Senior Logistics Specialist

REC Silicon is committed to the holistic approach to our company benefits. Once you’re here, your family and we want you to be safe, healthy, and engaged during your rewarding career. Designed not just for our team, but also families, our benefits offer the following:

• Generous PTO: Your off time is important. We offer 144 hours of PTO per year for the first 5 years of employment. Year six, 184 hours. High maximum balance and cash out option.
• Medical/Dental/Vision: Majority of premiums paid by REC Silicon for you and your dependents. Includes virtual medical and mental health options.
• Additional Health Coverage: FSA and HSA available. Voluntary insurance options include life and AD&D, accident, hospitalization and critical illness.
• Earn More: We offer a generous annual company bonus plan in addition to salary/wage.
• 401(k) Savings Plan: Jump start your retirement with REC Silicon’s discretionary contribution and does not require an employee contribution. Match also available.
• Company-Paid Benefits: Life insurance, short & long-term disability insurance, Life Flight, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), wellness reward program, pharmacy advocacy and disease management program.
• Flexibility: We support employees through flexible work schedules and limited work from home options.
• Additional Benefits : We provide position-based clothing, travel expenses, training and additional materials needed on a case-by-case basis.

Summary

Lead and coordinate day-to-day logistics activities for the Butte facility, including inbound and outbound transportation, import/export activities, freight management, and logistics compliance, ensuring the safe, compliant, timely, and cost-effective movement of goods while providing guidance and operational support within the logistics function.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The following examples of duties and responsibilities illustrate the general range of tasks assigned to the position but are not intended to define the limits of required duties. Other essential duties may be assigned consistent with the general scope of the position.

• Lead the resolution of logistics issues and transportation disruptions, including booking changes, shipment delays, carrier constraints, customs issues, and other time-sensitive matters, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders as needed.
• Manage relationships and service performance with key carriers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, warehouses, contracted drivers, and other logistics service providers, including issue resolution, audits, site visits, and business reviews.
• Monitor and analyze freight rates, fuel costs, and transportation market trends to support budgeting, forecasting, cost management, and logistics decision-making.
• Coordinate logistics-related contracts and service agreements, including rate reviews, renewals, and service requirements, in coordination with relevant internal functions.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with applicable DOT, IMDG, import/export, and other transportation requirements, and maintain required logistics-related licenses, permits, registrations, and certifications.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve logistics processes, cost efficiency, service reliability, and operational controls.
• Provide day-to-day supervision, work direction, and training to employees performing logistics activities and provide operational coverage as needed.
• Manage domestic and international shipments from origin to destination, including bookings, transportation arrangements, shipping documentation, customs requirements, delivery coordination, and shipment tracking.
• Coordinate daily inbound and outbound shipment requirements with Customer Service, Operations, Product Management, the Distribution Center, carriers, and customers to establish priorities and ensure timely and efficient movement of products.
• Execute product shipments in company systems and ensure required shipping and invoicing information is accurate and completed on time.
• Administer freight damage claims, including investigation, documentation, carrier coordination, and resolution.
• Maintain key logistics schedules, records, and tracking tools, including the weekly gas shipping schedule and chassis inventory, ensuring accurate and timely information is available to relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications

Incumbents must have demonstrated knowledge and abilities in these areas. The requirements

listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and/or Experience

• Associate’s degree in supply chain, logistics, business, or a related field preferred, with a minimum of five (5) years of relevant logistics, transportation, or supply chain experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

• Demonstrated experience managing domestic and international transportation, preferably involving hazardous materials.
• Experience with import and export regulations, documentation, customs requirements, and processes.
• Working knowledge of import classification and Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) / Schedule B selection and usage.
• Strong knowledge of hazardous materials transportation regulations, including:
  • Department of Transportation (DOT)
  • International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG)
• Experience coordinating specialized logistics services and applying applicable transportation requirements to operational decisions.
• Experience working with freight forwarders, carriers, customs brokers, warehouses, and other logistics service providers.

Computer Skills

• Proficient Microsoft Office skills with the ability to learn new computer systems.

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to develop and maintain spreadsheets for freight cost, shipment, and logistics analysis.
• Experience with SAP, PRISM, or similar ERP/logistics systems preferred.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple shipments, changing priorities, and time-sensitive issues simultaneously.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently evaluate logistics issues and determine appropriate actions.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and exercise sound judgment in day-to-day logistics decisions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively coordinate with internal stakeholders, customers, carriers, freight forwarders, and other external parties.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Working knowledge of National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) guidelines.
• Must have and maintain a current and valid driver’s license.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required DOT Hazmat and International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) certifications.

These skills and abilities are typically acquired through a combination of education, experience, and training. This combination will provide the competence to perform the work of the position.

Environmental Responsibilities

REC is committed to managing its manufacturing operations in a manner that is environmentally responsible and protects the current and future environmental interests of all interested parties within which the company operates. It is each employee’s responsibility to recognize and report environmental concerns to appropriate management and HSE staff.

Supervisory and Budgetary Responsibilities

• Provides day-to-day supervision, work direction, and training to one non-exempt logistics employee.
• No direct budgetary responsibility.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, reach outward, reach above shoulder, climb, squat, or kneel, and bend.
• Occasionally required to sit, crawl and push/pull up to 100 pounds.
• Frequently required to lift/carry up to 20 pounds and occasionally required to lift/carry up to 50 pounds.
• Must meet vision requirements including, near, distance, color, peripheral, and depth perception.
• Must have a sense of sound, smell, and touch.
• Ability to wear standard issued Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee works in a warehouse environment (onsite and offsite) and is exposed to moving equipment and mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; and outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.