Terminal Supervisor - Baytown, Tx

Company Overview

Come join a winning Team! Since 1970 Plastic Express has met the bulk trucking, bulk terminal, packaging, and warehousing needs of the plastics industry. Our strategic locations, modern systems, and dedicated employees allow us to provide custom tailored logistical solutions to fulfill the most challenging needs of our customers. Plastic Express operates from 18 warehouse locations and 37 rail terminals across the US. At many of the Plastic Express sites, we also handle some Non-plastic commodities, which include; paper rolls, steel, building materials and other dry bulk materials. Plastic Express owns and operates roughly 190 trucks, with approximately 227 trailers performing full bulk truck distribution business. Plastic Express is headquartered in Houston, TX and has over 500 employees nationwide. Our goal has always been to exceed our customer's expectations, and our can do-attitude is what differentiates us from the competition.

Plastic Express employees have always been our key to success and total customer satisfaction. We are always looking for dependable & talented business professionals that will help us to grow and to continue our “Can Do” tradition.

Job Summary:

The Terminal Supervisor dispatches drivers (including himself), communicates & schedules equipment maintenance, manages rail car inventory (rail tech duty’s). They will communicate and assist TM in customer complaints. The Terminal Supervisor will communicate with drivers on daily dispatch and other company information from TM. This role will ensure that all Terminal staff are using PPE & working within safety & quality standards

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

DOT Safety Compliance

• Full Understanding of DOT HOS
• Full Understanding of company ELD equipment
• Communicate to drivers or assist in maintaining full compliance

Driver Management

• Maintain driver’s schedules and assign work tasks
• Communicate with drivers on behalf of TM

Dispatch

• Prepare daily dispatch to ensure that the drivers are being routed in an efficient and productive manner and to include product compatibility and wash requirements in regards to Plastic Express procedures.
• Interface with PLXP Customer Service Representatives to ensure the Customer Orders requests are being met.
• Serve as dispatcher and rail supervisor.
• Communicate items that will effect delivery performance.

Maintenance

• Oversee company wash/wax/and polish program to comply with Plastic Express standards.
• Ensure that all washout inspections of trailers are completed.
• Wash Tanks or supervise the activity with drivers
• Maintenance records management uploading to PXTM, communicate with tire vendors, truck and trailer vendors for service.
• Overall equipment maintenance to include;
• Manage all equipment; communicate with Terminal Manager to resolve any issues that arise.
• Ensure that all outside maintenance is being performed by qualified vendors including the tractor & trailers 90-day service intervals.

Rail Terminal

• Make arrangements for any rail yard maintenance.
• Ensure terminals and/or office housekeeping standards are being met.
• Ensure driver hook-up to railcars are being verified, prior to driver’s loading.
• Act as liaison between Plastic Express and local railroad contacts.
• Serve as Rail Tech to maintain correct and timely inventory management.
• When applicable, oversee scale compliance of Plastic Express owned scales & calibration for good working order and state & local licenses.
• Collect, maintain and/or ship Railcar Samples as requested by customer.
• Order and maintain supplies and equipment utilized in the course of normal business at the rail yard.

Sample & Seal Program

• Inputs seals into PXTM for driver traceability.
• Order and maintain sample bag & railcar seals inventory from vendors.
• Oversee sample retention and driver seal records for terminal compliance.

Qualifications:

Required Education And Experience

• Minimum education: high school diploma
• Class A driver license with experience in combination vehicles

Licenses/Certificates:

• Must maintain a current DOT medical qualification to drive while employed by Plastic Express
• Valid state issued driver’s license, Passport and clean DMV record. Class “A” CDL is required.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. These tasks include, but are not limited to:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The job requires long periods of standing while teaching a class.

Must be able to perform physical labor such as, routinely lifting up to 55 lbs., moving up to 250 pounds with proper tool(s), climbing ladders, operate control panels and working with hand tools.

Employee must possess vision abilities required by this job function to include close visual confirmation of finely printed documents, have distance vision to safely and correctly identify objects and or markings. Must have peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus on subjects or objects at any safe working distance.

Skills:

• Understanding, yet persuasive and decisive when dealing with others both internal and external to the organization
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Relationship development and management
• Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to effectively present to a broad array of employees and decision makers and ability to effectively present complex topics in a concise manner.
• Global, cultural, and environmental awareness
• Detailed oriented with a tenacious focus on results.
• Ability to recognize onsite risk factors and take appropriate action with firmness and tact.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office products at the following levels:
• Proven leadership skills – able to influence and motivate others to quickly achieve results. Ability to work independently and as part of team.
• Excellent business acumen
• Ability to organize broad groups to meet objectives and deadlines.
• Good interpersonal and management skills.
• Word, Excel, Outlook: Intermediate level of skill. PowerPoint: Basic level of skill

Additional Job Details:

Supervisory Responsibility:

• This position supervises: Drivers assigned to the Terminal, Wash Crew (when applicable), Rail Terminal Employees, Dispatchers and Mechanic (when applicable).

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment, along with routinely operating in the field and in rail yards, servicing customer’s deliveries by driving semi-trucks, loading and offloading trailers. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and printers/scanners. Role can routinely require use of hand tools working on or under trucks and trailers

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

• This is a full-time position. Must be on call for guidance 24/7, while Terminal deliveries are taking place.

Driving / Hauling Loads: At least 50% of job duties

Travel:

Little to no travel is expected for this position.

Benefits and Perks:

• Family health benefit packages
• Vacation pay after 90 days
• Holiday pay
• Company matching 401k retirement program, after a year

Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted and/or changed at any time at the discretion of management.

In line with Plastic Express’ Environmental Promise, the hired individual is expected to enthusiastically support all facets of Operation Clean Sweep; specifically, making a conscious effort to prevent pellet, flake and powder loss into the environment and ensure any spills are swiftly and effectively cleaned up.

If you have an interest in working at Plastic Express, please forward your resume including a brief work history.

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