Warehouse Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day warehouse activities: receiving, inspection, put-away, staging, and internal material movements
• Maintain an organized, efficient warehouse layout to support productivity and safety
• Ensure accurate labeling, binning, and storage of all raw materials, components, and finished goods
• Develop and enforce SOPs for all warehouse processes, with emphasis on receiving, put-away, cycle counting, and material handling
• Own inventory accuracy for all warehouse-held materials, with an expectation of maintaining system accuracy at or above 99%
• Plan and execute cycle counts and physical inventories; analyze and resolve root causes of variances to prevent recurrence
• Monitor stock levels and partner with Planning/Procurement to prevent stockouts and excess inventory
• Coordinate with Production to ensure timely staging and delivery of materials to the line
• Work with Quality on non-conforming material handling, quarantine, and disposition
• Partner with Fulfillment/Shipping on finished goods handoff from warehouse to outbound operations
• Promote and enforce a strong safety culture in compliance with all safety policies

Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing or production environment
• Strong background in inventory control and warehouse operations, including demonstrated ownership of accuracy metrics and KPIs
• Proficiency with WMS/ERP systems and Excel or similar tools
• Demonstrated team leadership experience in an operations environment
• Licenses/Certifications: Lean Manufacturing certification from an accredited institution, or minimum four years of lean management implementation experience
• Knowledge: Strong written communication and verbal skills, proven ability to set project priorities, establish department/discipline goals and objectives for self and staff
• Skills: 5S and Six Sigma certification or implementation is a plus, Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and schematics, Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals, Computer literacy required; including advanced skills in Microsoft applications (i.e. Excel, Word, PPT, etc.), Previous experience managing and leading a team, Strong attention to detail, Positive attitude, self-motivated and eager to succeed

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and mentor a team
• Interviewing, selecting, and training employees
• Performance evaluations

Physical Requirements

• Required to sit, talk or hear; frequently required to use hands to grip or feel; and occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Vision and depth perception suitable for use of utilizing a computer, printer, phone, and keyboard
• Manual dexterity suitable for use of utilizing a computer
• Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes which permits the employee to work in an office setting
• Ability to walk and/or climb 50% of the time comfortably, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Ability to sit at a computer for 50% of the time comfortably, with or without reasonable accommodation
• Light to moderate lifting

Working Conditions

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Must be comfortable working in a production environment to include moderate noise levels
• The working area is primarily on the production floor with reasonable lighting and controlled temperatures