Distribution Center Supervisor

The Boler Company®•Elgin, IL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Manage the daily distribution activities and supervise warehouse personnel by developing and maintaining a safe, highly motivated, and well-trained work force. This role involves direct supervision of distribution center associates, performing supervisory tasks such as managing start & out time, payroll, training on job requirements, performance reviews, and improvements related to job layout, warehouse efficiency, quality, fill & pick rates, cross-training & team rotations. The supervisor will maintain adequate staff levels while supporting Anchor Harvey safety programs, conduct daily shift meetings, and coordinate activities between customer service/office personnel for inbound/outbound shipments. Additionally, the role requires communication and coordination of logistics activities with other departments/plants, maintaining internal/external shipment accuracy, managing warehouse inventory, and ensuring inventory processing accuracy (IPA) through auditing and a documented cycle count program. The supervisor will also perform layer audits, document findings, troubleshoot problems, and follow company policies, procedures, and guidelines, including offering plant/company-wide continuous improvement suggestions.

Requirements

High School Diploma /Equivalent.
Minimum of five years of supervisory experience in a distribution center setting.
Demonstrated experience in process improvement utilizing lean manufacturing concepts.
Excellent interpersonal skills, leadership skills, and problem solving skills with a commitment to drive for results.
Ability to speak effectively in front of groups.
Basic computer skills including word processing, Excel spreadsheets and email correspondence.
Flexibility in work hours.
Ability to work in a variety of environments which may include exposure to extreme heat, humidity, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, loud noise, and all weather conditions.
Regularly required to talk or hear.
Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, climb or balance and stoop, knee, crouch, or crawl.
Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
Understand the workings of the organization specifically the formal and informal policies and structures.
Value and respect the concerns and feelings of others. Communicate empathy towards others, respect for the individual, and appreciation of diversity among team members.
Recognize that conflict can be a valuable part of the decision-making process. Comfortable with healthy conflict, and support and manage differences of opinion. Use consensus and collaboration to debate and resolve issues.
Create and maintain functional work units. Understand human dynamics of team formation and maintenance. Develop and communicate clear team goals and roles. Provide guidance and management when appropriate. Foster a team atmosphere.
Maintain appropriate focus on outcomes and accomplishments. Motivated by achievement, and persist until the goal is reached. Conveys a sense of urgency to make things happen. Respect the need to balance short- and long-term goals.
Think and act ethically and honestly. Apply ethical standards of behavior to daily work activities. Take responsibility for their actions and foster a work environment where integrity is rewarded.
Able to establish and maintain productive relationships. Good at interacting with people and devote appropriate time and energy to establish and maintain networks. Utilize relationships to facilitate business transactions.
Clear, frequent information. Offer full attention when others speak. Actively seek information from a variety of sources and disseminate it in a variety of ways. Clearly and articulately convey information to others in casual or informal situations. Able to interpret body language. Ability to organize and deliver public speeches that effectively inform or persuade others. Clearly and concisely composing informative and convincing memos, emails, letters, reports.
Display a high level of energy and the motivation to sustain it over time. Ambitious and passionate about their role in the organization. Ability to maintain a healthy work/life balance.
Skilled at direction, persuading and motivating others. Ability to flex their style to direct, collaborate, or empower as the situation requires.
Display strong organizing and planning skills that allow them to be highly effective and efficient. Manage their time wisely, and effectively prioritize multiple competing tasks.
Ability to identify problems, solve them, act decisively, and to show good judgement. Isolate causes from symptoms. Find balance between studying the problem and solving it.

Nice To Haves

Associates or College Degree highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Direct Supervision of distribution center associates.
Perform supervisory tasks such as managing start & out time, payroll, training on job requirements, performance reviews, improvements related to job layout, warehouse efficiency, quality, fill & pick rates, cross training & team rotations, maintain adequate staff levels while supporting Anchor Harvey safety programs.
Conduct daily shift meeting to communicate information related to the operation, or general company.
Coordinate activities between customer service / office personnel for inbound/outbound shipments.
Communicate and coordinate logistics activities with other departments/plants.
Maintain internal/external shipment accuracy.
Manage warehouse inventory to include disposition of obsolete inventory, rotation of finished goods and to organize stock to fit departmental goals.
Maintain inventory processing accuracy (IPA) through auditing and a documented cycle count program.
Perform layer audits/document findings/troubleshoot problems to correct.
Follow company policies, procedures and guidelines including the company handbook.
Offer plant/companywide continuous improvement suggestions.