Warehouse Supervisor: First Shift

MSI Express•Batavia, IL

6d•$70,000 - $75,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Warehouse Supervisor is responsible for ensuring warehousing, shipping, and receiving targets are met or exceeded. This involves training and developing workers, managing employee scheduling, overseeing inventories, and coordinating inbound and outbound trucks. The role also focuses on preserving product quality through proactive involvement in process improvement, conducting plant audits, and collaborating with other departments to resolve quality, production, and efficiency issues. The supervisor will identify and implement improvements, serve as an information source for other departments, support customer service during visits and audits, and assist the Plant Manager with special projects. Ensuring adherence to safety and GMP guidelines is also a key responsibility.

Requirements

Supervise, manage and develop warehousing personnel.
Conduct plant audits and reviews of warehouse assuring company standards are maintained.
Work with other departments to resolve quality, production, and efficiency problems.
Identify and help to implement improvements.
Function as an information source to various departments to continuously improve operations.
Support customer service during customer visits and audits.
Support the Plant Manager on special department projects.
Ensure workers are following safety and GMP guidelines.
Train and develop workers.
Manage employee scheduling.
Manage inventories and inbound and outbound trucks.
Ensure product quality is preserved through proactive involvement in process improvement.
Understand SOPs and provide improvement ideas and upgrades.
Ensure employees are properly trained on SOPs.
Ensure SOP training is properly documented.

Responsibilities

Ensure all personnel work safely and that the workplace is clean, organized, and safe.
Conduct safety discussions with all personnel.
Oversee overall shift management and coordination of all warehouse functions.
Work collaboratively with all departments to ensure smooth operations.
Manage employee scheduling.
Ensure effective equipment operation and warehouse efficiencies are met.
Manage material receiving/finished goods shipping, documentation, and execution to maintain product quality.
Work with customers to ensure their shipping and receiving goals are met.
Manage the organization of the warehouse.
Drive food safety and quality of materials through worker training, development, and ensuring warehouse equipment is properly functioning and operated.
Generate work orders for equipment issues and improvements.
Responsible for Inventory Management, including ensuring proper inventory levels are maintained, managing finished goods levels, working with external warehouses, and performing inventory cycle counts.
Ensure inventory systems Bill of Materials are set up for proper relief of inventories during production.
Manage the scheduling of deliveries with suppliers and manage exceptions.
Understand Warehouse processes, including shipping and receiving.
Review warehouse efficiencies and work with all departments to improve throughput.
Work with management to improve efficiencies and reduce cost.
Track improvement ideas to understand the effectiveness of changes.
Support personnel training and development, ensuring warehouse personnel are trained on SOPs, equipment checklists, quality inspections, and monitoring materials.
Ensure warehouse personnel are trained on warehousing, general operations, food safety, and quality SOPs.
Assess employee performance, develop improvement plans, and implement training to increase employee skills and performance.
Provide regular, documented feedback to employees to improve performance.
Implement and review SOPs in areas of responsibility, providing improvement ideas and upgrades.
Ensure employees are properly trained on SOPs and that training is properly documented.
Perform other duties as assigned.