The Production Data Specialist plays a key role in maintaining accurate finished seafood product data. This includes coordinating, monitoring, and reviewing production documents to ensure complete, accurate and documented product and inventory data. Communicate and coordinate regularly with co-workers at the plant and corporate level to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of operations. To round out your role as the Production Data Specialist you will oversee Full Container Load (FCL) booking daily shipments and Less than Container Load (LCL) for Sales to include verification, resolving any discrepancies, and ensuring they flow correctly in VMS.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the position include the following:

• Assist with creating and maintaining standardized shipping documents, including updating for new seasons, working with plant shippers to edit as needed, maintain standardized pallet/tote and shipment sequences, active and archived files in OneDrive.
• Create and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) standardized program for data checking at the plant and corporate levels.
• Full Container Load (FCL) daily shipments for our processing facilities in Alaska (Sitka, Craig, Valdez, Naknek, False Pass, Kodiak) to include fact check/verify, resolve discrepancies with plant(s), move into to the correct workflow in VMS, send daily paperwork correction emails and daily BOL correction emails.
• Less than Container Load (LCL) daily shipments - Plant Sales for our Sitka, Craig, Valdez, Naknek, False Pass, Kodiak, CAS Sales to include fact check/verify, resolve any discrepancies with plant(s) and ensure they are moved into correct workflow.
• Utilize IMS to monitor inventory records in Blank, Data Entry, and submitted workflows to eliminate false records that throw off totals of auto-generated reports
• Monitor van records in Blank, Data Entry, Submitted, and Cold Storage workflows to keep false or empty fan records cleaned up.
• IMS/VMS program development, reporting glitches found and fixes needed to include inventory batch edits as needed.
• Travel to plants to implement training, monitor implementation and create solutions to improve the process.
• Keep immediate supervisor and internal partners completely and accurately informed concerning work progress, including present and potential work problems and suggestions for new or improved ways of addressing such problems.
• Other duties as assigned

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following functional and interpersonal competencies:

Functional

• Experience working in high-volume, fast paced environment required. The ability to adapt and excel when business plans change. Ability to remain calm in extremely stressful situations is a high priority.
• Attention to detail- You can prioritize tasks, work with a sense of urgency, and yet leave nothing to chance. Be able to factor in every piece of information that will lead to improved processes and reduced cost.
• Sense of urgency around time-sensitive tasks with excellent organizational and planning skills; ability to multitask.
• Strong Analytical thinking - analytical skills are critical for logistics product data specialist, you must study data and compile it into clear, concise reports.

Interpersonal

• Emotional Intelligence (EQ) – The ability to recognize and understand emotions in oneself and others. This ability also involves using this emotional understanding to make decisions, solve problems, and communicate with others.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to professionally interact with a diverse blend of personality types at all levels of the organization. You enjoy building relationships, and you have a strong focus on customers.
• An assertive, proactive, innovative, creative personality with the high physical and intellectual energy necessary to achieve success, whilst showing confidence.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Management, Business, Logistics, or related field preferred but not required.
• 3+ years in seafood production experience preferred.
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Experience communicating with internal and external suppliers.
• Experience creating, editing, and maintaining procedural documentation.

Work Environment and Schedule

This is a year-round position with long hours required (12+ hours per day, 7 days per week) during the fishing seasons (March/April, June – September). Extended leave during the off season (October – February) is possible, depending on business needs. Must be able to travel to remote facilities as needed.

Physical Demands

While performing the essential function and job duties associated with the job, the employee is regularly required to sit, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Mental Activities

The employee is frequently required to set an example by consistently modeling high standards of honesty and integrity. Presentation and sharing of information should be handled in a direct, appropriate, and helpful manner. Maintains a reputation for honesty, confidentiality, reliability, and fairness. Is willing to admit mistakes and does not misrepresent him/herself for personal gain. Performs work with energy and drive; values planning, but will take quick, decisive action when an opportunity presents itself.

Salary Disclosure

The typical hourly pay range for this role is $18.00 -$21.00per hour. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills.

Silver Bay Benefits and Perks

• Health Insurance: Employees, as well as their families, are eligible for health benefits that include medical, dental and vision benefits. Employees are also eligible for basic life insurance, long-term disability, as well as voluntary life insurance benefits for them and their families.
• Employee Assistance Program: Available for employees and their families.
• Retirement Plan: Employees are eligible for the Silver Bay Seafoods safe harbor retirement 401(k) plan.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: Employees are eligible for Paid Time Off (PTO) plan benefits which start at 3 weeks a year, go up based on years of service, and receive 8 paid holidays each year.
• Other Compensation: Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Silver Bay Seafoods is equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to humanresources@silverbayseafoods.com.