Manager-Office

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Tacoma, WA
In-Office
58K-75K Annually
Senior level
Logistics • Transportation
The Role
The Office Manager oversees administrative functions across the Conventional Division's Puget Sound region, managing locations, administrative needs, vendor relations, and office functions while ensuring compliance with company policies.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities

The Office Manager is responsible for administrative functions across the Conventional Division’s Puget Sound region. Primary responsibilities include oversight of Tacoma and Everett locations, with support for other locations in the Puget Sound like Grays Harbor, Olympia, and others. This role will be the key personnel responsible for the management, organization, and communication of administrative functions.  

 

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for general administrative functions of operations
  • Occasionally travel to offices within the PNW region to ensure administrative needs are being met. This includes offices such as Seattle, Everett, Olympia, and Longview
  • Review and approve accounts payable
  • Maintain vessel schedules and circulate to internal stakeholders on a weekly basis
  • Manage and maintain “ship files” and vessel paperwork. Work with Superintendents and General Managers to ensure accuracy of paperwork. Submit to appropriate internal counterparties for review and approval
  • Work closely with Superintendents and General Managers to create and codify sensitive military information and billing documents
  • Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and must become proficient with SSA’s IFS platform. Travel to Salt Lake City, UT to attend training in the IFS platform required
  • Organize office files and inventory to ensure streamlined process and documentation
  • Serves as a go-to for general office inquiries
  • Inventory management to ensure there is a sufficient supply in office inventory; this would include ordering supplies, maintaining an organized supply area
  • Assist in implementing internal written processes and procedures
  • Answer and direct phone calls to appropriate personnel in a courteous manner
  • Maintain office records, and where possible, move towards digital records management
  • Plan and coordinate office functions such as lunches and other as-needed support
  • Maintain company values, rules, policies and procedures are met to fulfill the company mission, as well as productive relationships with customers and vendors
  • Responsible for special tasks requested by management and/or supervisor
  • Other duties as assigned
Preferred Qualifications
  • High school diploma
  • 5 years administration experience
  • Valid Driver’s License
  • Some knowledge of transportation industry from a vocational education institute, apprenticeship, on the job training and/or similar work experience
  • Highly organized and flexible
  • Detailed oriented and works with a high degree of accuracy
  • Working knowledge of email, scheduling and Microsoft systems
  • Ability to acquire TWIC card required
 
 
Work environment:
  • Schedule may be flexible but primary schedule is Monday through Friday in office.
  • Regular travel around the Pacific Northwest
  • Required job duties are performed in a professional office environment
  • The position may also be required to travel into active industrial areas
  • The noise level in work environment is occasional
  • The ability to work in an environment that may be hazardous to persons unable to see and hear fast moving equipment
 
 
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
 
Pay Range

$58,000 - $75,000

Compensation & BenefitsEligible employees (and their families) may qualify for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as having basic life and accidental death insurance, paid disability insurance, including paid parental leave if eligible, and an Employee Assistance Program. Employees will receive paid sick and vacation time, and company holidays if eligible. The company also offers paid bereavement leave, and paid jury duty. Eligible employees can enroll in our company's 401k plan, as well as a retirement plan. Employees will be eligible for discretionary and/or metric-based bonuses dependent on their position.

Top Skills

Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp) Systems
Microsoft Systems
Ssa'S Ifs Platform
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The Company
HQ: Seattle, Washington
1,182 Employees
Year Founded: 1949

What We Do

Founded by Fred R. Smith in 1949 as Bellingham Stevedoring Company, we began our first cargo handling operations in a small corner of Washington State. Driven by a pioneering spirit, our family-owned company saw steady growth over the years, expanding up and down the West Coast to operate a significant market share of the major international terminals in the eastern Pacific. Today, we have become a global enterprise spanning more than 260 locations across five continents.

We continue to broaden our reach by developing new locations and upgrading existing facilities, providing some of the most technologically advanced facilities in the world.

We partner to move commerce with efficiency, flexibility, and integrity.
With operations across five continents and a vast network of interconnected transportation solutions, we open new opportunities that accelerate the growth and pace of global business. Improving the customer experience is at the heart of everything we do, so we make purposeful investments in people, facilities and technical innovations that deliver the greatest customer value.

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