Senior Manager Distribution Center Quality & Safety

Movado Group•Moonachie, NJ

21d•Onsite

About The Position

The Distribution Center Quality & Safety Manager strengthens quality assurance, operational compliance, and workplace safety at Movado Group’s Moonachie Distribution Center. The role owns processes and controls that help ensure products are received, handled, stored, inspected, picked, packed, and shipped according to established standards. It is accountable for confirming that appropriate teams perform and document required inspections and quality controls, identifying gaps, leading root cause analysis, and driving corrective action; it is not the primary product inspector. The position also leads facility safety programs, audits, training, and continuous improvement. The successful candidate is hands-on, visible, and collaborative, able to establish structure as processes develop, partner with operational leaders, escalate unresolved risks, and hold teams accountable for corrective actions. The role develops and executes risk-based audits; analyzes inspection results, customer complaints, supplier issues, audit findings, and operational data; and leads root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action activities. It maintains quality KPIs and a centralized corrective action log, coordinates investigations and training, maintains procedures and records, and reports significant trends and risks to leadership. The position may stop or suspend work, equipment use, or activities presenting imminent or serious worker-health or safety risks or significant environmental harm, and promptly escalate the matter. This is an on-site, benefit-eligible position at the Moonachie Distribution Center. The base salary range is $100,000 to $125,000 per year, with possible annual bonus eligibility depending on company and individual performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
At least 5 years of progressive experience in distribution, warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, quality, EHS, compliance, or continuous improvement.
At least 3 years of experience in a distribution center, warehouse, manufacturing, or similarly operational environment.
Demonstrated experience conducting process, quality, safety, or compliance audits.
Experience leading root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action plans.
Experience investigating operational errors, product damage, shipment inaccuracies, workplace incidents, and near misses.
Working knowledge of OSHA requirements and workplace safety practices, including hazard identification, PPE, ergonomics, emergency preparedness, equipment safety, and employee training.
Experience developing, implementing, or improving safety and quality procedures, work instructions, audit programs, and training materials.
Experience tracking corrective actions, assigning owners and due dates, and verifying actions are completed and effective.
Strong analytical skills and ability to use operational data, audit findings, customer complaints, and incident trends to identify recurring risks.
Demonstrated ability to influence department managers and frontline leaders without direct reporting authority.
Strong communication, organization, follow-through, and documentation skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Ability to work on-site at the Moonachie Distribution Center.
Ability to spend significant time on the distribution center floor, including standing, walking, and observing operational processes.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or formalizing a site-level quality, compliance, or EHS governance program.
Experience in jewelry, watches, retail, luxury goods, consumer products, or another high-value product environment.
Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, or other continuous-improvement experience.
OSHA 30-hour, ASP, CSP, or similar safety certification.
Experience with a warehouse management system, quality management system, audit platform, or EHS management system.
Experience supporting internal, customer, regulatory, or third-party audits.
Experience working with supplier, transportation, packaging, labeling, or product-damage issues.
Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills.

Responsibilities

Ensure required incoming, in-process, and outbound inspections are performed by appropriate teams and properly documented.
Audit receiving, storage, picking, handling, packing, labeling, and shipping for compliance with quality standards.
Identify control gaps and partner with Distribution leadership to implement corrective actions and preventive controls.
Promote consistent product handling, packaging, labeling, and quality practices throughout the facility.
Monitor and analyze shipment errors, including incorrect SKU shipments, product damage, packaging problems, and other quality failures.
Investigate whether product damage originated with a supplier, during transportation, or within Distribution Center operations.
Review picking, scanning, verification, handling, packing, and shipping controls to identify root causes and reduce repeat issues.
Track corrective actions through completion and verify that improvements are sustained.
Develop and execute a risk-based audit program covering receiving, handling, storage, inspection, packaging, shipping, workstation protection, cleanliness, and product movement.
Analyze inspection results, customer complaints, supplier issues, audit findings, and operational data to identify trends and recurring risks.
Lead or facilitate root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action activities.
Maintain quality KPIs and a centralized corrective action log with owners, due dates, status, and follow-up verification.
Serve as the Distribution Center lead for EHS programs, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Conduct risk assessments, inspections, and audits, and ensure corrective actions are completed.
Coordinate incident and near-miss investigations, root cause analysis, emergency preparedness, and preventive actions.
Support EHS training, employee communication, and proactive reporting of safety and environmental concerns.
Monitor compliance with applicable safety, environmental, PPE, equipment, hazardous substance, waste management, and training requirements.
Partner with Distribution leadership, the global EHS lead, and Human Resources to reinforce EHS accountability.
Maintain required EHS records and report significant risks, incidents, compliance issues, and overdue actions.
Coordinate quality, product handling, process compliance, and safety training for Distribution Center employees.
Maintain procedures, work instructions, standards, audit records, and training documentation.
Work across Distribution, Quality, Customer Operations, Customer Service, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and other teams to resolve quality and safety issues.
Regularly report quality and safety trends, key risks, open corrective actions, and improvement priorities to leadership.
Audit Distribution Center processes and documentation for compliance with established quality and safety requirements.
Identify and document process, quality, and safety nonconformances and require assignment of corrective actions to appropriate process owners.
Recommend increased inspection, additional verification controls, retraining, process changes, or other corrective measures when risks are identified.
Escalate significant, recurring, or unresolved quality and safety concerns to Distribution leadership and appropriate business partners.
Verify that agreed corrective actions have been completed and are effective.
Stop or suspend work, equipment use, or activities presenting an imminent or serious risk to worker health or safety or a significant risk of environmental harm, and promptly escalate the matter to Distribution leadership.