Daylight Transport, LLC

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Job Title: Operations Supervisor Department: Operations Reports To: Operations Manager FLSA Status: Exempt Location: Houston, TX (By the Hobby Airport) Shift Days: Sunday to Thursday or Monday to Friday depending on freight levels. Shift Hours: Being flexible on both shifts is key as the ideal candidate will need to work between 8 - 10 hours per day on either day or night shift. SUMMARY: At Daylight we owe our success to the efficiency of our organizational processes. To help maintain and grow this standard, we’re seeking an experienced operations manager to oversee daily activities. As an ideal candidate, you’ll have a sharp business mind and proven success managing multiple departments within the operation toward maximum productivity. You’ll be highly skilled in employee relations, operational metrics, and overall coaching as stablished leader. Additionally, you’ll display a proven ability to develop and maintain an environment of trust, diversity, and inclusion within your team. Your ultimate responsibility is to increase our operational efficiency within Daylight Transport, as we continue to learn, innovate and succeed together. RESPONSIBILITIES: • Manages all employee work schedules and time off requests. • Closely works with the Assistant Manager and/or Service Center Manager to ensure alignment in meeting daily/weekly/monthly and yearly business objectives. • Maintain constant communication with upper management, staff, and vendors to ensure proper operations of the service center. • Develop, implement, and maintain quality assurance protocols. • Grow the efficiency of existing organizational processes and procedures to enhance and sustain the organization’s internal capacity. • Actively pursue strategic and operational objectives. • Ensure operational activities remain on time and within a defined budget. • Conducts daily inspections to ensure compliance with local state, federal safety regulations, as well as OSHA in conjunction with the safety team. • Strive for continuous improvement in all areas of service center operations. • Knowledge of Truckmate system and any other computer/internal freight monitoring systems used. • Diligently monitors freight movement. • Makes quick and informed decisions based on the volume levels and communicates schedule to affected employees by using manpower worksheet. • Works assigned shift/s as needed, must be available to work depending upon customer pickup and delivery schedules. • Monitors and evaluates the safety of each employee daily, trains on safety processes as needed. • Keeps strategic relations with Linehaul operations to monitor freight movement. • Manages, assigns employees around the dock to ensure proper utilization and development of employees, equipment, loading and unloading while meeting Daylight’s and customer expectations. • Lead, motivate, and support a large team within a time-sensitive and demanding environment, including setup and implementation of career development plans through Catalytic Coaching for all direct reports and problem resolution. • Manage timely data collection to update operations metrics to achieve productivity targets, reduce cost per unit, eliminate errors, and deliver excellent customer service. • Partner with cross-functional support teams in improving the proprietary tools and systems. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES – Yes. QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE – High School diploma or General Education degree (GED) required. Preferred of three (3) to five (5) -year of leading Management experience and/or training. LANGUAGE SKILLS - Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers and other employees of the organization. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS - Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. REASONING ABILITY- Apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. Must possess analytical skills and ability to think quickly. OTHER SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS - Computer literate, PC and mainframe; Previous forklift experience a plus, must be able to have a flexible work schedule in order to meet customer pickup and delivery schedules. Proficiencies with all Microsoft working tools (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.) 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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to walk/stand; use hands to finger or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to speak or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. 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. The noise level in the work place environment is usually high to moderate, ability to withstand severe weather conditions as the environment is a typical warehouse environment, in which you may experience extreme cold and/or extreme heat. Daylight Transport is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability. Job Type: Full-time Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year Benefits: • 401(k) • 401(k) matching • Dental insurance • Flexible schedule • Health insurance • Paid time off • Vision insurance Application Question(s): • Sunday to Thursday or Monday to Friday depending on freight levels. Being flexible on both shifts is key as the ideal candidate will need to work between 8 - 10 hours per day on either day or night shift. Can you work this type of schedule? Education: • High school or equivalent (Preferred) Experience: • Freight: 1 year (Preferred) • Operation Supervisor: 1 year (Preferred) Work Location: In person