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Manager, Distribution Services 499450
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Position Number: 2205604
Location: Beaumont, TX
Position Type: Facilities Management

Manager, Distribution Services 499450

Position Type: Staff

Position Number: 20112086

Department: Logistical Support

Job Summary/Basic Function:
Job Summary:

This position manages workers engaged in shipping, receiving and postal services.

The manager oversees the receiving, distributing, and shipping of parcels, packages and freight.

The manager consults and advises on proper mailing, shipping and receiving procedures and acts as a liaison between the United Postal Service, United Parcel Services, FedEx Express/Ground, or other courier services, and Lamar University personnel.

The department is also responsible for all inter-office, office-to-office, and building-to-building moves of furniture and equipment. The department provides boxes for office transitions and moves boxes and furniture to the new designated space.

Major Essential Job Functions:

Oversees & supervises distribution of daily material deliveries.

Reviews incoming materials and receiving logs for scheduling of campus deliveries; ensuring proper storage of materials; obtaining inspection of damaged freight and preparing necessary claim forms; coordinating data input; verifying accuracy of receipts and shipments, as well as documentation of transactions handled by department personnel.

Reviews and logs work orders for scheduling based on need

Work requires supervising and monitoring performance for a group of subordinates within a department including providing input on hiring/disciplinary actions and work objectives/effectiveness, performance evaluations, and realigning work as needed.

Secondary Essential Job Functions

Work requires contacts with coworkers from other organizational units of the University, primarily non-department heads, and students, vendors, and the general public. Resourcefulness is required to reach or adjust working agreements within departmental procedures and operating needs.

Focus on Customer Service:
* Focuses on customer's needs and expectations. (Customers can be students, external constituents, employees, or university guests.) * Respectfully ascertains customer's needs and determines appropriate response. * Promptly responds by providing requested information, takes appropriate action, or refers customer to appropriate individual or department. * If further actions need to be taken, advises customers of realistic timeframes for a response to their request. * Follows up with customers on outstanding requests in a timely manner. * Tactfully explains to customers why their needs and/or expectations cannot be met if the university does not provide the requested information or services.

Other Duties as Assigned
Other duties may be assigned to this position on a regular or occasional basis to respond to needs of the university.

Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum Education Required:
Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature which may be obtained with a two-year associates degree, diploma or equivalent from a college, technical, business, vocational, or correspondence school. Appropriate certification may be awarded upon satisfactory completion of advanced study or training.

Minimum Experience Required:
5 years of related work experience.

Certification(s) Required:
Forklift Operators License; Valid Class C Texas Drivers License

Key Competencies:
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills and ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
Excellent organizational skills and problem-solving skills.
Maintain high levels of accuracy in daily operations.
Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
Maintain high levels of accuracy in daily operations.
Maintain a clean, safe, work environment.

Physical Requirements:
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds; balance required; occasional Stooping/Bending; 50% of time spent sitting, 30% of time standing, 20% of time walking; occasional overhead, and horizontal reaching.

Job Conditions:
Works in both a warehouse and an office environment.
General air-conditioned environment, but occasional exposure to cold and heat; occasional exposure to wet/dry environment; occasional exposure to noise and vibrations;
Normal physical hazards office environment; occasional exposure to fumes/dust/odors

Lamar Expectation of Quality:
Employee will support the mission of Lamar by providing high quality, professional services, timely responses and solutions to customer requests.

Preferred Qualifications:

Security Sensitive Statement:
This position is security-sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of the Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes the employer to obtain criminal history record information.

Salary: Commensurate with Experience

Work Hours:

Posting Date: 03/17/2021

Close Date:

Open Until Filled: Yes

Special Instructions:

To apply, visit https://jobs.lamar.edu/.

Lamar University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of Lamar University not to discriminate on the basis of non-relevant criteria including, but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status in its educational programs, activities, admissions or employment practices.