Title:  Shipping/Receiving/Warehouse Supervisor, 1st Shift   Req ID: 6659

City, State:  Wells, MN

Reports to:  Plant Manager 

Classification:  Exempt 

Salary: The anticipated starting annual salary for this role is between $55,000 and $75,000, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and applicable experience.

Benefits: Brakebush provides a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance (medical, dental, and vision), an annual bonus, a 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions, and tuition reimbursement programs. Employees earn Paid Time Off and enjoy 10 paid holidays, totaling over 20 days off over the course of a full calendar year. For further details, please visit www.careers.Brakebush.com.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary: The Shipping Supervisor is responsible for team members and collaborates with multiple departments to ensure storage and transportation schedules to meet production, purchasing, and sanitation requirements.

Essential Functions: 

• Empowers team members, through supervision, training, and feedback opportunities, to meet and exceed expectations for productivity, quality assurance, waste management and food/personal safety.  
• Coordinates transportation on storage, trailers, loading priorities and routing. 
• Supports all production lines by ensuring the delivery and timely removal of raw material and maintaining correct and timely inventories of all raw material, WIP, finished product, ingredients, and packaging. 
• Manages shipping documentation, labeling, isolation and holds.
• Ensures compliance of company policies and procedures, safety regulations, GMP’s, SOP’s, SSOP’s, HACCP and SQF.
• Leads the performance appraisal and progressive, corrective action steps to promote positive and safe teamwork environments.

Required Qualifications: 

• Demonstrated three years supervisory or leadership skills in a shipping and receiving department or a bachelor’s degree and internship.
• Working knowledge of Shipping and Receiving
• PIT certified.
• Strong interpersonal skills, to include professional oral and written communication, a teamfocused approach, and the ability to model composure/make decisions in stressful situations. 
• Able to organize and coordinate work within schedule constraints and handle emergent requirements in a timely manner. 
• Competent in SAP and Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, and Outlook

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Prior supervisory experience in a poultry/food processing setting 
• Licensed for forklift, pallet jack, scissor lifts, and other PIT equipment. 
• Prior experience with SAP or Infinity • Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly preferred. 
• Knowledge of general First Aid and CPR
• Supervisory Responsibility: This position will supervise the shipping team members at the Wells facility. 

Work Environment: Wide variations in environment temperature (-10 freezer, 32-degree coolers, 40- degree plant, wet cold environment) noise, slippery floors and moving equipment.

Physical Demands: Position will include extensive standing at times, sitting, lifting, wearing factory required equipment while working in production, walking, visual, responding quickly to sounds and driving.

Position Type: Exempt, 1st shift.

Travel: Some travel may be required in this position to assist in other facilities. (Less than 5%)

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. 
 

Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test and background check are required.
 

Brakebush provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Applicants must have the legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.

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