Operations Coverage Supervisor/Leadership Trainee

Union Beer Distributors • Secaucus, NJ

7d • $65,000 - $75,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role is ideal for someone who wants broad operational exposure, real responsibility, and a path toward advancement. If you are dependable, flexible, accountable, and ready to grow, this position offers the opportunity to learn the full operation and build a strong leadership career. We run lean, move fast, and set high standards.

Requirements

• 2+ years of warehouse, logistics, inventory, distribution, delivery, or operations leadership experience preferred.
• Willingness to work days, afternoons, nights, weekends, holidays, and peak-season schedules as business needs require.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to lead hourly teams in a fast-paced, physically active warehouse environment.
• High attention to detail, follow-through, urgency, and ability to manage multiple priorities without losing control of the floor.
• Comfort using Excel and warehouse systems such as VIP, EasyOps, LBI, iDIG/DataViewer, voice-pick tools, OpenDock, or similar systems preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with beverage distribution, receiving, inventory control, returns, QC, loading, public warehouse, or PIT-heavy operations is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervisory coverage across warehouse functions when managers or supervisors are off, stretched, or focused on higher-priority needs.
• Support day, afternoon, and night operations, including receiving, returns, putaway, inventory follow-up, QC, staging, loading, and shift handoff.
• Help direct hourly workflow, communicate expectations, monitor floor conditions, and escalate service, safety, inventory, or quality risks early.
• Assist with workload balancing, labor coverage, equipment allocation, facility readiness, vendor follow-up, and operational projects.
• Use warehouse systems, Excel, reports, and dashboards to support follow-up on exceptions, inventory issues, breakage, shorts, returns, and process failures.
• Reinforce SOPs, safety rules, PPE, PIT/dock safety, housekeeping, product rotation, code-date discipline, and company work-rule expectations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed