Industrial Logistics Supervisor

Job Description

Job Description

Why Join Us

At Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors, we believe success is driven by hard work, teamwork, and continuous improvement. Our projects depend on safe, accurate, and efficient operations at every stage, giving you the opportunity to take ownership of daily yard activities and directly support our fabrication and field teams. You’ll join a team that values safety, accountability, communication, and organization, where your leadership helps keep materials and projects moving.

Company Overview

Headquartered in Avon, Indiana, Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors, LLC is a nationally recognized leader in the steel water storage tank industry. We design, fabricate, and field-erect water storage tanks for clients across the United States. Our commitment to safety, quality, and project excellence sets us apart as a trusted partner in the infrastructure sector.

Responsibilities

• Lead and work alongside yard personnel, assigning daily priorities for loading, unloading, staging, material movement, and yard organization.
• Coordinate daily shipping activities with the Logistics Manager and field teams to ensure materials and fabricated components are staged, loaded, and shipped according to project priorities.
• Safely load and unload trucks using forklifts and approved material-handling equipment, including handling loads weighing up to 10,000 pounds.
• Verify load weight, balance, stability, securement, placement, and staging sequence to support safe transportation, unloading, and field installation.
• Prepare accurate shipping lists, bills of lading (BOLs), and related documentation, ensuring physical loads match shipping records before trucks are released.
• Document quantities, job information, shortages, substitutions, and special shipping or unloading requirements and communicate discrepancies to the appropriate teams.
• Maintain timely communication with the Logistics Manager and field personnel regarding shipment status, expected arrival, delays, shortages, and changing priorities.
• Anticipate labor, equipment, staging, and scheduling needs and address or escalate potential conflicts before they affect shipments.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and organized yard that allows materials and finished components to be efficiently located, handled, and shipped.
• Conduct required equipment inspections and ensure forklifts and other material-handling equipment are operated within rated capacities and company safety requirements.
• Ensure employees follow required PPE, material-handling, load-securement, and yard safety procedures, stopping work and notifying management when unsafe conditions exist.
• Coach and hold yard personnel accountable for safety, accuracy, productivity, communication, and completion of assigned responsibilities.

Benefits & Pay

• Competitive pay based on experience and qualifications
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, and retirement plans
• Paid time off and holidays
• Opportunities for leadership development and career advancement
• Strong focus on employee safety, training, and professional development

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, bend, reach, and climb on and off equipment, trucks, and trailers.
• Frequently use hands and arms to handle materials, straps, chains, blocking, paperwork, and equipment controls.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull materials and equipment as required, using appropriate assistance or mechanical equipment when necessary.
• Ability to safely operate forklifts and other approved material-handling equipment in an active industrial yard.
• Requires sufficient vision and depth perception to judge distance, clearance, load position, equipment movement, and surrounding hazards.
• Requires sufficient hearing and communication ability to work safely around trucks, forklifts, and other industrial equipment.
• Ability to work on uneven ground and remain physically active throughout the workday.
• Required personal protective equipment must be worn as directed.

Work Environment

• Work is performed primarily outdoors in an active industrial and fabrication yard environment.
• Regular exposure to changing weather conditions, including heat, cold, rain, wind, sun, and mud.
• Regular exposure to trucks, forklifts, fabricated steel components, moving equipment, and industrial yard traffic.
• Work may involve moderate to loud noise levels.
• Must be able to work safely around large and heavy loads, including loads weighing up to 10,000 pounds.
• Position requires the ability to manage changing priorities, shipping deadlines, late trucks, material discrepancies, and other time-sensitive operational demands.