WAREHOUSE SHIPPING & RECEIVING MANAGER

JOB DUTIES SUMMARY

Organizational Summary:

• Projects a favorable image of company initiatives. Promotes and supports company objectives to reflect a positive recognition of the company's directives.
• Maintains a favorable working relationship with all other company employees to foster a cooperative and unified environment conducive to maximizing employee morale, productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Manage:

• Manage warehouse departments to ensure employees are properly trained and their performance and progress is monitored.
• Monitor outside vendors to ensure they perform the jobs they are hired to complete in a timely and satisfactory fashion.
• Motivate, organize, and encourage teamwork within the Warehouse workforce to ensure set productivity targets are met.
• Maintain warehouse staff by interviewing, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Maintain warehouse staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.
• Plan, monitor and appraise job results. Train employees and monitor their performance and progress.

Warehouse and Sanitation:

• Manage Shipping and Receiving area of the main warehouse ensuring they are meeting their production goals, schedules are met, and work is being completed in a timely manner.
• Ability to assess employees and their work area to suggest necessary improvements and facilitate needed changes to procedures to improve production, performance, and safety.
• Ensure the physical condition of the warehouses is maintained by planning and implementing scheduled inspections of the facilities and equipment.
• Presenting requisitions for repair to the Executive Assistant Manager, and preparing requisitions for approval for replacement items, as required.
• Ensure scheduled maintenance is completed by staff and / or outside vendors.
• Maintain physical condition of warehouse by planning and implementing new design layouts, inspecting equipment, issuing requisitions for repair, and generating requisitions for replacement as required.
• Ensure daily housekeeping schedules are completed.

Shipping:

• Ensure Shipping counter is maintained by qualified employees. Ensure orders are correctly picked, packed, labeled, and loaded. Ensure quality assurance program is in place to ensure order accuracy, and that Order Builders are held accountability for accuracy.
• Provide retraining for Order Builders exceeding order error and/or missing production standards.
• Ensure walk-in customers are immediately serviced and orders built quickly.

Receiving:

• Ensure receipts are processed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensure restocking takes place no less than daily and ensure pick bins remain as full as stock will allow.
• Ensure pick bins and stock are maintained by issue activity (A,B,C,D items).

Inventory Control:

• Control inventory levels by following inventory count schedules, researching inventory discrepancies, taking actions to prevent future discrepancies, and reconciling data with the Warehouse Management System Kerridge.

Administrative:

• Produce regular reports and statistics on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
• Analyze inventory receiving, and shipping discrepancies for causes and take actions to prevent reoccurrence.

Safety and Security:

• Safeguard warehouse operations and contents by establishing and monitoring security procedures and protocol.
• Comply with federal, state, and warehousing, material handling, and shipping requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising the Director of Operations of needed actions.
• Comply with OSHA and MSDS standards.
• Provide forklift training to all employees as required before forklift operations are allowed.

Additional Job Duties

• Keep Executive Assistant Manager promptly and fully informed of all problems or unusual matters of significance and take prompt corrective action or suggest courses of action which may be taken to achieve favorable resolutions.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required or requested.

Essential Job Requirements:

• Advanced technological skills and proficiency in Microsoft programs with the capacity to expand knowledge to accounting/inventory/warehouse software and reporting.
• Organizational skills necessary.

Education: Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university or 5 years experience in related field of expertise.

Experience:

• Experience supervising, coaching, and developing staff.
• Distribution knowledge a must.
• Minimum 5 years warehouse management experience in an automated warehouse environment.

Required Skills:

• Works well with management, peers and subordinates.
• Ability to communicate and conduct themselves professionally with people at all levels of the organization and external contacts at all times.
• Extensive knowledge of material and ability to negotiate best vendor terms, pricing, and delivery schedules.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to bend, stoop, stand and sit for long periods of time.
• Must be able to lift 20 lbs. Ideally be able to lift up to 50lbs, but not required.

Benefits:

• Paid Time Off
• Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
• 401 K w/company designated match

Schedule:

• Monday – Friday, minimum schedule 11:00 am – 7:30 pm or until completion

Salary:

• $60,000 - $63,000 annually

Pay: $28.00 - $30.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person