Shipping in the logistics context refers to the movement of goods/products from company to company. The actual process needs a lot of labor whereas a shipping supervisor observes seamless and efficient working of the process.
Shipping is a long and tedious process. This in turn highlights that it utilizes substantial amount of cost and resources. Hence it always is the shipping supervisor’s responsibility, to minimize the cost as much as possible. A shipping supervisor has multiple monitoring tasks such as planning the shipping schedule, amount and quality of the goods while packing and unpacking, service quality of the labor, timely availability of the transportation means, the legal documentation and formalities and so on.
Given below is shipping supervisor resume sample.
Sample Shipping Supervisor Resume:
Tom Green
456, X Street, Y Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA-90003
(123) 456-7890
tom@email.com
Career Objective:
To seek the position of shipping supervisor in a highly professional logistics organization
Summary of Qualifications:
- Highly dedicated and immensely experienced shipping supervisor
- Perfect understanding of the gigantic scope and huge work load involved in shipping work with the capability to deliver consistently good performances
- Excellent supervisory skills. Able to control and motivate subordinates
- Proven track records of successful and timely completion of assigned work without compromising work quality
- Close exposure to the mental stresses arising out of the deadlines. Knowledge of handling the same
- Highly flexible in terms of work duration and timings
- Able to train people irrespective of their qualification, gender or designation
- Strong hand at using the MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Power point) and the World Wide Web platform
- Able to speak highly fluent English
Professional Work Experience:
MNC Pvt Ltd, Los Angeles CA (2004-Present)
Shipping Supervisor
- Monitoring the labor works; instructing and guiding them for improving their work efficiency
- Supervising the clerical records being maintained during the packing and unpacking process
- Observing and confirming the status of the products/goods as specified in the invoices
- Assigning or revoking work to a particular worker/group
- Monitoring the incoming and outgoing shipping activities to ensure accuracy, completeness and condition of shipments
- Determining the space requirements and arrangements of the shipment items and instructing the subordinates accordingly
- Ensuring strict adherence to the permitted loading limits and fulfillment of all the legal documentation and other formalities
- Monitoring the loaded vehicles to ensure accomplishment of the planned shipping load specifications as well as all the safety and security measures
- Maintaining complete coordination and synchronization among the shipping activities and handling conflict situations
- Ensuring the vehicle is set for traveling by observing the vehicle’s maintenance reports
- Motivating and encouraging subordinate clerks and the workers to follow the deadlines and the setting quality standards
- Preparing detailed reports of daily work and forwarding it to the senior officials
Academic education:
- Bachelor of Business Administration from California State University, Los Angeles, CA (2002)
- Masters of Business Administration with logistics major from California State University, Los Angeles, CA (2004)
References: Will be available on request
