Warehouse & Distribution Site Leader

Warehouse & Distribution Site Leader

20 Mar 2024
Pennsylvania, Lancaster, 17601 Lancaster USA

Warehouse & Distribution Site Leader

We seek an experienced and strategic Senior Warehouse Manager to oversee our warehouse facilities' efficient and effective operation. The successful candidate will be responsible for optimizing processes, managing inventory, and leading a team to ensure the timely and accurate fulfillment of orders. The Senior Warehouse Manager will play a pivotal role in maintaining a smooth workflow, implementing best practices, reducing costs, and driving continuous improvement within the warehouse.

Managing warehouse associates, monitoring work, and ensuring the safe use of warehouse equipment

Establish warehouse practices and protocols to achieve an efficient warehouse.

Set warehouse and team goals in collaboration with executive management and other team leads.

Keep up to date on the latest federal and state safety regulations.

Communicate with other departments to ensure products are shipped on time.

Audit and report inventory control.

Overall warehouse management, purchasing, delivery routing, and general maintenance of products and vehicles in facilities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

-Meets warehouse operations' financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.

-Develops and maintains a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.

-Develop warehouse design by planning layout, product flow, and product handling systems; evaluate and recommend new equipment.

-Writes and reviews warehouse Standard Operating Procedures, Temporary Changes, and Variance Investigation Reports.

-Develops warehouse operations systems by determining product handling and storage requirements; developing, implementing, enforcing, and evaluating policies and procedures; developing processes for receiving the product, equipment utilization, inventory management, and shipping.

-Staffs, trains, and develops warehouse team members.

-Plans and assigns the workload for the warehouse team to meet daily departmental requirements.

-Creates and monitors the warehouse targets and KPIs.

-Maintains the warehouse operations in compliance with current policies and guidelines.

-Ensures completion of cycle counts to ensure accurate inventory count.

-Comply with OSHA and MSDS Standards.

-Organizes and monitors the cycle counting inventory.

-Interfaces and solves problems with other departments' management.

Required Experience & Education:

Leadership experience within a high-volume distribution center

Medical equipment experience, pharmaceutical, life science, or similarly regulated industry experience

Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) experience and/or EWM experience required

BA/BS Degree in business, logistics, technical discipline or equivalent is required.

Knowledge / Specific Competencies:

Experience leading a warehouse team, including hiring, training, and motivating.

Knowledgeable of a direct-to-consumer fulfillment operation.

Demonstrated understanding of SAP.

Strong leadership skills, ability to lead by example and manage multiple tasks.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, tight deadline environment.

Proven organization skills, attention to detail, follow-through, and time management skills

Strong written/verbal communication skills,

Strong analytical, math, and problem-solving skills.

Strong customer service focus.

Lean, Six Sigma and Continuous Process Improvement knowledge and experience

Job Type: Full-time

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