Warehouse Supervisor: 12-Month Contract

Role Summary

As a Warehouse Supervisor, you will be responsible for all aspects of material flow, shipping and receiving in regards to safety, quality, cost and delivery requirements to both internal and external customers. Within this role, you will be expected to drive the business forward, streamline the operation and engage in continuous improvement. This position reports to the Warehouse Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise hourly unionized employees in all shipping, receiving, and warehousing operations.
• Ensure Warehouse Teams are adhering to all Plant processes and policies.
• Manage and optimize warehouse layout to ensure efficient flow of finished goods and materials.
• Manage Lean Manufacturing initiatives in Warehouse.
• Ensure timely delivery of all finished goods as per customer requirements and meet customer delivery performance rating criteria.
• Educating, coaching, counseling employees through effective communication and motivation.
• Developing employees to become autonomous work teams and effective leaders.
• Facilitate continuous improvement activities within the Warehouse area.
• Manage system integrity and use problem solving methodologies with team to drive to root cause and permanent corrective action.
• Provide technical support to problem solving activities such as 8D investigations, interfacing with other plant departments on a continuous basis.
• Assist in evaluation of employee suggestions and implementation of approved ideas.
• Ensure Health & Safety compliance in accordance with company policies.

Key Qualifications/Requirements

Education

• Post-secondary degree/diploma

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years of related experience in warehousing supervision.
• Proven ability to build and lead a high functioning team fast paced environment.
• Strong industry knowledge of Shipping & Receiving, Lean Manufacturing, JIT, Kanban, 5S.
• Strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to grasp and understand complex business processes from a high-level while being able to validate the processes at the detail level.
• Understanding of or experience in defining IT requirements.
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office products including Excel, Word, Access, Power Point and many customer portals.
• Must possess strong computer skills and the proven ability to navigate multiple computer systems.
• Knowledge of Future 3, Enterprise One, Trace, Crystal and SAP would be a great asset.
• Experience in designing warehouse layouts and material flow.