Warehouse Manager

About the position

Responsibilities

• Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures.
• Maintain quality standards of finished product.
• Ensures smooth delivery of product for the Sales organization.
• Achieves operational objectives by contributing warehouse operations information and recommendations to strategic plans.
• Reviews and prepares any action plans while ensuring productivity, quality and customer service standards are met.
• Meets financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.
• Builds people capability through effective employee relations, hiring, training, and communication for front-line hourly and salaried personnel.
• Develops and motivates team to solve day-to-day operational issues and reach short- and long-term performance goals.
• Delivers effective change leadership while driving business changes and minimizing people impact.
• Communicates and collaborates cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues.
• Develops warehouse operations systems by determining product handling and storage requirements.
• Develops processes for receiving product, equipment utilization, inventory management, gate processes (check in/out), and shipping.
• Develops and implements warehouse operations system improvements by leading continuous improvement projects as assigned and by analyzing process work flow, manning and space requirements, and equipment layout.
• Troubleshoots all receiving and shipping complaints to find the cause, help resolve the issue, and prevent reoccurrence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, preferably in engineering, business, operations management, or similar field.
• Continuous improvement experience (i.e. Lean Six Sigma certification, TPM, lean manufacturing, etc.), as demonstrated by successful completion of a major improvement project.
• 5 years of operations/logistics or supply chain experience preferred with 2 or more years of supervisory experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of inventory management systems.
• Forklift certification a plus.
• Ability to lead a team-based approach to decision-making and demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to get results through mentoring others.
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team building skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Forklift Certification
• Six Sigma Certification

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Dependent care reimbursement
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Vision insurance
• Retirement plan