learn significant Product / Industry knowledge.
• Must be high-performance team player and be willing to work in a dynamic, growing, demanding and fast-paced environment.
• Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Need to be creative, adaptable and able to accurately handle out-of-the-ordinary issues with a sense of urgency.
• Must have ability to effectively follow-up and handle multiple projects with strong personal time management skills and effectively manage associated stress.
• Proficient in basic computer-use skills and will need to learn NAV, JDA. Existing knowledge of JDA and NAV strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with MS Office including using Excel for spreadsheets
• Must be a self-starter and willing to work flexible hours.
• Ability to work in our refrigerated warehouse, 50-degree controlled temperature zones
• Must have manual dexterity to perform computer skills
• Complete a background and drug test screening

Working Conditions:

• Combination of refrigerated warehouse (80%) and office (20%) environment
• Background noise (from refrigeration) approaches 70 dcbs.
• Must be able to lift up to 30 lbs. with or without accommodation
• Position requires sitting, standing, walking and bending, on a regular basis. Limited kneeling, squatting and crawling required.

We are pleased to offer the following Benefits:

• Paid weekly
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance
• 401K
• Paid time off and holiday pay
• Employee Engagement & Recognition Programs
• Opportunities for growth and advancement

Mastronardi Produce has accommodation processes and policies in place and provides accommodation for employees with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability or documented medical need, please contact the Human Resource office so that arrangements can be made for the appropriate accommodation to be put in place.