Senior Night Warehouse Manager

ARE YOU A CURRENT US FOODS EMPLOYEE? PLEASE APPLY DIRECTLY THROUGH OUR INTERNAL WORKDAY CAREER SITE Join Our Community of Food People! The Senior Manager, Night Warehouse is responsible for leading all overnight warehouse operations to ensure a culture focused on safety, people development, service excellence, operational efficiency, and cost management. This role provides leadership and direction to warehouse management teams while ensuring the safe, accurate, and timely receiving, storage, selection, and loading of product.

The Senior Manager will drive operational excellence, food safety compliance, inventory accuracy, workforce engagement, and continuous improvement initiatives while developing future warehouse leaders and supporting company growth objectives.

Schedule:

Sunday – Thursday, 4:00 PM until completion of operations. This position requires flexibility to work extended hours as needed to support business demands and ensure operational success. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership experience within a food service distribution, food manufacturing, grocery distribution, logistics, or high-volume warehouse environment, with a solid understanding of food safety, inventory management, labor productivity, warehouse operations, and regulatory compliance.

Experience with food safety audits, quality assurance programs, and leading large warehouse teams in a fast-paced distribution environment is highly preferred.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Lead all night warehouse operations to achieve safety, service, quality, productivity, and cost objectives. Champion a safety-first culture by ensuring compliance with company safety policies, OSHA standards, and warehouse operating procedures. Develop, coach, and mentor Warehouse Managers through performance management, leadership development, and ongoing training. Build and maintain high-performing teams through effective hiring, onboarding, retention, succession planning, and employee engagement initiatives.

Partner with Warehouse Managers to address performance gaps and improve productivity, safety, attendance, and service levels. Ensure the accurate receiving, storage, inventory control, order selection, and loading of products. Monitor food safety and quality assurance standards to ensure compliance with HACCP requirements and company policies. Analyze operational, labor, inventory, safety, and financial data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives that reduce waste, improve efficiency, enhance productivity, and control operating costs. Review and approve daily operational load plans while ensuring orders are completed accurately and delivered on schedule. Maintain inventory integrity through audits, cycle counts, product rotation, and inventory control processes. Oversee warehouse facility conditions and equipment maintenance to ensure a safe and compliant work environment.

Collaborate with Transportation, Sales, Inventory Control, Maintenance, and Human Resources teams to support operational objectives. Investigate operational issues, safety incidents, inventory discrepancies, and customer service concerns while implementing corrective actions. Support labor relations activities and work with Human Resources on performance management, employee relations, and workplace concerns. Perform additional duties and special projects as assigned. SUPERVISION:
Directly manages Warehouse Managers and warehouse support personnel, including Operations Clerks, Warehouse Clerks, Will Call Clerks, Slotting Clerks, Truck Builders, and other warehouse administrative staff. Provides indirect leadership to warehouse operations associates through the management team, including Selectors, Loaders, Receivers, Forklift Operators, and other warehouse personnel. Leads and develops warehouse management teams to ensure achievement of safety, productivity, service, quality, and employee engagement objectives.

Oversees workforce performance by partnering with managers and supervisors to support coaching, training, performance management, staffing, and development initiatives. Promotes…