Sr. Director Operations

Why Work for KeHE? Full-time

Pay

$200,000.00/Yr. - $250,000.00/Yr.

Schedule

Shift Days: Thursday–Friday, Shift Time: 12:00 AM

Benefits

• Health, prescription, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
• Supplemental life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Paid sick time
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD)
• Employee stock ownership (ESOP)
• Holiday pay for company-designated holidays

Overview

At KeHE, we’re obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others—and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we’re committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you’ll be embarking on a career that’s moving forward. When you join KeHE, you’re becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

Responsibilities

• Plan, direct, organize, and control warehousing, distribution, and transportation activities for the distribution center.
• Implement company operating policies, procedures, and processes that achieve safe, efficient, cost-effective facility operations and meet customer service expectations.
• Maintain the distribution center in accordance with company health and sanitation standards, federal and state OSHA requirements.
• Protect and maintain company assets (inventory, facilities, and fleet) within the region.
• Establish and maintain warehouse budgetary goals.
• Organize production and procedures of warehouse operations.
• Oversee and execute all inventory control procedures ensuring maximum safeguard of the company’s physical inventory.
• Provide leadership, train, and develop warehouse supervisors.
• Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws, including conducting performance reviews and controlling overtime.
• Instill a sense of professionalism and pride in co-workers, drivers, and warehouse personnel through ongoing daily communication.
• Interface daily with management of the public warehouse.
• Responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of all equipment.
• Recommend new equipment, systems, and facility capital expenditures.
• Ensure quality service and product to customers.
• Develop and maintain inventory shrinkage-shortage level goals established by the company.
• Oversee and direct facility security and security systems.
• Responsible for effective safety and sanitation programs.
• Maintain an efficient production schedule to ensure timely truck departures to meet delivery schedules.
• Coordinate outside purchases of warehouse materials, supplies, and products.
• Interact with customers to resolve order discrepancies and ensure quality service.
• Establish and maintain effective communication avenues with all KeHE departments.
• Develop and maintain effective cost control and productivity procedures.
• Maximize facility productivity and utilization.
• Maintain effective stock rotation.
• Utilize warehouse space as efficiently as possible.
• Maintain good attendance and safe work practices.
• Maintain safeguards of confidential company information.
• Perform other duties and special projects as requested.

Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of prior warehouse/distribution experience.
• At least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree highly preferred.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and write English.
• Previous experience operating a forklift, experience with security systems, and knowledge of MS Office required.
• Ability to work varied shifts and schedules as required.

Skills

• High degree of self-motivation and dependability.
• Ability and willingness to respond with patience, courtesy, and friendliness.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal abilities; ability to get along with diverse personalities; tactful, mature, and flexible.
• Excellent grammar, verbal, and writing skills.
• High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with day-to-day activities.
• Good reasoning abilities and sound judgment.
• Resourceful, well-organized, highly dependable, efficient, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to establish credibility and be decisive while recognizing and supporting the organization’s preferences and priorities.
• Service-oriented, yet assertive/persuasive.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees and management personnel.