Operations Manager, Warehouse & Logistics

Operations Manager, Warehouse & Logistics

Jewett Cameron Company | North Plains, Oregon | Full-Time

Jewett Cameron is dedicated to enriching outdoor spaces through innovative product development. Our success is built on our core values:

Innovate, Collaborate, and Deliver.

We foster an environment where motivated professionals can grow while making meaningful contributions to our company, partnerships, environment, and local communities.

We're seeking an experienced Operations Manager to lead our warehouse operations, customer service, and logistics functions. This role is responsible for developing and executing operational strategies that support company growth, enhance customer experience, and drive operational excellence across distribution and fulfillment operations.

The Operations Manager will provide leadership across warehousing, inventory control, transportation, and customer service, ensuring operational capabilities effectively support business objectives and evolving customer needs. Working closely with executive leadership and cross-functional partners, this individual will identify opportunities to improve efficiency, strengthen service levels, optimize costs, and build scalable operational processes that support long-term growth.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a strategic and hands-on leader who excels at balancing daily operational execution with long-term planning. The successful candidate will lead high-performing teams, drive continuous improvement initiatives, leverage operational data to inform decision-making, and help shape the future of the company's distribution network, including evaluating and supporting potential expansion opportunities as business needs evolve.

Strategic Operations & Distribution Network Leadership

• Serve as the company's operational leader for warehouse and logistics strategy, ensuring distribution capabilities support business growth, customer expectations, and organizational objectives.
• Develop and execute short- and long-term operational strategies focused on network optimization, scalability, capacity planning, and cost efficiency.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with Purchasing, Sales, Customer Service, Finance, and executive leadership to improve supply chain performance and operational effectiveness.
• Provide data-driven recommendations regarding facility utilization, labor models, inventory positioning, transportation strategy, and capital investments.
• Establish performance metrics and reporting frameworks that enable visibility into operational health, service performance, costs, and productivity trends.
• Identify risks and opportunities across the distribution network and implement mitigation and contingency plans to ensure business continuity.
• Participate in annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic growth initiatives impacting warehousing and logistics operations.

Distribution Network & Warehouse Operations Leadership

• Provide strategic oversight of all distribution operations, ensuring current warehouse capabilities and future distribution network expansion align with organizational objectives and growth strategies
• Develop and implement network strategies that optimize throughput, inventory placement, labor utilization, storage capacity, and facility performance across multiple locations.
• Lead operational planning efforts that support business growth, seasonal demand fluctuations, facility expansion, and evolving customer requirements.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that improve warehouse productivity, operational discipline, workplace safety, and process consistency across the distribution network.
• Ensure operational excellence through standardized systems, controls, reporting, and accountability measures.

Inventory Management & Operational Performance

• Provide strategic leadership for inventory management practices that ensure high levels of inventory accuracy, product availability, and operational efficiency across warehouse and distribution operations.
• Partner with Purchasing and Finance to improve inventory visibility, inventory controls, cycle counting programs, inventory valuation accuracy, and operational reporting.
• Establish processes, performance metrics, and accountability measures that strengthen inventory integrity and support accurate order fulfillment.
• Leverage operational data and analytics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities related to inventory accuracy, warehouse productivity, and fulfillment performance.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective action initiatives related to inventory discrepancies, shipping errors, operational inefficiencies, and customer-impacting fulfillment issues.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators that provide visibility into inventory accuracy, order quality, warehouse productivity, and service level performance.
• Ensure consistent inventory management processes and controls that support operational excellence and scalable business growth.

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