Regional Distribution Center - Area Manager

About the role

Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD's coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion safe working conditions, monitor associates to ensure compliance with safety protocols, and promote the safe operation of equipment within the distribution center.

• Conduct daily huddles to communicate work expectations, deliverables, and foster engagement, promoting the iCare culture among associates.

• Cook upwarehousing activities with management and administrative staff, providing logistics tracking updates to inbound coordinators through daily production reports.

• Ensure adherence to quality standards, health and safety regulations, legal requirements, and environmental policies within the distribution center.

• Facilitate onboarding for new associates; coach, motivate, and evaluate team members; investigate complaints or performance issues, and implement disciplinary actions in consultation with field human resources.

• Manage maintenance of the facility, product handling equipment, and inventory warehousing control systems to ensure operational efficiency.

• Manage warehouse associates in organizing labor for loading/unloading, operating forklifts and industrial equipment, picking materials, staging products, conducting periodic inventory checks, and ensuring proper shipment via third-party carriers.

• Plan and lead warehousing activities in collaboration with management and administration to achieve daily production goals and ensure quality delivery.

• Provide leadership and manage day-to-day activities for warehouse associates across different shifts, ensuring operational standards and productivity goals are met.

• Recruit, select, train, and mentor associates to foster their development and growth within the distribution center.

• Supervise and maintain records via warehouse management systems for the receipt, storage, and distribution of equipment, supplies, and specialty items within the distribution center.

Qualifications

• A High School or GED degree

• 5 years of related experience preferred

Skills

• Policy & Procedures

• Storage

• Traffic and Vehicle Planning

• Verbal Communication

• Health and Safety

• Inventory Management

• Work Scheduling

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift products weighing up to approximately 50 pounds. Handling of tires (e.g., rolling, destacking, team lifting) greater than approximately 50 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• Travel required: 5% of the time