Distribution Center Manager

Description

At Northern Tool + Equipment we get up every day to serve the tradespeople who keep our country running strong and the weekend warriors who want to work like them. It’s our mission to make sure they have the right tools for the job, and an easy, hassle-free experience at our store so they can get in, get out and get on with the job r top priority as a Distribution Center Manager is to lead all Distribution Center functions for Northern Tool + Equipment’s Arlington, TX facility with a disciplined focus on Quality, Agility, and Simplicity.

This role is accountable for creating better end-to-end flow across receiving, storage, picking, packing, shipping, inventory control, safety, and labor planning so that products move accurately, efficiently, and reliably to stores, customers, and other Company operations. The Distribution Center Manager is expected to build a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and operational discipline that enables the Company to achieve service, sales, profit, safety, and productivity goals.

Your positive, professional, roll-up-your-sleeves-to-help attitude contributes to our winning culture and makes sure we leave a lasting impression.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establishes clear Distribution Center goals, operating standards, and daily management routines that improve safety, quality, flow, service, productivity, and cost performance across all inbound, outbound, inventory, and support functions.
• Works with the Director of Distribution to align site priorities to approved goals, monitors performance against key metrics, takes timely corrective action, and communicates risks, tradeoffs, and recommended changes with urgency and clarity.
• Provides direction and guidance over Distribution Center operations to ensure accurate receiving, stocking, picking, packing, shipping, and inventory handling. Maintains a strong floor presence to inspect what is expected, remove barriers, and reinforce quality at the source.
• Monitors established safety programs for compliance using Company requirements and Occupational Safety Health Administration regulations. Directs maintenance and monitoring of housekeeping standards to promote safe and efficient operations and directs changes and updates where necessary and needed.
• Monitors day-to-day warehouse operations for efficiency, simplicity, and flow. Identifies bottlenecks, eliminates unnecessary complexity, improves handoffs between functions, and implements approved changes in process, layout, labor planning, systems, and equipment.
• Maintains working knowledge of current distribution, fulfillment, quality, inventory, WMS, labor planning, and continuous improvement practices. Applies practical methods, tools, and industry learning to improve service, reduce waste, simplify work, and ensure legal and Company compliance requirements are met.
• Directs management work assignments and areas of responsibility with clear ownership, measurable expectations, and visible follow-up. Holds leaders accountable for daily execution, root cause problem solving, associate engagement, and sustained improvement of flow, quality, safety, and productivity.
• Builds an agile operating environment that can flex labor, space, process flow, and priorities in response to changing customer demand, carrier performance, seasonality, promotional activity, inventory conditions, and business needs while maintaining quality and safety standards.
• Fosters strong cross-functional partnerships with transportation, inventory planning, retail, direct-to-customer, merchandising, IT, risk, and compliance teams to align priorities, improve end-to-end execution, resolve barriers, and ensure Distribution Center decisions support broader Company service, sales, profit,…