Warehouse Supervisor

About the role

Supervise daily warehouse activities including planning, directing, and coordinating the ordering and distribution of products, parts, and accessories, manpower, maintenance of the warehouse. Lead day-to-day activities of the warehouse including safety, planning, organizing and execution of all activities including personnel administration, performance evaluations, work assignments. Spend a minimum of 50% of scheduled work hours on the warehouse floor to provide real-time supervision, support, coaching, and workflow oversight. Provide leadership and work direction to team ensuring that resources adequate to meet key requirements related to safety, service levels, cost, and productivity. Assist the quality manager with the investigation and review of quality claims, partner with Customer Service as needed to provide resolution to customer. Drive data driven quality improvements leveraging the Lean and Quality Root Cause Countermeasure Investigation process, ensuring containment actions are in place while eliminating the root cause.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective guidance, training, balanced workload distribution, and consistent operational performance.
• Participate in and/or lead cross-functional projects and kaizen events involving the continuous improvement of distribution/logistics concepts.
• Drive Zero Harm culture by developing a proactive approach to safety through the Risk Notification process and leading the department Safety Committee.
• Create an environment for participation and promote a hands-on approach to problem solving.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred. Ideally 3 years previous experience in a distribution environment and 3 years in a leadership position.

Skills

• Proficient Microsoft Office suite. Specifically, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to work in a team environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to adapt rapidly to changes and function in a high-stress, high-pressure environment with a positive attitude.
• Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize time/workload and delegate work in order to accomplish tasks and meet deadlines.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships, both internal and external, and establish credibility with business partners.
• Ability to effectively mentor and foster staff growth and development.
• Ability to evaluate and motivate personnel.

Benefits

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
• Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.