Terminal Manager

Summary: Effectively lead and manage terminal operations and employees for either marine, rail, or truck sourced facilities. Maintain adequate inventories to ensure customer satisfaction.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate incoming product with Transportation Manager.

• Assign and contribute to specific duties of terminal workforce, such as the unloading of incoming product, handling and delivery of product either by rail, truck or barge.

• Manage terminal staff and operations including administrative requirements.

  • Planning: Create schedules; revise plans for changing circumstances; create lists of duties including short and long-term objectives.

  • Motivator: Encourage cooperation between team members; Gain willing cooperation and get individuals to carry out unappealing tasks; ease stressful situations; understand personal needs or motives of others; encourage individual to work at their potential.

  • Appraising/ Evaluating: Undertake job of training others; Appraise performance of individuals; appraising the personal development of individuals

• Monitor the load out of product to customers.

• Generate bills of lading.

• Insure overall terminal appearance and security.

• Develop and manage terminal budgets.

  • Cost Consciousness: Work within approved budget; Develop and implement cost saving measures; Contribute to profits and revenue; Conserve organizational resources.

• Maintain and repair equipment and facilities, including preventive maintenance.

• Maintain inventory of repair and maintenance parts and lubricants.

• Monitor and maintain proper inventory levels through record keeping in coordination with distribution and sales to ensure customer satisfaction.

• Coordinate and oversee office operations.

• Determine capital needs and justification for terminal procedures and potential growth opportunities.

• Ensure the terminal is in compliance with safety and environmental standards.

  • Implement and observe safety and security procedures; Determine appropriate action beyond guidelines; Report potentially unsafe conditions; Use equipment and materials properly.

• Maintain good relationships with customers, vendors, and civic organizations.

• Maintain all requirements for Homeland Security, including acting as the Facility Security Officer (FSO) and following all aspects of the Facility Security Plan (FSP), as required by the U.S. Coast Guard.

• Ensure all employees and customers follow all aspects of the Company Safety Standards and Policies.

• Able to accommodate various work shifts as needed including boat arrivals, support for call offs, weekends, holidays, etc. 

Additional Qualifications:

Education: One-year certificate or trade school with one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education, experience and mechanical ability.

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Computer Skills: Knowledge of Database software; Internet software; Inventory software; Order processing systems; Spreadsheet and Word Processing software.

Other Skills and Abilities: Mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting skills.