Warehouse Supervisor

Location: Hillsboro
Company Background

Ornua is a dairy co-operative which sells dairy products on behalf of its members, Ireland's dairy processors and, in turn, Irish dairy farmers. Founded in 1961, the Ornua Co-operative has become Ireland's largest exporter of Irish dairy products, exporting to 110 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin, it has annualized sales of over $4.3 billion and a global team of 2,900 employees.

Ornua operates from 10 global business units, including 13 production facilities located worldwide.

The Ornua family is structured across two divisions:
Ornua Foods and Ornua Ingredients. Ornua Foods is responsible for the marketing and sales of Ornua's consumer brands including Kerrygold, Dubliner, Pilgrims Choice, Forto and BEO. Ornua Ingredients is responsible for the procurement of Irish and non-Irish dairy products and for the sale of ingredients to food manufacturing and food service customers around the world.

Ornua Ingredients North America is the largest of the four global Ornua Ingredients organizations worldwide, with USA-based processing and innovation that services customers across the western hemisphere.

Ornua's Values

At Ornua, our Values lie at the core of everything that we do and how we behave both individually and as a business. Our five values, and their underlying behaviors, encourage us to Seek and Embrace New Ideas, Make It Happen, Be Our True Selves, Show You Care and Achieve Great Things Together.

Ornua's Growth

At Ornua, our co-operative ethos lies at the heart of how we do business. We care passionately about driving sustainable, profitable growth, underpinned by our ambitious 'Path to Prosper' strategy. We have delivered significant growth in our core business, and we have ambitious plans for continued growth over the next five years.

WHY THIS ROLE IS VALUABLE

The Warehouse Supervisor is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the Warehouse, including managing employees within the department, meeting company and customer targets and requirements, and complying with health, safety and standard operating procedures. This role ensures inventory accuracy of the site by executing cycle counts, investigating discrepancies, and keeping physical inventory aligned with the Warehouse Management (WMS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

The role also manages the timely receipt and shipment of materials across all warehouse locations.

This position reports directly to the Plant Manager at the Hillsboro location for Ornua Ingredients North America.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• Enforces established safety guidelines to promote a safe work environment.

• Overseas daily warehouse operations and supervises warehouse team members and the shipping and receiving of all materials.

• Assists in the planning, assignment, and execution of daily and weekly operational work goals in all warehouse phases, including shipping and receiving.

• Ensures requests for quality samples to be delivered to the Quality Lab.

• Oversees maintenance of physical condition and organization of warehouse.

• Monitors and motivates team members to meet deadlines and target goals.

• Ensures accurate and timely shipment and receipts.

• Perform duties following all good manufacturing practices (GMP's) including food, equipment, and operating safety requirements.

• Performs routine warehouse inspections on racks and storage areas for structural damage and submits work orders for timely repair

• Manage onsite equipment used in supporting warehouse operations

• Ensures inventory accuracy of site by executing cycle counts, investigating discrepancies, and keeping physical inventory aligned with the Warehouse Management (WMS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems

• Ensures timely completion of all cycle counts while delivering on inventory accuracy targets.

• Ensures that Warehouse is shipping and receiving materials timely and maintaining alignment between physical stock, Warehouse Management (WMS) and Enterprise Requirements Planning (ERP) systems.

• Maintains strong attention to material utilization, process flow, cycle time, Lean manufacturing and inventory control.

• Schedule trucking of incoming raw materials shipments and outgoing…