Warehouse Manager

Why Choose Us

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Responsible and accountable for staging the warehouse floor, managing inventory counts, forecasting and planning shipments, implementing warehouse procedures, and monitoring and supervising the work of shipping and receiving employees in the Warehouse department. This position includes standard managerial functions such as but not limited to:
1) overseeing new employee training and evaluation,
2) ensuring employee performance standards are met, and
3) administering corrective actions and disciplinary actions.

• Understand, administer and enforce all corporate and plant safety and compliance rules to employees under direct supervision.
• Monitor and ensure employees have a safe work environment.
• Reinforce PPE policies, requiring all employees to wear steel-toed shoes, hearing protection, safety glasses, hair nets/beard nets, etc.
• Ensure assigned work area is kept clean and organized properly as new inventory arrives.
• Monitor and ensure that all employees in assigned area follow all applicable food safety policies and procedures.
• Coordinate and facilitate all shipping and receiving of finished goods, raw material, and other miscellaneous items.
• Serve as warehouse manager to ensure all company goals and objectives are met. Hold employees accountable for performing all job assignments.
• Oversee placement of incoming trucks.
• Provide accurate forecasts of shipping and warehouse activity.
• Work in conjunction with Finished Goods and Roll Stock Cycle Counters to maintain inventory control of finished goods for plant.
• Maintain warehouse area for finished goods by completing inventory counts, weekly zone audits and addressing issues.
• Communicate with Production, Maintenance and Scheduling in coordinating shipping responsibilities.
• Understand company policies and procedures and hold employees on shift accountable according to the guidelines set forth in the agreement and by management.
• Evaluate employee performance, and administer counseling and/or disciplinary action, making sure that recurring problems are brought to the attention of the Plant or Operations Manager.
• Evaluate newly hired employees and make recommendations to Plant Manager and/or Human Resources Manager as to retraining and retention.
• Train new employees or assign them to workers to be trained.
• Listen to and report any grievances to manager; must be present at first step grievance meeting with Shipping/Receiving Manager.
• Ensure proper supplies are kept for the department while keeping costs to a minimum.
• Meet/achieve safety, quality, production, waste, housekeeping and cost goals set forth by management.
• Inputs data into computer software applications (SAP system and TRANSPLACE web application).
• Will provide back up to…