Warehouse Manager

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Warehouse Full Time management Houston, TX, US

Latin Specialties LLC is a Houston-based importer, distributor, ripener, fresh-cut processor, and repacker of fresh produce serving retail, food service, and wholesale customers. Our perishable-product operations require disciplined inventory control, reliable cold-chain execution, food safety, and close coordination across teams.

The Warehouse Manager has end-to-end accountability for warehouse execution, including receiving, storage, inventory integrity, order picking, quality checkpoints, shipping, loading, returns, and accurate ERP transactions. This is a hands-on, floor-based leadership role—not an office-only supervisory position. The manager leads by example, develops qualified team leads, plans ahead, coordinates proactively with other departments, and independently designs, implements, and improves reliable processes.

• Maintain an active, visible presence on the warehouse floor; demonstrate, coach, and verify the work rather than managing solely from an office. Lead by example.
• Direct daily operations through trained leads; assign ownership, monitor execution, correct deficiencies, and follow up until issues are resolved. Own warehouse operations in full.
• Build schedules and cross-training plans around actual order volume, inbound deliveries, departure times, and qualified coverage—not merely minimum staffing. Build an effective team.
• Establish training and competency records for critical tasks. Do not permit untrained or unauthorized employees to perform critical warehouse functions independently. Train your team.
• Ensure designated, trained leadership coverage and documented handoffs for early shifts, late shifts, and weekends. Review work completed before arrival and after departure. Create team redundancies.
• Remain reasonably reachable for urgent operational escalations outside scheduled hours, or establish and communicate an approved qualified backup and escalation plan. Be available.

• Prepare and communicate a forward-looking daily operating plan, ideally before the next shift, covering workload, staffing, product availability, inspections, equipment, truck schedules, and priorities.
• Coordinate proactively with Quality Control, Production, Logistics, Sales, Procurement, and Inventory Control to secure the information, releases, materials, staffing, and timing needed for successful execution.
• Identify dependencies and resolve potential bottlenecks before they disrupt work; clarify owners, deadlines, and contingency plans.
• Own warehouse outcomes even when another department contributes to an issue. Avoid blame-shifting; communicate facts, propose solutions, follow up, and escalate unresolved risks early.
• Lead brief daily huddles with warehouse leads and maintain effective shift-to-shift and department-to-department communication.

• Oversee order release, picking, staging, final verification, and loading to ensure correct items, quantities, lots, labels, customer specifications, and truck assignments.
• Establish documented checks for product condition, customer quality requirements, shipping paperwork, trailer suitability, and required product/trailer temperatures.
• Ensure loading and departures are coordinated with Logistics; investigate shipment errors, shortages, misloads, and customer claims, and implement preventive actions.
• Ensure appropriate traceability records and timely, accurate shipping transactions in the ERP.