Warehouse Operations Manager - Distribution

Hire, train, develop, and motivate warehouse personnel to follow procedures, meet high quality standards, production schedules, operations department goals, and productivity requirements.
Supervise a team of managers and individual contributors with functional responsibility for performing ongoing receiving, put‑away, picking, kitting, replenishment route running, tool crib and indirect material.
Ensure that optimal inventory levels of commodities are maintained to meet production requirements.
Estimate current and future warehouse capacity requirements.
Evaluate and provide annual performance feedback to direct reports along with interim counseling to ensure performance criteria are being met.
Conduct analysis as required to investigate and determine the root cause of compliance, quality or other performance failures and implement corrective actions as warranted.
Oversee operational inventory transactions to maintain accurate inventory.
Work and communicate directly with finance and functional management to develop and meet operational budgets for headcount, depreciation, and cost center spending.
Interface with and support manufacturing, quality control, purchasing, finance, planning, and other related departments.
Ensure all staff members receive and remain current with designated training requirements as necessary to perform responsibilities.
Establish and maintain multi‑plant inventory level goals and replenish shipments.
Maintain data in compliance with SOX and regulatory controls including records for timeliness and accuracy of inventory cycle count.
10+ years of experience working in a warehouse environment associated with a production facility.
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Experience with MRP, Agile & ERP systems, preferably SAP.
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Experience with high volume manufacturing or distribution company.
~ Strong organizational skills to meet deadlines, assist staff in prioritizing work and handle multiple projects.
~ Works independently with minimal supervision in a cross‑functional setting.
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Experience with organizing unstructured data to support proposals or operational plans.
~ Ability to handle conflict well and give positive and negative feedback along with managing performance issues.
~ Skilled in MS Office suite, WMS, Access and/or SQL database experience.
~ Maintain status as a certified forklift operator (training and certification process provided by ISI).

Required Education and Training
BS degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Logistics Management, or related field.
Project management/Six Sigma training is preferred.
Work involves working in warehouse environments consisting of rapidly moving conveyance equipment, less than optimum lighting and adverse temperature variations and conditions.
~ May require stooping, lifting, reaching in performance of daily tasks.

AI integration as it applies to inventory control and warehouse operations.
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