Warehouse Manager

Company Statement

Graham Packaging is a people, planet and values-based company and a leader in sustainable packaging manufacturing. From the kitchen to the laundry room, Graham Packaging is part of your everyday life. For employees at Graham, our Blue Culture is part of their everyday lives, too. In other words, Blue is how we do things here. At Graham, we are united by a clear vision.

We know our part and help those around us know theirs, encouraging one another to continuously improve. We create a safe, challenging environment to innovate by supporting creative ideas and new ways of thinking. We take the initiative to cultivate our individual growth and help others do the same, while keeping ourselves and one another accountable. And we actively promote cooperation, collaboration, integrity and respect across regions and teams to foster an engaged, diverse and connected workforce.

We value our employees, and a Blue Culture allows for the most rewarding employee experience as part of the Graham family. Blue is how we feel about what we do—together—to create a better tomorrow. Working at Graham means you lead constructively with clear goals, use diverse thinking to drive excellence, accountability, innovation, as well as demonstrating collaboration, embracing learning, and taking action for continuous improvement and growth.

Warehouse Managers are responsible for the management of all logistic personnel and the overall responsibility for the material handling, receiving, shipping and warehouse operations and coordinating activities with the other departments in a manner which will result in meeting production schedules and customer delivery dates consistent with the Company policy and plant objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Understands, follows and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures and recognized practices.
• Supervises Warehouse Leads, including hiring, performance reviews and terminations.
• Works closely with customer, schedulers, plant operations and affiliated supply plants to deliver products that delight our customers in a timely manner at the lowest cost.
• Works with Operations Manager, Maintenance Manager, and Shift Supervisors to ensure production schedules are fulfilled based on customer forecasts.
• Uses tools such as SAP and other Windows based applications to manage and deliver superior performance to Graham and our customer.
• Reports potential problems to appropriate Manager prior to reaching crisis point.
• Reviews and control inventory levels.
• Develops Min/max inventories on products with customer commitment.
• Prepares Daily and Weekly Schedules
• Manages the customer service function including inventories, forecasts, reports and Communications.
• Works with Operations Manager to optimize OTIF % and troubleshoot issues.
• Works with Maintenance Manager to optimize Preventative Maintenance scheduling window.
• Works with Plant Controller and Operations Manager to set and adjust production forecast.
• Works with Customer Schedulers to monitor upcoming changes to the forecasts to reduce breakdowns in continuous productions and optimize Plant MOEE.
• Works with Shipping Clerk to ensure on time delivery of customer product requirements.
• Ensures accuracy of warehouse on hand inventory.
• Develops a master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.
• Analyzes production specifications and plant capacity data and performs mathematical calculations to determine manufacturing processes, tools, and human resource requirements.
• Plans and schedules workflow for each department and operation according to previously…