DEPARTMENT MANAGER WAREHOUSE

Position Overview

The Warehouse Department Manager, Zone 3 is responsible for leading a complex, multi-shift warehouse operation supporting Industrial Flavor Solutions customers, internal manufacturing facilities, and finished goods handling.

Key Responsibilities

• Operational Leadership: Lead daily warehouse operations for Zone 3 across three shifts and weekends, ensuring effective execution of operational priorities.

• People Leadership: Provide direct leadership, coaching, and development for approximately 60 non-exempt employees and two exempt employees.

• Contractor and Agency Management: Lead and coordinate contracted agency resources supporting container unloading, product labeling and re-labeling, and material transport.

• Safety, Quality, and Compliance: Champion a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with all applicable safety policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

• Inventories, Materials, and Service Execution: Ensure accurate material movement, storage, labeling, and inventory control practices.

• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities to improve warehouse flow, labor utilization, equipment usage, service reliability, and cost performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business, Logistics, Engineering, or a related field preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• Prior leadership experience in warehouse, distribution, manufacturing, logistics, or supply chain operations.

• Experience leading large teams in a multi-shift operational environment.

• Demonstrated ability to lead both exempt and non-exempt employees.

• Experience managing safety, quality, productivity, and service performance in an operational setting.

• Strong communication, problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills.

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and influence across departments.

• Ability to support flexible work hours as needed, including off-shift and weekend operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in food, flavor, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical, chemical, or regulated manufacturing environments.

• Experience with specialty storage requirements, such as organic, hazardous materials, refrigerated, or temperature-controlled storage.

• Knowledge of GMP, food safety, sanitation, allergen control, and quality systems.

• Experience managing contractor or temporary labor agency resources.

• Experience with warehouse management systems, ERP systems, inventory control processes, and operational performance metrics.

• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, or similar.