Warehouse Supervisor

About the role

We firmly believe that our employees drive the success of the company! With success in mind as the ultimate goal, we strive to create and provide an environment that offers challenging, stimulating and financially rewarding opportunities. We are looking for The Right One to join our team!

Responsibilities

• Support and monitor the department assigned.
• Utilizes Hoshin and FMDS to communicate the department’s expectations and results.
• Creates standardized work process for assigned department and ensures these processes are reviewed and up to date.
• Ensures department’s staff are properly trained and perform daily work to standard processes.
• Conducts problem solving activities within the department using PDCA format with team input.
• Supports initiatives for an effective safety program that meets OSHA and company expectations.
• Maintains department’s safety targets for safety performance including leading indicators (Hiyari Hatto, Behavioral Based Safety, etc.) and trailing indicators (incident rates).
• Conducts investigation, reporting and countermeasure of safety incidents and audits.
• Supports activities of the facility’s safety committee.
• Ensures the department is compliant to company (ISO14001) and government environmental standards.
• Covers and monitors the productivity of department assigned.
• Maintains department’s productivity targets and analyzes data to improve productivity and implement improvements.
• Ensures adequate tools and equipment are available to staff for a safe and productive operation.
• Monitors preventive maintenance program for building and production equipment to minimize downtime.
• Follows and monitors quality control measures in place to meet internal and external customer expectations.
• Maintains department’s quality targets and analyzes data to improve quality and implement improvements.
• Delegates tasks and accountabilities.
• Supports creation of training and development plans for staff to support succession planning and effective operation.
• Sustains high morale of staff through coaching, counseling, and discipline as required.
• Affirms company policies (HR, Safety, Internal Controls, IT, Accounting, Security, etc.) and other directives are communicated, implemented, and observed throughout the organization.
• Responds promptly to internal and external customer issues and concerns with root cause and countermeasures within the specified timeframe.
• Sends reports to management within the specified time frame and with accuracy.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Minimum of 4-6 years previous experience in a warehouse environment.
• Experience in leading process improvement activities, creation of standardization of work, an understanding of TPS principles, and Problem Solving principles (PDCA, 5-Why, etc.) is a plus.
• Previous experience with warehouse operations and knowledge of rules and regulations is a plus.