Warehouse Supervisor

SUMMARY: This position is responsible for the shipping, receiving and material handling functions within the Warehouse.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: * Coordinate and monitor the activities of employees engaged in receiving, shipping and transporting product and materials; assure production lines are serviced efficiently * Maintain safe working environment through education, training, and continuous improvement of material handling functions; identify and correct safety deficiencies * Assure adherence to warehouse SOPs, cGMPs and work rules * Responsible for proper maintenance of all warehouse equipment, including scheduling preventative and routine maintenance * Coordinate with warehouse personnel to assure adequate levels of supplies are maintained to prevent any down time * Manage inventory through cycle counts and audits to verify results; investigate and correct discrepancies * Maintain documentation of customer requirements and train warehouse personnel accordingly * Responsible for compliance with OSHA, DOT and IATA regulations and standards * Responsible for performing supervisory functions such as training, employee development, performance evaluations, and enforcing company policies and procedures * Other duties as assigned SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This position supervises shipping and receiving clerks, material handler and inventory personnel.
COMPETENCIES: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies: Ability to Execute - Targets and achieves results, sets and accomplishes challenging goals, prioritizes and manages tasks effectively, maintains an organized system to monitor progress, overcomes obstacles, accepts accountability, sets standards and responsibilities, may provide leadership/motivation.
Commitment to Task - Meets commitments, works independently, accepts ownership of projects and outcomes, takes personal responsibility and sets objectives/standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements, shows a sense of urgency about getting results.
Communication - Clearly exchanges thoughts, ideas and messages through written, verbal and non-verbal methods that promote an understanding with the target audience.
Creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers engaging presentations, shares information and ideas with others in a timely manner.
Listens carefully and attentively.
Customer Focus - For both internal and external customers, builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met in a timely manner, solicits opinions and ideas from customers.
Diversity - Supports an inclusive workplace, incorporates different viewpoints and ideas to maximize performance and contributions of employees, develops strengths in team members, deals respectfully with colleagues, customers and vendors at all levels, understands his/her role in building and sustaining a culture of high performance.
Initiative - Tackles problems and takes independent action, seeks out new responsibilities, acts on opportunities, generates new ideas, practices self-development, demonstrates a bias for action without prompting.
Innovation - Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, pursues ongoing improvements, supports change, encourages originality, solves problems creatively.
Quality - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, continuously looks for improvements, finds root cause of problems, owns/acts on problems, seeks opportunities to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
Safety Mindset - Promotes a respect for safety, keeps workplace clean and safe, supports safety programs, policies/procedures, takes preventative and corrective action to address potential safety hazards and prevent future injuries, resists temptation to cut corners where safety is concerned, follows all safety related company policies and complies with location specific safety rules, drives safely on and off company property.
QUALIFICATIONS The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience High school diploma or GED with a minimum of two (2) years experience in a warehouse environment and prior supervisory experience preferred Language Skills Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
May require the ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
May require the ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Mathematical Skills Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Reasoning Ability Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Computer Skills To perform this job successfully, an individual should be proficient in Microsoft Office including Excel and Word as well as AS400 experience.
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS Proficient math skills and a minimum of two (2) years material handling equipment experience