Warehouse Operations Leader: Inventory, Planning & Efficiency

Job Purpose: The Warehouse Manager is responsible for managing the daily operations of the warehouse to include scheduling departmental hours of operation, inbound and outbound loading, overseeing inventory control, managing the maintenance of warehouse equipment and warehouse housekeeping. The person in this position should drive improvements through change and demonstrate their ability to think outside of the box. The manager will assign priorities for all aspects of production, to include labor, documentation/time requirements and customer demands.

This position reports to the Director of Warehouse Ops.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Daily

• Ensures all local drivers have their freight loaded.
• Processes all paperwork from the previous day and distribute to proper departments.
• Keeps track of warehouse customers' inventory via computer and physical counts.
• Works with third party logistics to ensure customers' needs are met or exceeded.
• Schedules outside carriers to pick up warehouse customers orders as directed by customers.
• Manages warehouse personnel and schedules, ensures proper training of all warehouse employees and handles employee relation issues.
• Ensures that procedures for warehouse customers are properly carried out.
• Retains dock procedures for RJW customers.
• Manages warehouse space and ensures cleanliness at all times.
• Handles billing of all warehouse customers with the exception of Klockner.
• Provides production/labor planning with supervisors and leads on a daily basis as well as status updates to ensure labor needs and best practices.
• Performs facility AIB walk-throughs daily.
• Monitors and maintains daily productivity levels in the department.
• Approves FTE's/temp time and attendance; monitors attendance and overtime.
• Communicates with warehouse supervisors to ensure labor needs and best practices are being met. Outsources temp labor as needed.
• Maintains positive customer service interaction with internal customers, such as HR, customer services, sales, logistics, operations, etc.

Weekly

• Maintains equipment maintenance.
• Attends all strategic leadership meetings on a weekly basis.
• Monthly KPI Tracking.
• Maintains and documents facility updates.
• Generates warehouse reporting.

Quarterly

• Performs performance reviews, sets team goals and projects forecasting in a timely manner.
• Participates in P&L review.

Job Complexity

• Management skills and the ability to manage a staff of employees.
• Hires, trains, coaches, mentors and holds all warehouse staff accountable.
• Ability to lead or support IT modification projects.
• Ability to maintain an organized, neat and orderly operation as it pertains to the warehouse.
• Ensures that all project and client KPIs are met or exceeds expectation.
• Requires knowledge of reporting requirements as it pertains to the warehouse.
• Good communication, problem resolution, and people skills.

Qualifications

• Must be able to communicate, read, write, and speak English.
• 5 or more years of Warehouse Management experience.
• Ability to report/track trending and historical data.
• Must have strong business writing and case analysis skills.
• Advance math and financial skills a must.
• Experience in Inventory Control, Transportation Warehouse.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills, (Excel, Access, Visio and Power Point), data entry and general computer abilities.
• Experience in warehouse safety and safety training.
• College degree preferred.

Physical Requirements

Must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Must be able to activate phone systems utilizing keyboards and buttons.

Must be articulate and comfortable speaking in front of others.

Regularly work in an indoor/office environment and required to sit and/or use repetitive hand motion.

Frequently required to talk, hear, stand and walk.

Must be able to work in excess of continuous 8 hours when required.

Must be able to work under stressful situations, have good cognitive skills, maintain work accuracy, and the ability to concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Must have the ability to read and discern visual images on a variety of media with 20/20 corrected vision.

Must hear speech out of both ears in the normal range of 30db at 500 to 2000 Hz range.

Must be able to speak and communicate clearly over telephones.

Must be in sound physical health as determined by a certified licensed physician with no evidence of the use of controlled substances.

The preceding statements are illustrative of the functions of the job and RJW retains the right to modify or change the duties or essential functions of the job at any time.

As with all positions, the duties and responsibilities are subject to change at any time as needs arise and at the discretion of the RJW Transport, Inc. The Company has the right to revise this job description at any time.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment will range from quiet to moderately loud.

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