Warehouse Supervisor - 1st Shift

About the role

Love books? If you love books and want to play an active role in the continued expansion of one of the book industry’s most important and fastest growing organizations, then you must be part of the Readerlink Distribution Service’s dynamic team.

Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, and monitors employees to achieve stated production goals at the desired level outlined by the Operations Manager.
• Conduct employee performance reviews and discipline.
• Develop a positive work environment.
• Ensures shipping, receiving, storage, distribution and production are performed in an efficient manner.
• Makes employee decisions including interview, selection and retention of employees.
• Conduct employee training, career counseling, and development.
• Continually review production requirements and assign employees to the correct work area.
• Able to balance and achieve positive results in the areas of safety, quality, productivity, cost and employee relations.
• Solves employee issues through problem solving.
• Maintains accuracy of inventory.
• Manages multiple problems.
• Coordination of daily workflow with other management personnel.
• Performs accident and near miss investigations.
• Conducts employee team meetings.
• All operations supervisors are expected to be available to work in all areas of the operation.
• Promotes accurate, timely communication up and down the organization to ensure priority issues are addressed.
• Sets an example to co-workers.
• Cordination of daily workflow with other warehouse personnel.
• Ensures the work areas are appropriately maintained and correct any unsafe conditions immediately.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Minimum of 3 years warehouse experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
• Basic proficiency in the use of Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Must be able to work flexible schedules as required which may include working off shifts and weekends.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Proficiency in English and Spanish oral and written communication.
• At least 1 year experience utilizing a warehouse management system.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to stand up to 10 hours in a day.
• Will continuously reach up and out.
• Will occasionally climb.
• Will occasionally push/pull from 11-25 pounds.
• Will frequently bend, stoop, reach up and out, crouch, kneel, and push/pull from 36-50 pounds.
• Will frequently lift up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift up to 75 pounds.
• Will occasionally have repetitive foot movement.
• Will frequently have repetitive hand/arm movements for simple reaching, simple and firm grasping and/or fine hand manipulation.
• Specific vision ability required by this job includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly required to stand; use hand to finger, handle or feel objects; and reach with hands and arms.
• Must be able to wear gloves occasionally.

Work Environment

• The work performed is in a warehouse environment.
• The employee is frequently exposed to vibrations and dust and will be working around moving machinery.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate at low decibels.
• Must be able to work in a fast paced, team environment.

Benefits

ReaderLink is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or status of an individual with a disability.