Warehouse Supervisor

About the Company

SunOpta delivers customized supply chain solutions and innovation for top brands, retailers, and foodservice providers across a broad portfolio of beverages, broths, and better-for-you snacks. With over 50 years of expertise, SunOpta fuels customers’ growth with high-quality, sustainability-forward solutions distributed through retail, club, foodservice, and e-commerce channels across North America.

About the Role

The Warehouse Supervisor is responsible for overseeing a wide variety of material department activities including shipping and receiving raw materials and/or finished goods and maintaining inventory and associated records. People management responsibilities include hiring and training, planning, and assigning daily work, conducting performance appraisals, addressing performance issues, and resolving problems.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and assist in daily material department activities including:
  • Filling and shipping customer orders
  • Satisfying internal shipping requirements (technical service, vendors, etc.)
  • Ensuring accuracy of shipments and supporting documentation
  • Receiving incoming material and routing to appropriate area or personnel
  • Filling work orders from production
  • Packaging assemblies and receiving into finished goods
  • Ensuring inventory transactions are accurately logged
  • Arranging transfers to and from external warehouses
• Measure and report the effectiveness of the department activities.
• Develop and maintain departmental work instructions for all tasks.
• Establish or adjust work procedures to meet warehouse demands as dictated by production schedules and workflow.
• Interpret company policies to workers and enforce safety regulations.
• Recommend measures to improve quality of service, increase efficiency of department and work crew, and enhance equipment performance.
• Continuously improve warehouse operations through the use of lean enterprise practices.
• Confer with other supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments and serve internal customers.
• Assist with inventory control levels by conducting physical counts and reconciling with data storage system.
• Maintain physical condition of warehouse by planning and implementing new design layouts; inspecting equipment; issuing work orders for repair and requisitions for replacement.
• Ensure effective safety procedures, tools, and record keeping are managed through site leadership.
• Adhere to company GMP’s (good manufacturing practices), safety procedures, and all other quality processes.
• Wear PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) when required.
• Perform all other duties, as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Warehouse and Material Department Employees

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Business or related field.
• Three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Forklift experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Food industry and/or manufacturing industry experience.
• Oracle experience.

Skills

• Previous experience in cycle counting and inventory is a plus.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating/maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to make calculations such as discounts, freight estimates, dimensional weight, invoices, and percentages.
• Knowledge of general business and computer software.
• Aptitude to learn new software applications.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).

Additional Considerations

• Travel Expectations: Travel between main plant and 2 warehouses (within 10-mile radius).
• Location: This role will be located at the SunOpta offsite warehouse in Alburtis, PA.
• Shift: Days, Monday through Friday.
• Work Environment: Approximately 50% of this role will be performed in an office environment; approximately 50% may be in a production environment.
• Relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid Family leave
• Paid maternity leave
• 401(k) with Match
• Voluntary Life, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital indemnity
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition assistance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability insurance