DEADLINE: 15/09/2024

Assistant Logistics Manager

Full-time

Steel & Tube is hiring an Assistant Logistics Manager

Qualifications:
• Degree in economics/accounting/commerce; and diploma in procurement, (CIPS) is added advantage

Experience:
• 7 years plus

Primary Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement technical plans, schedules and responsibility for all logistics.
• Direct availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.

• Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, scheduling and tracking work assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring the availability of resources.
• Plan, organize, and execute logistics support activities such as maintenance planning, repair analysis, and test equipment recommendations.

• Redesign the movement of goods in order to maximize value and minimize costs.

Secondary Responsibilities
• Make periodic reports on project plans, progress, and results.
• Prepare purchase orders and send copies to suppliers and to departments originating requests.

• Determine if inventory quantities are sufficient for needs, ordering more materials when necessary.

• Contact suppliers in order to expedite deliveries, resolve shortages and other problems.

• Review requisition orders in so as to verify accuracy, terminology, and specifications.
• Check shipments when they arrive to ensure that orders have been filled correctly and that goods meet specifications.

• Compare suppliers’ bills with proforma invoices and purchase orders in order to verify accuracy.
• Approve logistical bills for payment within authorized limits.

• Maintain knowledge of all organizational and governmental rules affecting purchases.
• Monitor contractor performance, recommending contract modifications when necessary.
• Prepare invitation-of-bid forms and mail forms to supplier firms or distribute forms for public posting.
• Manage subcontractor activities, reviewing proposals and developing performance specifications.
• Protect and control proprietary materials.
• Review logistics performance with managers against targets, benchmarks and service agreements.
• Must wear PPE and adhere to all safety rules
• To understand, Implement and maintain all ISO systems in the company.
• Perform any other duties as they may be assigned

Authority:
• Reports to the Operations Manager

Interfaces: (titles of people you deal with, e.g. from other departments, sections, customers)
• Clearing agents
• Suppliers and security firms
• Customers
• Shop managers, dispatch supervisor, marketing manager, sales manager

Health, Safety and Environmental responsibilities and Ethics:
• Ensure cleanliness in and around the workplace.
• Enforce PPE usage by employees in the plant at all times.
• Guidance and on-the job training of workers especially new ones in good environmental maintenance and safer working procedures in order to reduce occupational accidents.
• Assist management to identify resources required to improve EHS in the company.
• Ensure good housekeeping in the plant i.e. immediate cleaning of coolants and oil spillages, emptying of waste bins, shift of scrap from respective workplace.
• Ensure proper use of waste bins and their availability at the designated respective locations in the plant
• Assist in taking corrective actions for any EHS deficiencies identified during audits or day to day observations
• Help casualties get immediate medical attention and also work closely with HR and systems coordinator during accidents/incident investigations
• Facilitate security of company staff and property.
• Promote health and safety at the workplace.
• Encourage teamwork for the purpose of a smooth and prosperous management
• Help create a culture and atmosphere of hard work and high personal integrity.
• Safeguard the company’s systems and Terms and Conditions of employment.

 

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About Steel & Tube

Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Kampala, Uganda
With a well-trained team, to manufacture and sell better quality steel products at competitive prices through continual innovation and best practice of safety & ethics so as to satisfy customers and other stakeholders while maintaining a sustainable environment that supports the needs of current and future generations.

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