Logistics Manager

U.S. Lumber, an SBP Brand, is currently looking for a Logistics / Transportation Manager to join our team for the overall management of all transportation personnel and equipment.

In this role you will focus on:

• Personnel:

  • Recruiting drivers, on an ongoing basis, to add, replace and/or upgrade. Being ever mindful of the system wide shortage of drivers, working with HR to maximize retention and discovering opportunities for identifying qualified candidates. Having a very thorough understanding of the hiring process and providing complete documentation to HR for approval. Hiring, indoctrinating and training of new drivers – safety, processes, systems, qualifications.
  • Supervising and interacting with drivers on an ongoing basis. Maintaining a visible presence with each driver and engaging and soliciting process improvement input. Conducting regular training and driver meetings on at least a quarterly basis. Conducting a documented employee review as appropriate, but at least annually. Securely maintaining an employee personnel file for each employee.
  • Thoroughly reviewing the previous day’s routes. Auditing logs, hours, inspections and route completion on a first thing daily basis. Tracking driver’s progress during the day.
  • Constructively disciplining and documenting inappropriate or marginal performance, including, but not limited to, all DOT infractions and customer service and safety issues.
  • Maintaining morale and providing a safe and harmonious work environment.
  • Managing work schedules and daily hours of service to insure that there are sufficient hours available at the end of the week, while maximizing weekly hours of service. Calculating weekly payroll and submitting on a timely basis.
  • Developing creative and fluid driver incentives to focus attention on key opportunities for improvement.
  • Evaluating driver performance on the road by personally conducting an ongoing ride along, ride behind program.

   

  Equipment:

  • Insuring that all motorized equipment is operated appropriately and safely and only by trained, qualified, licensed operators – on the road and around the yard.
  • Insuring that equipment is inspected daily and all issues reported are corrected same day, particularly as it relates to curtain trailers.
  • Maintaining an onsite inventory of essential equipment supplies and managing competitive replenishment.
  • Maintaining a close relationship with vendor representatives and documenting and reporting service issues and periodically reviewing service and pricing with each vendor.
  • Investigating any damage done by an employee to equipment immediately and implementing disciplinary and corrective action as appropriate.
  • Tracking hours and verifying usage is balanced to insure the fleet is not over or under utilized.
  • Completing a thorough inspection of trucks and trailers monthly with the assigned driver and documenting in the Truck Book.
  • Insuring that PM’s are conducted as prescribed on all equipment.

   

  Safety:

  • Fostering a culture of safety, in letter and spirit, throughout the organization.
  • Managing the safety indoctrination and ongoing training program.
  • Insuring that PPE is available and all drivers are wearing PPE at all times.
  • Insuring that material is safely loaded and properly secured.
  • Investigating and documenting all accidents and incidents, both occurrences and near-misses, and developing processes to correct. Utilizing occurrences as a training and feedback opportunity. Investigate “How’s My Driving” calls and documenting action taken.
  • Understanding DOT and CSA standards and requirements and insuring they are met or exceeded in every instance. Implementing standardized, repetitive training to insure driver understanding.
  • Closely monitoring injured employees and remaining up-to-date on days away.
  • Understanding recordable and non-recordable accident and interacting with Human Resources on status of injured employees.
  • Understanding DAWFII scoring and the impact on rating and insurance.

   

  Inventory:

  • Minimizing and investigating damage in transit and upon delivery.
  • Managing customer returns to insure accuracy and that material is acceptable for return to stock, and notifying sales management when it is not. Insuring that customer returns are scheduled, picked up promptly, protected in transit and tagged for return to stock.

   

  Customer Relations:

  • Championing a sales-oriented culture and environment as it relates to external and internal customers.
  • Insuring that all drivers are in approved, neat, fresh and clean uniforms.
  • Responding promptly to requests and seek to over-serve.
  • Handling customer returns with a great attitude and a very high sense of urgency.
  • Instilling in driver the “yes or I’ll check” response to customer requests and when to use which response.
  • Teaching drivers the benefits of a friendly, cooperative attitude with customers as it relates to getting unloaded and on their way.

   

  Technology:

  • Committed to leading the transition to dynamic routing.
  • Committed to turn by turn GPS route fulfillment.
  • Thorough understanding and familiarity with the technology available and committed to utilization and continuing education on each - Appian, XRS and CoPilot.

   

  Expense and Financial Statement Management:

  • Investigate and approve all payables promptly.
  • Maximizing route capacity and review chronic “light” routes.
  • Closely managing the “Big Five” – labor, equipment, fuel, repairs, supplies
  1. Labor – Hours, fulltime and temporary, regular and overtime, incentive plans
  2. Equipment – Leased and rented
  3. Fuel – Price and Miles Per Gallon
  4. Repairs – Trucks and Trailers
  5. Supplies – Straps, bungees, lights, mud flaps, etc.

Qualifications: 

• Three to five years of distribution warehouse management experience with P&L responsibility.
• Lumber industry warehouse experience is preferred.

Specialty Building Products is the leading distributor of specialty building products in North America. SBP operates under the brands U.S. LUMBER, Alexandria Moulding, REEB Millwork, DW Distribution, Millwork Sales and Amerhart. We serve 45 states in the U.S. and 8 provinces in Canada from over 40 locations. Here at SBP we are a people first organization, our team is built upon strong culture and standards for success. We value your perspective and want to learn more about you with a commitment to laying the foundation for you to build a successful career with us. Join us and EVOLVE your future at Specialty Building Products!

Being a part of SBP you will be eligible for many benefits. Full-Time benefits would include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision given on the 1^st of the month following 30 days of employment
• Company-Paid Life Insurance & Disability
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Company-Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays & Floating Holidays
• PLUS ADDITIONAL PERKS!

Serving our communities:

We are also committed to our core value of “using our influence to have a uniquely positive impact” on the people that we touch. Through our initiatives we encourage and incentivize our employees to aid fellow employees in need and to better serve our communities and the people we directly influence.

We are proud to have the best team in our industry. We have experienced a tremendous amount of growth as a company. This growth has served not only our customer base but has also provided significant opportunities for advancement amongst our employees.

Specialty Building Products is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy of Specialty Building Products not to discriminate in hiring and employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, military status, genetic information, or other protected class status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.