Warehouse Operations Leader - First Shift

Barry-Wehmiller•Green Bay, WI

9d•Onsite

About The Position

BW Converting is a strategic alliance of resources and services that bring together several Barry-Wehmiller companies. These industry leaders offer trusted brands and innovative technologies in the design, manufacture, and service of high-performance converting and packaging machinery for the tissue, nonwovens, hygiene, bag-converting, mailing, and printing industries. Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world. This role coordinates daily warehouse operations, leading a team of associates who receive, identify, and manage the staging and distribution of a wide variety of raw material, manufactured and purchased components for additional processing, assembly, machining, or direct shipment, to internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of warehouse and inventory leadership experience preferred, or 5 years of related warehouse experience.
Leadership experience in one or more of the areas of manufacturing, warehouse and inventory leadership, and/or lean deployment, with transformational responsibilities.
Proven success designing, implementing, communicating, meeting goals, including improving through-put, shortening cycle time, improving inventory turns, and reducing supply chain costs.
Demonstrated problem solving skills using root cause analysis and other lean tools.
Skilled in analytics and statistical process control, change management, and legacy quality tools such as PDCA, FMEA, control plans, etc.

Nice To Haves

Ability to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

Ensure timely and accurate distribution of parts to ensure assembly teams can start on time.
Coordinate and manage daily and on-going warehouse operation activities, including cycle counts, intercompany and direct shipment, and stocking strategies.
Serve as the primary contact concerning warehouse operations issues.
Lead a team of personnel who receive, identify, issue, store, or kit materials and parts.
Develop standards and processes based on improvement opportunities or quality/cost concerns.
Provide support for operations in safety, quality, performance, and productivity improvement opportunities.
Proactively engage the warehouse operations, purchasing and assembly teams to eliminate trending issues and concerns affecting the customer.
Analyze current state processes for internal and external customer support and develop plans to address areas of need.
Support a culture of continuous improvement through Lean journey by assisting with development and coaching of associates and team leaders on Lean principles.
Perform other duties as assigned.