Distribution Supervisor

Job Purpose:

Plan, direct, and monitor the day to day operational activities for a team to ensure a competitive service advantage is achieved by maintaining a high degree of accuracy and customer service. Assist the facility in exceeding their financial and strategic goals by playing an active role on the leadership team. May participate in the development and execution of business strategies with an understanding of the requirements for an effective distribution support team.

Job Responsibilities:

• Deliver and supervise various distribution center tasks to ensure all goods and supplies are shipped, received, stored and recorded accurately following established procedures.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiencies and optimize cost effectiveness.
• Analyze the warehouse metrics and prepare reports and inventory control documents using Microsoft Office and existing systems.
• Supervise and lead a team.
• Monitor and adjust employee schedules and workloads to enhance efficiencies and ensure high-priority tasks are achieved.
• Participate in the hiring process and management of distribution center staff.
• Ensure the highest level of customer service is being executed and develop methods to improve the quality of service for all employees, vendors and suppliers.
• Motivate and hold the team accountable for achieving local and company goals.
• Maintain a culture of safety that follows the organization's Health, Safety and Environmental (HS&E) policies to identify and mitigate environmental risks and risks to oneself and others in the workplace. Instruct the team in safe working methods and escalate serious issues as appropriate.
• Prioritize own workflow and ensure work is completed to the required standards and regulatory codes of productivity, quality and timeliness; use performance management systems to improve personal performance.
• Perform additional duties as required.

Qualifications:

• Must be available to work 2nd shift

Work Experience:

• 2 years of successful supervisory/management experience is required.
• Experience and thorough understanding of warehouse, delivery, traffic operations and systems within a distribution setting, as well as government regulations (e.g., DOT, OSHA, HazMat, etc.).
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills including but not limited to performance management (employee evaluations, discipline, corrective action, coaching) and conducting interviews.
• Ability to motivate a team, manage multiple projects, work under pressure and adapt to sudden changes in the workplace environment.
• PC proficient in Windows based software programs. Familiarity with mid-range and mainframe systems and Warehouse Management System (WMS) is a plus.

Education:

• Associate’s/Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

Working Conditions:

• Responsibilities include regularly working in a non-climate controlled warehouse where exposure to cold, heat, damp or humid conditions may occur.
• Will work around moving machinery such as forklifts and pallet jacks.
• Noise level in the work environment is typically loud.
• Exposure to dust, mechanical hazards, moving objects, operating vehicles and shift work is required.

Physical Requirements:

Requirements are representative of those needed to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to lift, twist and carry up 50 - 75 pounds, manipulate (pushing and pulling) up to 160 pounds of product with material handling equipment and skids weighing up to 2,000 pounds utilizing pallet jack.
• Physical activities required of this job include, but are not limited to:

• Walking/Standing - walk throughout the warehouse to complete customer orders. Stand when operating order picker or reach truck equipment and when operating cutter.
• Sitting - sit only when driving sit-down material handling equipment.
• Lifting - lift items weighing a few ounces up to 150 pounds with assistance.
• Stooping - performed when filling orders or putting away products assigned to floor level locations. May bend at the waist.

Kneeling - may kneel when filling orders or putting away products assigned to floor level locations.

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This description does not attempt to define the job's essential functions as defined by applicable disabilities law.