Shipping/Receiving Manager

Position Summary:                                                      

The Shipping & Receiving Manager is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all shipping, receiving, and logistics operations within a manufacturing environment. This role ensures the accurate and timely preparation, documentation, and movement of customer shipments while supporting weekly production and delivery plans. The manager leads a multi-shift team, supervises daily operations, and works closely with quality, purchasing, operations, and customer service to resolve discrepancies, address shipment issues, and maintain strong customer satisfaction.

This position also manages carrier coordination, international and domestic shipping documentation (including customs), inventory of shipping supplies, and return-to-vendor processes. The Shipping & Receiving Manager is accountable for ensuring compliance, maintaining equipment, scheduling labor, and driving efficient communication across departments to support uninterrupted production and on-time delivery performance.

Essential Functions:                                                    

• Schedule/coordinate customer shipments and trucking needs.

• Work with management and quality to determine what is required for weekly shipment plans.
• Problem solving any shipment errors
• Coordinate shipping and trucking companies and prepare shipment paperwork, including Customs documentation for all PCC customers
• Prepare final outgoing shipments including weighing, quantity, verification, banding, Affix shipping labels, complete commercial documents, and loading on to common carrier trucks
• Track and provide PODs to customers/vendors
• Proactively communicates issues, shortages, or problems to Operations Manager, indirect purchasing, and/or Customer Services Representatives;
• Track inventory on shipping containers and supplies
• Supervise all personnel and operations on all three shifts.
• Maintain equipment and make sure it is in good operating condition.
• Schedule overtime (i.e. weekends, vacations, and sickness).
• Review all salaried personnel on anniversary date, review goals with all personnel.
• Return to vendor for replacement all incorrect and over-shipments of material.
• Work with dock on correcting paperwork when wrong material is received or item count is incorrect.
• Interaction with Purchasing Department is necessary when ordering or expediting open or past-due orders.
• Interaction with Shipping/Receiving Department in order to correct receivers, bring material from warehouse, or send supplies to Crooksville Plant.

• All additional responsibilities as required or assigned.

Required Skills:                                                           

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and accountability for assignments.
• Ability to work flexible hours and a history of being dependable.
• Knowledge of inventory control, material handling, and warehouse management
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Highly organized and self-motivated individual.

Desired Skills:                                                             

• Ability to work independently as well as work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Proven problem solving and process improvement ability
• Proven experience of taking initiative and having a strong sense of urgency.

Experience & Education                                              

• A high school diploma or equivalent
• Two- or four-year degree in Supply Chain, Logistics or related field
• 2+ years supervisory or management experience
• 3+ years in shipping/receiving or warehouse operations

Physical Demands

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.