Warehouse Supervisor

Location: Chicago, Suburban, IL, United States

About the role

Our elevators, escalators, and moving walks safely transport more than two billion people up and down buildings and across transportation hubs every day. As part of the Schindler team, you’ll discover meaningful work that enhances quality of life for communities, and contribute to making places more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable for all.

Responsibilities

• Unloads and loads materials to and from trucks for deliveries.
• Unpacks and examines incoming shipments and signs for all incoming materials once a visual check indicates no obvious damage.
• Reports damage immediately to delivery person and supervisor.
• Compares identifying information of incoming shipments by verifying against the purchase order, packaging slips, invoices, orders, or other records.
• Operates forklift truck or uses hand truck to move, convey, or hoist shipments from receiving platform to storage or work areas.
• Delivers parts or materials to QC and to other departments in the plant and routes non-inventory items to appropriate persons or departments in the office.
• Delivers completed paperwork to appropriate department for processing.
• Picks items from delivery orders, and prepares items for shipment by visual inspection, weighing and counting parts by using electronic and floor scales.
• Compares items packed with customer orders and other identifying data.
• Stages items at packaging station or packs items for shipment – may require assembling boxes.
• Processes UPS, FedEx, and other parcel package orders, catches errors and brings it to attention of supervisor.
• Examines outgoing shipments to ensure shipments meet specifications.
• Verifies quantity, quality, labeling, and addressing of products and items of merchandise ready for shipment.
• Reads production schedule, customer orders, work orders, or requisitions to determine items be moved, gathered or distributed.
• Fills requisitions, work orders, or requests for materials, tools, or other stock items and distributes items to production workers or the assembly line.
• Moves materials within the warehouse (changing physical stock location) as needed.
• Performs cycle count on specific items or areas as directed.
• Performs forklift maintenance (charging, battery water level, etc).
• Assists other warehouse areas as needed.
• Assists internal customers via telephone and/or when they come into the stockroom.
• Maintains inventory of shipping materials and supplies.
• Maintains work area, tools, and equipment in a clean, safe and orderly manner, and observes proper safety and housekeeping procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, two years’ college (BA/BS), or equivalent preferred.
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and 1 year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Computer skills: desktop or laptop computer, utilizing software applications such as Lotus Notes & SAP.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to bend, stoop and climb.
• Regularly required to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Vision requirements include: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits

• Fully vested 401k match, up to 7% of total eligible compensation.
• Competitive medical, dental and vision plans – effective from first day of hire.
• 3 weeks’ vacation which increases with tenure, 7 sick days, 3 floating holidays and 8 company observed holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement – eligible after 6 months of service.
• Parental leave – 100% base pay for 6 consecutive weeks within first year of a child’s birth or adoption.
• A wide range of development opportunities to boost your professional and leadership growth.