Traffic & Shipping Supervisor

Shipping Supervisor

At the dawn of a new space age, Lockheed Martin Space stands as a pioneer, innovator, and builder. Our talented teams are on a mission to make a lasting impact, leveraging their unique skills and experiences every day to design and deliver solutions to some of the world's toughest engineering and logistical challenges. Our culture empowers employees to dream big, pursue excellence, and create extraordinary products. With the right resources, inspiration, and focus, we enable you to turn bold ideas into reality. If you have the passion and courage to think beyond today, we invite you to join us in building a better tomorrow.

Our Sunnyvale, CA facility has an immediate opening for a Shipping Supervisor to lead the Sunnyvale Traffic and Shipping group. This is a leadership position and in this pivotal role you will oversee a premier team responsible for packaging and shipping extremely specialized aerospace hardware-including GPS satellites, Orion space vehicles, NASA exploration missions, and THAAD missile-defense systems-and, in addition to supporting exciting classified programs, ensure that critical national assets reach their destinations safely and on schedule. You will lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing shipping staff, delegate tasks, communicate clear objectives, and drive continuous improvement in packaging, safety, and efficiency. The position requires daily interaction with internal manufacturing customers, external suppliers, and government interfaces to understand requirements, resolve issues, and coordinate shipments. You will make timely decisions in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment while working with some of the nation's most critical hardware, offering strong opportunities for professional growth within a leading aerospace and defense organization.

Basic Qualifications:

• Trafficking & Transportation Expertise: Strong understanding and experience with the regulatory requirements of commercial shipments of materials and hardware via ground, air, and sea modes.
• Leadership & People Management: Proven ability to guide and motivate both salaried and bargaining-unit employees, fostering teamwork and high performance.
• Effective Communication & Innovation: Excellent written and verbal communication abilities, with a talent for strategizing, planning, and implementing new or improved work concepts across teams.
• Dangerous Goods Experience: Strong regulatory expertise in shipment of hazardous materials/dangerous goods shipping, backed by current or previous certifications for both ground and air transport (49 CFR, ICAO/IATA).
• Packaging of Unique Hardware: Experience packaging specialized hardware that requires specific transportation and handling procedures.
• Commercial Carrier Truckload Coordination: Demonstrated experience coordinating and booking full-truckload shipments with commercial carriers, including carrier selection, rate negotiation, load scheduling, and documentation management.
• Standard-Operating-Procedure Development: Proven experience writing, reviewing, and maintaining SOPs to ensure consistent, compliant, and efficient operations.
• Flexibility: Willingness to work occasional non-standard hours, including low-frequency weekends, to meet mission-critical timelines.
• Security Clearance: U.S. citizenship required; ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret clearance with the potential to qualify for an SCI clearance and polygraph.

Desired Skills:

• Production & Delivery Planning: Strong experience developing, scheduling, and executing production and delivery plans that meet mission-critical timelines.
• Design & Build of Wooden Spec Crates: Hands-on experience designing, engineering, and constructing custom wooden specification crates tailored to unique hardware protection and transport requirements.
• SAP Experience: Proficiency with SAP logistics modules (e.g., SAP TM, SAP MM/EWM) for order processing, shipment planning, inventory control, and compliance reporting.
• Dangerous-Goods Regulatory Exemptions: Experience generating and applying transportation regulatory exemptions-such as DOT Special Permits, Certificates of Exemption (COEs), and Interim Hazard Classification (IHC) approvals-to enable and compliant movement of hazardous materials.
• Budget & Inventory Control: Skilled at monitoring budgets and managing stock levels to satisfy customer packaging demands while controlling costs.
• Packaging & Shipment of Classified Hardware: Expertise in packaging and shipping classified hardware while maintaining strict security, handling, and documentation standards.
• Processing GBL/DTS Shipments: Experience handling GBL and DTS shipments, including documentation, compliance, and coordination.

Other Important Information You Should Know:

Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.

Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off

Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $66,100 - $116,495. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate's final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year. This position is incentive plan eligible.

The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $76,000 - $131,675. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate's final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer. Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. This position is incentive plan eligible.

Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.

The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.

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