Job Number: 2780
Job Title: Logistics Manager
Closest Metropolitan Area: Chicago, IL, United States
Location Type: Manufacturing Plant
Metal Type: Aluminum
Metal Shape: Fabricated Components
Compensation Range: $160K+
- 5+ years of management experience in production planning, logistics, supply chain, inventory control, or a related manufacturing function
- Experience managing production schedules, raw-material availability, finished-goods warehousing, freight, and customer delivery requirements
- Strong ERP/MRP background
- Proven ability to analyze capacity requirements and improve schedule accuracy and on-time delivery
- Experience leading and developing planners, schedulers, logistics managers, and cross-functional teams
- Working knowledge of forecasting, budgeting, freight costs, expedites, and inventory-management systems
- Ability to monitor logistics KPIs and use data to improve material flow, delivery performance, and operating costs
- Comfortable coordinating shipments across multiple plants and responding to emergency material requirements
- Strong problem-solving and organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines
- Hands-on manufacturing mindset with experience partnering across production, shipping, purchasing, customer service, and operations
- Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent education and experience considered
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship
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