Job Details
Digital Room is seeking an experienced Shipping Manager for our Van Nuys, CA facility. The Shipping Manager is a member of our Production Management team and reports to our Plant Manager. The Shipping Manager will provide direction, supervision, and support to the shipping team of 50+ employees.
Who We Are
Digital Room is an online leader in custom manufactured marketing and branding materials that help small and medium-sized businesses drive growth. Digital Room operates where most companies can t at the intersection of digital asset manipulation and physical marketing collateral. Our customers use our ecommerce technology to let their imaginations soar and flex their creative muscles with supreme confidence in Digital Room s execution of their vision.
From there, our robust manufacturing technology coupled with our elite operations teams across our many facilities ensure that companies of all sizes stand out from the crowd. By leveraging seasoned professionals, state-of-the-art equipment, and our purpose built and internally developed ecommerce and order fulfillment systems and applications, we prepare and produce each item to the exact specifications provided.
We build solutions that fit. Our technology, tools and methodologies are available to small and medium-sized businesses through more than a dozen ecommerce channels and allow SMBs to quickly produce marketing and branding materials that are uniquely customized to their needs for a fair and competitive price.
Experience Required:
- Bachelor's degree in business (or other related field) or equivalent experience
- Experience managing personnel of 25+ employees for 3+ years.
- Manufacturing production experience.
- Printing Industry experience a plus.
- Lean Manufacturing experience a plus.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Proactive with a high level of organization.
- Project management skills.
- Excellent understanding of lean manufacturing
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite and other project management software
- Knowledge of material requirements planning (MRP) systems
- Knowledge of manufacturing equipment
- Bilingual - English/Spanish a must
Essential Functions/Responsibilities:
- Overseeing manufacturing and production processes.
- Planning, directing and running optimum day-to-day department operations to ensure on-time commitments to our customers.
- Works closely with the leads and assistant managers in gathering information and tracking progress against approved milestones.
- Works with the leads/assistant managers and production team to develop and track against a production plan reflective of the defined project goals.
- Increasing production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
- Advancement of the operators to higher skill levels.
- Provides motivation, support, and guidance to all employees.
- Anticipates bottlenecks, clarifies project priorities, identifies risks, and escalates issues that cannot be internally resolved.
- Work with other departments to ensure on-time production throughout the facility and inform CS Ops of any issues affecting committed deliveries.
- Clearly defines all workflows, communicates documented processes, and ensures all practices are being refined and tuned with learnings.
- Provides regular status reports and capacity plan updates with the team.
- Identifies processes that can improve project efficiency and act as a change agent for them.
- Ensures internal department workflow and tracking documents up to date.
- Implementing/holding employees accountable for all the company s procedures and policies.
- Implementing safety, health, environment, and quality requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What You Will Get
- Competitive compensation DOE
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage available
- 401k & company match
- Paid holidays & paid time off (PTO)
- Fabulous employee discounts across all products
- Company sponsored training, lunch and learn activities and more.
- Enjoy being a vocal member of a diverse, collaborative, and evolving production team.
- Make a difference in a trusted company that is a leader in its industry.
Pay Range: $65,000 to $80,000 per year. Actual compensation within the range will depend on a variety of factors including the individual s skills, experience, qualifications, and applicable laws.
We are an equal employment opportunities employer. We are an E-Verify employer.