operations supervisor
Bluewater Group: ?Keeps you moving? ? leaders in Warehousing & Logistics, Shipping supplies, Mobil branded Lubricants, for over 50 years. Bluewater Group has won the Deloitte Canada?s Best Managed Companies Award 12 years in a row!
Bluewater Group is an expanding organization that currently employs over 450 people across the country. We are on an exciting path of continued growth that will offer exceptional career opportunities. Bluewater is an excellent learning environment for seasoned and inexperienced candidates who enjoy taking on new challenges and share the same core values as us _Integrity, Attitude, Customer Focus, Accountability, and Continuous Improvement._
At Bluewater Group we are committed and dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where our team feels comfortable to come to work everyday and most importantly enter the work environment knowing that they belong.
*Job Summary*
We are looking for a Operations Supervisor to leads the shipping and turnaround functional groups and is accountable for safe, accurate and timely outbound warehouse and turnaround material operations. This role plans work and staffing at our location; oversees material readiness, staging, cargo verification, documentation and dispatch; and coordinates post-turnaround returns and reconciliation. Working directly with the client, warehouse, offshore, vendor and logistics stakeholders, the supervisor maintains material traceability, regulatory compliance and service continuity while coaching employees and resolving operational issues.
*Duties and responsibilities*
- People Leadership & Work Coordination
- Lead the shipping and turnaround functional groups and provide day-to-day supervision to assigned Material Handlers, Shippers, forklift operators and staging personnel.
- Plan, assign, prioritize and monitor daily work and shift coverage, adjusting available resources to meet workload, service requirements and transportation cut-offs.
- Lead safety huddles and operational handovers, communicating priorities, critical material status, schedule changes and work constraints.
- Coach employees, reinforce standards, identify training and cross-training needs, and support formal performance or attendance management with the Operations Manager.
- Maintain functional-group standard work, records and communication routines while promoting accountability, respectful teamwork and continuous improvement.
- Turnaround Planning & Material Readiness
- Review turnaround material lists, work-pack requirements, purchase-order status and need dates; maintain the readiness and shortage view and communicate schedule risks.
- Ensure materials are received, inspected and validated against purchase orders, packing lists, specifications and supporting certification, with discrepancies addressed promptly.
- Ensure materials are identified, tagged, preserved, kitted and staged by work package, priority, destination or other approved control method.
- Coordinate warehouse, vendor, carrier and offshore stakeholders to align material availability, staging and loadout with approved turnaround and logistics plans.
- Shipping, Cargo Control & Documentation
- Oversee outgoing shipments and final physical audits against pick lists, manifests, transfer requests and other approved shipping records before loading or release.
- Supervise staging and loading, verifying material identity, quantity, condition, destination, weight distribution and cargo securing for trucks, containers, marine baskets and other transport units.
- Ensure bills of lading, manifests, transfer records and dangerous-goods documentation are accurate and completed by trained and authorized personnel, with required packaging, marking, labelling, placarding and segregation controls.
- Maintain audit-ready chain-of-custody records for outbound movements, driver signoffs and carrier hand-offs.
- Monitor dispatch schedules and reprioritize personnel and staging activity to meet carri