Logistics Manager

Zipdev is looking for a Logistics Manager owns the movement of material and finished product between our client, their Mexico manufacturing operations, their vendors, and their customers. This person books and manages every mode we use — air, ocean, and ground — runs all cross-border traffic between the United States and Mexico, and keeps customs brokers, carriers, and freight forwarders working to our dates instead of theirs.
Our client builds custom retail fixtures, store environments, convention booths, and specialty builds, manufactured both domestically and in Mexico, and shipped nationwide on fixed install dates. A load held at the border or a missed sailing costs a rollout, not just a shipment. This role exists so that crossing a border is a planned, documented, repeatable step in our schedule rather than a recurring emergency.

Key Responsibilities
Cross-Border Operations (US / Mexico) Own every northbound and southbound movement between our Mexico operations, partner plants, and the US facility, from pickup to final delivery.
Plan crossings around plant schedules, border hours, carrier capacity, and install dates; build the lead time into the project schedule instead of discovering it late.
Manage US and Mexican customs brokers, transfer carriers, and bonded or in-bond moves, and hold each party to committed crossing times.
Coordinate the hand-off at the border: drayage, trailer transfers, yard staging, and the paperwork that has to travel with the load.
Track loads through the crossing and elevate holds, inspections, or document discrepancies the same day they happen.
Keep a crossing playbook current — which broker, which crossing, which carrier, what documents, how long it actually takes — so the process does not live in one person’s head.
Coordinate temporary imports and returns (IMMEX / tooling, fixtures, and display samples moving both directions) with the broker and the plant. International Freight — Air, Ocean, and Ground Quote, book, and manage all international freight across modes: air for date-critical fixtures, ocean for volume and overseas sourcing, and ground for Mexico and North American lanes.
Pick the mode by what the date and the budget actually require, and bring the trade-off to the project team early rather than defaulting to expedited freight at the end.
Manage freight forwarders and NVOCCs: book space, confirm cutoffs, monitor sailings and flights, and hold forwarders to their transit commitments.
Handle container planning and receiving: loading plans, container utilization, drayage, chassis, demurrage and detention exposure.
Manage air freight details that drive cost — chargeable weight, dimensional factors, crate build, and hazardous or oversized restrictions.
Maintain a lane-by-lane view of standard transit times and realistic buffers, and update it from what actually happened, not what was quoted. Domestic Freight and Carrier Management Manage domestic outbound and inbound freight in every mode we use: parcel, LTL, full truckload, flatbed, hotshot, and white-glove or final-mile delivery.
Build and maintain the carrier and broker bench; negotiate rates, service terms, and accessorial charges, and hold carriers accountable to them.
Schedule deliveries and dock appointments with stores, general contractors, and install crews, and confirm receiving requirements before a truck rolls.
Plan multi-store rollouts and phased deliveries so product lands in the right sequence, not all ck shipments in transit, communicate status and exceptions to project management before the customer asks.
Coordinate closely with the Warehouse Manager on pack-out readiness, staging, loading, and pickup windows. Customs, Trade Compliance, and Documentation Own the accuracy and completeness of…