Regional Distribution Center - Area Manager

Area Manager – Responsibilities

• Champion safe working conditions, monitor associates to ensure compliance with safety protocols, and promote safe operation of equipment within the distribution center.
• Conduct daily huddles to communicate work expectations, deliverables, and foster engagement, promoting the iCare culture among associates.
• Coordinate warehousing activities with management and administrative staff, providing logistics tracking updates to inbound coordinators through daily production reports.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards, health and safety regulations, legal requirements, and environmental policies within the distribution center.
• Facilitate onboarding for new associates; coach, motivate, and evaluate team members; investigate complaints or performance issues, and implement disciplinary actions in consultation with field human resources.
• Manage maintenance of the facility, product handling equipment, and inventory warehousing control systems to ensure operational efficiency.
• Manage warehouse associates in organizing labor for loading/unloading, operating forklifts and industrial equipment, picking materials, staging products, conducting periodic inventory checks, and ensuring proper shipment via third‑party carriers.
• Plan and lead warehousing activities in collaboration with management and administration to achieve daily production goals and ensure quality delivery.
• Provide leadership and manage day‑to‑day activities for warehouse associates across different shifts, ensuring operational standards and productivity goals are met.
• Recruit, select, train, and mentor associates to foster their development and growth within the distribution center.
• Supervise and maintain records via warehouse management systems for the receipt, storage, and distribution of equipment, supplies, and specialty items within the distribution center.

• High School or GED degree.
• 5 years of related experience preferred.
• Knowledge of policy & procedures; storage; traffic and vehicle planning; verbal communication; health and safety; inventory management; work scheduling.

• Occasional standing, walking, sitting, using hands to handle objects, reaching with arms, climbing stairs, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling.
• Occasional lifting of products weighing up to approximately 50 pounds; handling of tires greater than approximately 50 pounds.
• Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Exposure to weather conditions prevalent at the time; moderate noise level.
• Travel required:
  
  5% of the time.

American Tire Distributors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace.