Warehouse Operations & Continuous Improvement Supervisor

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We are hiring a Warehouse Operations Supervisor with experience driving process improvements and leading high-performing teams. The position oversees shipping, receiving, inventory, and material flow operations while focusing on Lean initiatives, cost reduction, warehouse optimization, and inventory accuracy across multiple locations. Strong leadership, analytical skills, and a continuous improvement mindset are key to success. Qualified candidates must be willing to work an onsite schedule at our Greeneville, TN location.

• Operational Leadership:
  Lead daily shipping, receiving, warehousing, order picking, material handling, and inventory activities across multiple warehouse locations. Supervise, coach, and develop warehouse team members while establishing clear expectations for safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and accountability. Lead daily Tier meetings and use KPI performance to identify issues, assign actions, elevate barriers, and drive sustainable corrective actions. Coordinate shipping priorities, transportation methods, and schedules with trucking vendors, planning, production, and other internal partners to meet customer requirements.
  
  Ensure outgoing orders are picked, packed, documented, and shipped accurately and on time. Maintain accurate and timely inventory transactions to provide reliable inventory visibility throughout the organization. Investigate and resolve shipping, receiving, inventory, and material-flow discrepancies. Support and lead physical inventory and cycle-count activities while driving improvements that increase inventory accuracy.
• Process Improvement & Cost Reduction:
  Conduct a comprehensive review of warehouse, shipping, receiving, inventory, and material-handling processes to identify opportunities for significant improvements in cost, productivity, space utilization, material flow, inventory accuracy, and service levels. Develop and execute a prioritized continuous improvement roadmap for warehouse operations. Identify, quantify, recommend, and implement cost-reduction projects with measurable financial and operational results. Apply Lean and continuous improvement principles to eliminate waste, unnecessary movement, excess handling, waiting, transportation, and non-value-added activities.
  
  Establish baseline performance, define improvement targets, and track results to ensure improvements are sustained.
• Material Flow & Warehouse Optimization:
  Evaluate existing stocking locations, point-of-use inventory, staging areas, rack layouts, material routes, and warehouse space utilization. Redesign stocking strategies and material locations where appropriate to reduce travel distance, material handling, congestion, and overall operating cost. Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and other functions to improve material flow from receiving through production and ultimately to customer shipment. Evaluate opportunities for warehouse layout changes, visual management, standard work, material presentation, replenishment strategies, and technology improvements.
  
  Use operational data to make fact-based recommendations regarding warehouse capacity, labor requirements, storage strategies, and future capital needs.
• Inventory Optimization:
  Regularly analyze inventory levels, usage, aging, and movement to identify excess,…