Logistics Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

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Hours

• 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) On-Site

Compensation

At S&C, we are dedicated to providing competitive and equitable compensation for all our team members, and we are committed to transparency in our pay practices. The estimated annual base salary range for this position is $106,073 - $140,549.64. Individual pay within this salary range is determined by several compensable factors, including performance, knowledge, job-related skills and experience, and relevant education or training. This role is also eligible for S&C’s annual incentive plan (AIP), subject to eligibility criteria.

Join Our Team as an Assistant Manager-Logistics!

S&C is a specialist in electric power switching and protection, providing products to the electric power industry since 1911. The Internal Logistics and Warehouse Operations team plays a crucial role in S&C's business and has a significant impact on our customers and the future of S&C. We are seeking an individual who possesses strategic vision along with solid tactical skills to join our team as an Assistant Manager.

The Assistant Manager will be responsible for developing High Performance Work Teams, optimizing material flow, and maintaining A3s to support problem solving and the company's strategic roadmap.

Additionally, the Assistant Manager will be expected to work closely with front-line leaders, such as Team Leaders and Supervisors, to improve communications, accountability, and continuously improve all warehouse operations, such as receiving, repack, putaway, production replenishment, and shipping. The ideal candidate must possess solid leadership and problem-solving skills, with constant attention to detail, and the willingness to take ownership for all areas within warehouse operations. The Assistant Manager position is also responsible for supporting and providing resources for the Supervisors to run warehouse operations, collaborating cross-functionally across the company.

Moreover, the Assistant Manager must have strong coaching and mentoring skills and be able to support senior management with the implementation of action plans, scorecards, material flow initiatives, and countermeasures when KPIs are missed. This role reports to the Director of Logistics, who is responsible for providing strategic guidance to logistics leadership and improving the business to meet the company's KPIs in safety, quality, delivery, cost and Human Development (SQDCH).

Key Responsibilities:

• Promoting safety awareness, housekeeping, investigating, and reporting on safety incidents.

• Setting and maintaining high levels of product quality, as it pertains to material flow.

• Conducting team-building meetings to promote continuous improvement principals.

• Maintaining a high level of on-time delivery to both internal and external customers.

• Performing planning functions to ensure the timely availability of staffing and materials.

• Creating and/or maintaining meaningful visuals such as KPI boards.

• Coaching and mentoring direct reports in Problem Solving and other LPS/CI activities.

• Conducting performance appraisals and regular check-ins.

• Making decisions regarding hires, promotions, corrective action, and terminations.

• Identifying training and skill development to meet departmental needs.

• Serve as a change agent by influencing, communicating, and institutionalizing a culture of simplification, standard work, process improvement and lean principles.

• Providing and monitoring training in areas such as inventory management, selecting/packing/processing product through Oracle, safe forklift navigation, consistent & timely parts delivery to assembly, along with supporting safety and departmental policies and procedures.

• Experience in a warehouse, shipping, receiving, and a material- handling distribution department.
  

Required Qualifications

• Minimum four-year college degree in a technical discipline or commensurate experience.

• Minimum of 3 years of production supervisory experience in high and low volume environments where multiple shifts of operation were in play.

• Demonstrated track record of lean manufacturing leadership, sustained improvements, and KPI attainment.

• A history of team member development for upward mobility.
  

S&C Electric is committed to equal-opportunity employment. All employees and applicants will be considered without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation to complete the application, please email us at TAsupport@sandc.com .

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In 1909, S&C Electric Company transformed the delivery of safe, reliable electricity with the invention of the Liquid Power Fuse. Today, as the world faces extreme weather events and the demand for electricity grows, S&C continues to innovate and advance the electrical grid, ensuring reliable and resilient power for homes, communities, and critical infrastructure around the world.

With a diverse, global workforce and core values around integrity, safety, and quality, S&C is a trusted industry leader and top workplace that offers meaningful careers to more than 3,500 team members. As a people-first organization, S&C is committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative workplace where team members advance their careers through robust talent-development programs and involved leadership.

S&C’s deeply rooted belief diversity fosters greater creativity, innovation, and success guides the company to advance and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture.

S&C provides a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, , Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)
• Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave

Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (KSOP) offering traditional and Roth 401(k) options and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) component; KSOP participants can receive annual ESOP company contributions of over 11% of eligible earnings (3% Core, up to 3.5% Match, Variable Periodic).