Longshoreman IV - Stevedoring

Are you ready to take the next step in your career and put your leadership skills to work? Join our team at Port Manatee as a Stevedoring Foreman, where you’ll lead longshore crews, oversee critical cargo operations, and make a direct impact on the safety, productivity, and success of our terminal.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced stevedoring professional who enjoys leading teams, solving problems, and working in a hands-on maritime environment. You’ll help drive productivity, promote a strong safety culture, and ensure cargo operations run smoothly while working closely with vessel personnel, equipment operators, and terminal leadership. If you take pride in leading by example and making a direct impact on daily operations, we invite you to bring your experience and leadership to our team.

Take this opportunity and come do great things with us!

What do you gain from being part of Logistec?

• Competitive compensation
• Benefits and 401K
• Opportunities for career growth and development

What your day looks like as a Stevedoring Foreman:

• Direct and coordinate longshore crews during vessel loading and discharge operations, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and according to established cargo plans.
• Assign job duties, communicate work instructions, monitor productivity, and provide guidance to crew members throughout cargo operations.
• Oversee the handling, movement, staging, loading, unloading, stowage, and securing of breakbulk cargo, including steel products, lumber, machinery, and other general cargo.
• Coordinate with crane operators, signal persons, vessel personnel, truck drivers, warehouse staff, and terminal management to maintain efficient cargo flow.
• Ensure proper use of rigging, slings, chains, wire ropes, spreader bars, forklifts, winches, and other cargo-handling equipment by trained and authorized personnel.
• Monitor cargo securing, lashing, blocking, bracing, dunnaging, and stowage activities to protect personnel, vessels, equipment, and cargo from damage.
• Conduct work-area and equipment safety checks, identify potential hazards, and take prompt corrective action when unsafe conditions arise.
• Enforce company safety policies, required personal protective equipment (PPE), terminal rules, and applicable OSHA and maritime safety requirements.
• Report accidents, injuries, near misses, cargo damage, equipment defects, spills, and other operational concerns to the appropriate management personnel.
• Monitor cargo tallies, identification, marking, segregation, and related documentation to support accurate cargo tracking and reporting.
• Maintain housekeeping standards and ensure vessel decks, docks, warehouses, and work areas remain organized and free of unnecessary hazards.
• Support operational planning, communicate delays or resource needs, and assist management in resolving issues that may affect vessel schedules or productivity.
• Provide on-the-job guidance to crew members and reinforce safe work practices and proper cargo-handling procedures.
• Perform other related stevedoring and terminal duties as assigned.

To succeed as a Stevedoring Foreman you must have:

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Previous experience in longshore operations, stevedoring, breakbulk cargo handling, or a related maritime or industrial environment required or strongly preferred.
• Prior leadership experience directing crews, assigning work, or overseeing cargo-handling operations preferred.
• Knowledge of breakbulk cargo handling, rigging, slinging, cargo securing, and vessel loading and discharge procedures.
• Ability to read and follow cargo plans, work instructions, safety procedures, and operational documentation.
• Strong communication, coordination, and…