PQ Corporation Looking for Transportation Logistics Manager at The Woodlands TX Full Time

Energized by an over 200-year history as part of PQ Corporation – our company is now simpler, stronger, leaner, nimbler – and solidly positioned for growth. Ecovyst is a pure-play catalyst and services company. As catalysts for positive change, our technologies play a critical role in supporting ecological health, and propelling expansion and growth for our customers.

Our long history of innovation expertise and close customer collaboration supports the development of proprietary catalysts and services across our two industry-leading businesses, Ecoservices and Catalyst Technologies

• Ecoservices provides specialty grade high purity virgin sulfuric acid for a number of diverse and growing end uses. Among them are mining, particularly copper for electronics applications, production of lead acid batteries for all types of vehicles, water treatment, and agricultural products.

• Catalyst Technologies business is a leader in engineering proprietary and customized technologies for cleaner fuels, emissions control and waste reduction

At Ecovyst, we are prioritizing and accelerating our growing and greening initiatives, and are putting sustainability for a safer, cleaner, healthier world at the forefront of our forward strategy. At Ecovyst, we are ready for change.

Our Ecoservices division is searching for a Transportation Logistics Manager to be based in The Woodlands, TX offices.

The Transportation Logistics Manager responsibilities will include but will not be limited to the following:

Interface with transportation carriers and facilitates communications with sales and vendors. Analyzes trends and provide metrics that drive continuous improvement for transportation service.

• Establishes and maintains carrier relationships. Annually establishes service targets for each area based on the creation of performance KPIs

• Leads quarterly DOT safety audits with all carriers and maintains audit records. These audits are metric based and on-site based audits. Will also maintain a corrective action log to track and resolve safety related issues.

• Ensure compliance with all DOT and other applicable regulations

• Accessorial analysis – Review accessorial freight charges and ensure pass through invoicing to customers

• Analyze freight and accessorial trends to find potential savings

• Forecasting: Assist Director of Logistics and Transportation in creating freight spend forecasts for $70M annual freight budget

• Analyze cost trends and make suggestions on cost reductions

• Work with manufacturing site to minimize accessorial charges

• CASS – investigate rejections and main point of contact to work with CASS on alleviating rejection reasons by carrier

• Creation of processes to have carriers invoice in a way to avoid rejections

• Evaluate opportunities to streamline freight payment via CASS or other system

• Work with the Transportation Finance Analyst to alleviate and solve any issues with the freight pay system. Maintain metrics that show pay system performance and trends

• Reconciliation of carrier statements – continuous to avoid CASS and AP duplicate payments

• Freight analysis – review and analyze actual versus forecasted freight costs. Flag over accruals, double payments, etc.

• Work with the Director of Transportation and Logistics on various monthly financial reporting.

• Work with commercial team to ensure that accurate freight charges are being passed on to customers

• Manage Freight accrual process – determine shortfalls, work with Finance to improve overall process

• Create and maintain data book of major freight rates to Eco customers from Eco plants and competitor plants

• Data book to be used by supply planner and commercial group

• Work with Ecoservices Director-Procurement to ensure sulfur freight is properly captured and pass through on contracts

• Streamline logistics processes to roll out to all plants

Health, Safety, and Environmental Responsibilities:

• Reviews and discusses safety incident occurrences with Eco manufacturing facilities and truck carriers

• Enter incident into Enablon for tracking and resolution purposes.

• Provide technical support for safety resolutions and assists in development of the safety training within the department.

• Attends causal tree investigation meeting for accident/incident occurrences

• Attends monthly and quarterly safety meetings as required

• Completes computer-based training to comply with HSE requirements and policies.

• Act as a steward for maintaining excellent HSSE performance in the department and company – fulfill the HSSE Leadership Expectations.

Requirements:

Education and Work Experience:

To be successful and effective in position:

• Bachelor’s Degree or 5+ years of supply chain and transportation knowledge

• Experience in the chemical, petroleum, or petrochemical industry is preferred

• Working knowledge of DOT guidelines

• Working knowledge of Inventory Management

• Working knowledge of TMS and Freight Pay Systems

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals

• Advanced level of Excel expertise, Process Mapping and Documentation

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to communicate at all levels of an organization

• Accustomed to working independently in a fast-paced environment

• Transportation Worker’s Identification Credentials (TWIC)

Additional Requirements:

• Interprets a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, mathematical, or schedule form.

• Prepares business letters, technical paper reports, expositions, summaries, memos, electronic messages and reports, using prescribed format, and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style.

• Converses in the theory, principles, and methods of effective and persuasive speaking, voice, and diction, phonetics, and discussion and debate.

• Participates in panel discussions and debates. Speaks extemporaneously on a variety of subjects to employees within the company