Traffic & Shipping Supervisor

Job Code/Title

L4683:
Traffic Administration Supv

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; 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.

Location:

Sunnyvale, CA.

• 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.

• 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,…