Logistics Manager

Position Summary

Crescent Logistics Managers are responsible to manage and operate a high performing reliable business committed to meeting all our customer’s needs, our company’s needs and our people’s needs. The business will operate as outlined in the Crescent Way- 3 P’s:

Purpose
Process
People

While building on our culture of:

Doing it Right
Doing it Safe
Doing it Well.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Safety

Read and understand the Crescent Safety Playbook – Doing it Safe.
Ensure a Work Environment which is safe and maintained where our people can safely grow and develop.
Continually seek out and remove all forms of risk.

People

Select the best people to be part of Crescent
Train to ensure each person is competent.
Assess to ensure the fair and accurate evaluation of each person’s performance and potential.
Recognize to ensure each person feels appreciated for the value they provide.
Develop method to collect people feedback and ensure proper and timely response is provided.

Productivity

Maximize site capacity and output capability through the planning and scheduling of all resources.
Assess / verify the ongoing need for resources.
Validate the use and continuous improvement of all production and operational processes.

Quality

Determine and adhere to all quality standards.
Ensure our customer need for quality is understood and build into each process.
Ensure the root cause for all escapes is identified and corrected.
Ensure inventory accuracy.

Data Integrity

Operate with a reporting system/tools ensuring the complete integrity of all data.

Customer Value

Understand the nuances of each customer and their needs.
Report well documented and accurate metrics – DSR’s and KPI’s
Build a strong reputation with our customer as being a customer centric business leader/manager.

Financial

Align and optimize all resources to meet or exceed annual budget targets
Identity and use competitive suppliers

Cultural Competencies

Do It Right

Doing what is right for our Customers, doing what is right for our Company and doing what is right for our People. Continually improving the quality of our product and services. Monitoring and measuring every key ingredient which could negatively impact our quality. Doing it Right ensures we will always be a Premier Service Provider.

Identifier and champion of change opportunities, adept at countering resistance to change and an advocate for continuous improvement
Provide direction and rally the team impetus, forge teams
Provides constructive performance feedback
Willingness to make personnel changes
Develops readiness for delegation to others and then does delegate to others
Willing to take calculated risks

Do It Safe

Providing a safe environment and supporting our people to reach their highest potential. A safe environment where all forms of risk are assessed and controlled. A safe environment open to new ideas, where our people’s opinions and overall well-being count. A diverse environment where everyone fits and can be successful.

Self-assured
Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker and listener
Patient
Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontation situations
Solution vs. blame oriented
Mixture of firmness and flexibility
Has energy and enthusiasm
Holds self and others accountable

Do It Well

Optimizing all our resources to efficiently and effectively perform all tasks well. Our overall productivity as a company is a reflection of the thousands of activities performed well each and every day by everyone. At Crescent, our ability to Do it Well is a real source of pride valued by our customers.

Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people
Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not
Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
Has sense of urgency
Follows up to ensure quality task completion

Work Environment / Physical Demands

Fast paced environment, requiring Logistics l Managers to adapt to continuous changes in schedules, volumes, staffing and shift requirements.