Shipping Supervisor

The Mission

The Shipping Supervisor is responsible for overseeing daily shipping, receiving, warehouse, and dock operations to ensure the safe, accurate, and efficient movement of materials and finished goods. This position provides leadership and direction to warehouse and shipping personnel, coordinates inbound and outbound shipments, and ensures customer orders and production requirements are met on schedule.

The Shipping Supervisor works closely with Purchasing, Production, QA, and Shipping to ensure materials are properly received, stored, tracked, and available when needed. This role is responsible for maintaining inventory integrity, supporting continuous improvement initiatives, and ensuring compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements.

Outcomes

• Must follow and oversee all procedures for unloading, receiving, inspecting, and stocking materials. Responsible for verifying quantity and quality upon arrival, resolving damaged freight according to procedures, and ensuring all required documentation is completed accurately.
• Work closely with the Purchasing Manager to maintain accurate inventory levels and ensure material availability to support operations.
• Monitor, report, and communicate shortages, overages, inventory discrepancies, and replenishment needs.
• Responsible for the classification, labeling, storage, and organization of all inventory to ensure accuracy and accessibility.
• Maintain accurate records of inventory transfers, adjustments, disposals, and warehouse transactions.
• Implement and follow inventory control practices to minimize damage, loss, breakage, and inventory obsolescence.
• Complete cycle counts and physical inventory audits as required while maintaining inventory accuracy standards.
• Maintain warehouse organization, housekeeping, and FIFO (First In, First Out) inventory rotation standards.
• Assist in overseeing warehouse and shipping personnel, ensuring daily workloads are completed safely, efficiently, and according to schedule.
• Support daily dock operations by coordinating inbound and outbound shipments, raw material receiving, staging, and warehouse activities to ensure operational flow.
• Communicate and coordinate with Production, QA, Purchasing, Logistics, and other departments to ensure product availability, proper inventory control, and timely movement of materials.
• Ensure raw materials, packaging, and finished goods are properly identified, labeled, and stored according to company procedures and food safety requirements.
• Monitor dock schedules and assist in prioritizing workloads to support production and customer shipping requirements.
• Manage warehouse communications, reports, and email correspondence as required.
• Provide leadership and operational support in the absence of the General Manager of Logistics, assisting with daily decision-making, issue resolution, and coordination of warehouse and shipping activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned, including shipping, receiving, loading and unloading trailers, freezer work, labeling, documentation and warehouse support functions.
• This position has been identified as holding responsibility for food safety, quality, inventory accuracy, warehouse compliance, and operational support. This responsibility extends across all shifts.
• During absence, the following position serves as coverage to this position: General Manager of Logistics

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Basic computer skills.
• Microsoft Outlook email, Word, Excel etc.
• Minimum 2 years forklift experience
• Good reading, writing and math skills
• Good attention to detail
• Good organization skills
• Good communication skills
• Bilingual English/Spanish a plus

The statements made in any and all of the position postings are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

Stahlbush Island Farms, Inc is an equal opportunity employer, focused on the employment and advancement of all applicants and colleagues for employment and promotion without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

Stahlbush Island Farms is an equal opportunity employer, program auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.