Shipping Supervisor - 2nd Shift

2nd Shift (2:00 PM - 10:30 PM | Monday - Friday + overtime/weekends as required)

SHIPPING MANAGER

LATHROP, CA

($73K-85K)

Direct frontline shipping and dock operations during 2nd Shift within a fast-paced, 24-hour manufacturing environment. Lead forklift operators, loaders, and staging personnel while ensuring safe operations, efficient product flow, accurate shipments, and strong employee engagement.

The successful candidate will be a hands‑on leader who values accountability, leads by example, and creates an environment where safety, quality, and performance are non-negotiable.

• Conduct daily shift-start safety meetings and reinforce safe work practices throughout the shift.
• Ensure compliance with all PPE requirements, equipment inspections, and company safety procedures.
• Immediately address unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors, and near misses.
• Promote a culture where employees feel responsible for one another's safety.

• Lead by example and establish clear expectations for performance, attendance, safety, and conduct.
• Provide coaching, training, and constructive feedback to shift personnel.
• Recognize strong performance while consistently addressing performance issues.
• Foster a positive work environment built on fairness, consistency, and respect.

• Direct daily loading, staging, and shipping activities during peak evening dispatch hours.
• Coordinate freight movement to ensure on-time shipments and efficient dock flow.
• Monitor trailer utilization, load quality, and shipping accuracy.
• Minimize delays and improve overall dock performance.

• Monitor daily attendance and staffing requirements.
• Address attendance issues promptly and consistently according to company policy.
• Support staffing adjustments necessary to meet customer and operational requirements.

• Verify outgoing shipments meet quality and customer requirements.
• Perform routine audits of staged product and completed loads.
• Work closely with production teams to resolve issues before product is shipped.

• Review and enforce completion of daily equipment inspections.
• Ensure forklifts, scanners, dock equipment, and related assets remain safe and operational.
• Report maintenance needs promptly and remove unsafe equipment from service when necessary.

• Conduct effective shift handovers with incoming and outgoing supervisors.
• Complete accurate shift reports documenting safety, production, quality, staffing, and operational concerns.
• Communicate issues clearly to management and supporting departments.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a manufacturing, distribution, warehouse, or shipping environment.
• Minimum of 2 years of direct leadership, supervisory, lead, or team leadership experience.
• Strong understanding of shipping operations, forklift safety, dock management, and warehouse processes.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and computerized inventory or warehouse management systems.

• Experience in heavy manufacturing or high-volume industrial shipping operations.
• Experience leading teams of 8 or more employees.
• Demonstrated success improving safety, productivity, attendance, or employee retention.
• Bilingual Spanish/English communication skills a plus.

• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to read and interpret documents such as sales, business and performance reports, operating and maintenance instructions, training and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write business reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or graphic form.
• Ability to solve a variety of problems and deal with situations where limited information or standardization exists.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide in all units of measure.
• Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, costs, proportions, and volumes.

• Computer literate (MS Office including Word and Excel), data entry skills
• Application knowledge of products and production processes
• Quality standards – both ISO and QS

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