Logistics Planner (Quinnesec, MI)
Job description
Purpose:
Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Billerud’s mission to lead the way when it comes to challenging conventional packaging and business? Our decisions are guided by the promise of creating a better tomorrow. Building a future where lighter, stronger, more durable and sustainable packaging is the natural choice not only requires experience and expertise, but also takes dedication, teamwork and perseverance. This is a journey that we are making together with our talented staff and our customers.
Summary Description: The position is the main contact between the mill and carriers and requires managing the daily loading schedule for truck and rail shipments by monitoring carrier appointments to ensure paper is ready to be loaded. Additional duties include export paperwork preparation, verifying rail billing, working with the spotter to have the correct equipment spotted.
Key Accountabilities:
- Monitor carrier pickup dates & ensure timely order completion
- Manage daily (truck) loading schedule for mill and off-site warehouse
- Manage Daily (rail) loading schedule
- Interact with sales, planners, Load Center on truck-related issues
- Export paperwork preparation
- Manage loads to be brought back from off-site warehouse
- Manage return loads for skid load back hauls
- Verify rail billing on a daily basis
- Interface with local warehouse on Inventory reassignment & disposition, ensuring FIFO inventory picking, expediting loads, procedural & system questions, problem resolution
- Mill inventory transactions
- Physical inventory participation
- Participate in weekend coverage requirements
- Provide backup coverage for the pulp planner
Qualifications
Required skills:
Minimum Required Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong computer & system experience
Personal qualities
Preferred Skills:
- Knowledge of order management functions (scheduling, inventory, shipping)
- Knowledge and use of applicable systems/applications: OptiVision, SAP, Excel, Cognos
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Application information
Billerud NA is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.
Why us?
- Be part of a dynamic team within Billerud
- An opportunity to contribute to a more sustainable future
- Development and career opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement and certificate courses offered through partner schools.
- Performance-based bonus
- You can choose among three medical plans designed to help you and your family stay healthy (with virtual care options!).
- Generous 401K match including discretionary annual contribution
- HSA Contribution match with additional contribution for annual preventive exam
- Dental & Vision coverage
- Company paid Disability Coverage
- Wellness rewards program
- Prescription Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
Our recruitment process may include interviews, recruitment test, reference checks and alcohol & drug testing.
Do you want to help create a sustainable future through your work?
At Billerud, we are fully committed to reduce our and our customers carbon footprint by offering high-performance paper and packaging materials. We are convinced that the right solutions can be important tools to help fight climate change. That's why we see it as our responsibility to enable the best packaging choices, for a better tomorrow.
Our proud history in the forestry and paper industry goes back more than 150 years. Since then, we’ve grown to what we are today: a world leading company in high-performing paper and packaging materials - passionately committed to sustainability, quality, and customer value. Our materials are the basis of packaging and paper products used by millions of people around the world, 24 hours a day, all year round.
We serve customers in more than 100 countries through our three business areas Liquid Packaging Board, Paper and Paper Board. Our nine production units are located in Sweden, USA, and Finland and we have around 6,000 employees in 19 countries. Our annual turnover is approximately SEK 41.2 billion and the share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. At Billerud we always put safety first, care for each other, and do what we say.
