Coordinator, Logistics

Job Summary

The Logistics Coordinator develops, organizes and manages the domestic and international transportation functions for Avient facilities and warehouse locations. Individual will also assist with the warehouse replenishment and inventory management functions for company facilities and warehouses.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Work with Company computer system to review shipping orders and release documentation to Company facilities and warehouses so orders can be shipped on a timely basis.

Required daily interactions with: Transportation companies, all levels of Company management, other employees, customers.

• Arrange Transportation for domestic shipments.
• Obtain and distribute freight quotes; filing and retention of freight quote details.
• Daily outgoing shipments and procedures to Company facilities and warehouses.
• Prepare Shipping Paperwork.
• Arrange Transportation for International Shipments.
• Obtain and distribute international freight quotes; filing and retention of freight quote details.
• Scheduling of international shipments with Freight Forwarders, Steamship Lines and Express Companies.
• Prepare shipping documentation required for individual shipments.
• Audits and codes freight bills in preparation for payment of invoices.
• Unloads goods and material received, enters appropriate information into system, labels and locates material.
• Separates customer orders. Pulls and stages orders. Repacks material if required to meet customer specifications. As required, makes boxes, packs, labels and locates materials.
• May perform functions/transactions in designated system to receive or ship material.
• Participates in cycle counting. Enters and verifies information. Researches and makes adjustments as necessary.
• Reviews preventative maintenance check sheets for forklifts. Ensures good working order of machines.
• Follows and complies with all safety and work rules and regulations. Maintains departmental housekeeping standards.
• May be required to handle the accumulation, disposal and transportation of hazardous waste. If required to do so, must participate in prerequisite training in order to meet RCRA waste management requirements.

Reporting:

• Generate and Monitor Vendor Complaints; enter Vendor Complaint, obtain corrective action information and enter details in database to close complaint.
• Preparation of reporting the tracking of Late Shipments from company locations.

Inventories:

• Entering Laboratory Prepared sample material (LABS) into inventory in preparation for shipment to Customer locations.
• Perform Physical Inventory and/or Cycle Counts, as required.
• Working in close coordination with Department Supervisor, maintain adequate levels of finished goods in company warehouses to ensure that Customer Orders can be shipped complete and on a timely basis.
• Work with Department Supervisor to maintain approved carrier list and ensure that all PPD & PPA shipments are transported via these approved carriers.
• Other projects/duties as assigned or needed.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience

• Bachelors in any Discipline.
• Professional work experience more than 3 years for similar role.
• Candidates who has worked for manufacturing company and managed a large number of RMs through SAP MRP is most preferred.
• Candidates from Polymer, Pigments and chemical industry is preferred.

Additional Qualifications

• Strong competencies in MS-Office, Specially Excel - Macro Developments, SAP.

Avient Leadership Behaviors:

We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self, a leader of others, or a leader of the business.

By playing to win, acting customer centric, driving innovation and profitable growth, collaborating seamlessly across Avient, and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avient’s strategic goals, to meet our customer needs, and to accomplish your career goals.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is frequently required to walk, stand and sit.
• Specific vision abilities may be required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals, and fumes or airborne particles.
• The noise level in the work environment ranges from normal office noise levels to loud.