Logistics Supervisor at Lonza Inc. in Houston, Texas

Job Description:

Logistics Supervisor

Houston, TX In office

What Makes This Opportunity Unique

At Lonza AG, we strive to make a positive impact on millions of lives every day, and our Logistics Supervisor role is key to this mission. This position offers the opportunity to lead a hardworking team in a world-class life sciences facility, ensuring flawless operations and continuous improvement. You will be part of a dedicated group, working in an ambitious environment where your ideas and leadership truly matter.

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively supervise groups within Materials to ensure all customer requirements are met and performed safely and within GMP guidelines.




• Provide mentorship on addressing blocking or critical issues. Review processes to ensure compliance with policy and make necessary adjustments.




• Review daily workload to ensure adequate availability of resources.




• Ensure the development, updates and maintenance of SOPs and work instructions are complete and can be/are followed.




• Ensure the timely delivery of quality samples as well as continuous audit readiness within the Raw Material Sampling areas.




• Responsible for ensuring that material allocations for the daily production schedule are completed daily.




• Ensure that material returns from manufacturing are processed in a timely manner.




• Accountable for the completion of daily sample shipments as well as scheduled final product shipments, including all required documentation.




• Coordinate the completion of quality records for changes to shipping processes from validations and customer requests.




• Review SAP transactions to ensure clear segregation of responsibilities.




• Review transactions (i.e., Cycle Counts inventory investigations) and provide direction on how to handle root cause and corrective actions.




• Maintain audit readiness in all areas (Receiving, Shipping, Warehouse).




• Other duties as assigned.

Key Requirements

• Advanced years’ progressive experience in Warehousing/Logistics, or equivalent experience.




• GMP Logistics experience preferred.




• Familiar with Lean Manufacturing principles.




• Ability to troubleshoot (root cause analysis) and resolve problems.




• Previous Supervisor experience.




• Knowledgeable in SAP, Microsoft Office.

Every day, Lonza’s products and services positively impact millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is as important as the results themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the happiness that comes with improving lives all around the world. The happiness that comes with making a meaningful difference.