** Warehouse Manager**

**Job Category****:** Warehouse **Requisition Number****:** WAREH004616 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

**Key Accountabilities:**

**The following are essential duties and responsibilities for this position:**

* Adhere to all health and safety policies/procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and wear the required personal protective equipment (PPE) while in the warehouse or production areas.

* Responsible to adhere to food quality and food safety as per quality standards and/or Safe Quality Food requirements.

* Overseeing the loading and unloading of all inventory and product for the location.

* Direct and coordinate the activities of the warehouse and establish and maintain budget control.

* Development of the team and continuous improvement in the performance of all team members by setting clear and challenging goals and objectives.

* Maintain strong links with 3rd party suppliers through regular meetings and ensure that any issues are being addressed.

* Ensure that all stock issues are resolved and feedback to relevant managers on key performance indicators such as accuracy, performance, output and efficiency.

* Set the environment of the company by demonstrating our values, standards, and practices.

* Personnel responsibilities to include training, scheduling, supervising, and evaluation of all warehouse personnel, coordination of training activities, developing a team atmosphere, and monitoring all employees through performance appraisals, coaching, and discipline.

* Manage stock destruction and aged stock removal process.

* Ensure warehouse personnel are responsible for duties such as good house-keeping, stock counts, and where appropriate movement of stock through use of pallet truck or fork lift truck.

* Establish priorities and direct loading workforce to satisfy customer demand.

* Plan and execute logistics needs with trucking firms to ensure timely pick-up and delivery of shipments, while minimizing overall freight costs.

* Review and resolve operational problems to minimize cost and prevent operational delays.

* Negotiate trucking contracts with relevant parties to ensure freight costs are competitive.

* Responsible for the security of the product and warehouse.

* Handle all damaged product orders and monitor status of returned products.

* Communicate with manufacturing personnel to ensure appropriate materials are available to meet production requirements.

* Developing and implementing policies, procedures and SOPs to ensure consistent quality and operating efficiency.

* Ensure compliance with DOT and other safety regulatory agencies, as well as maintaining the material handling equipment, ensuring that all warehouse personnel are certified on equipment.

**Skills/Qualifications:**

* Experience in Food/ Beverage Manufacturing preferred

* Proficient in Excel, Word, SAP and Power Point

* Proven Leadership experience in a Production environment

* Proven understanding and experience with financial processes including budgeting.

* Must have excellent communication skills and the ability to develop a team environment promoting internal growth.

* Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

* Initiative, the ability to work independently, strong customer service orientation, strong written and verbal skills and flexibility, vision and creativity.

* High level of accountability, quality and innovation (strives for high performance, emphasizes problem prevention, develops ideas for improvement, document new processes, and ensures accuracy of information.

* Ability to prioritize and multi-task in an organized, detailed manner, given limited time frames.

**Education and Experience:**

* Undergraduate degree in a related field. APICS designation an asset.

* 7 years relevant work experience in warehouse logistics management

**Working Conditions:**

* **Physical**-Continuously standing or walking. Regular requirements to lift/handle/carry material or equipment of moderate weight.

* **Visual/Sensory**-This position requires regular need to give moderate attention with one or two senses at a time.

* **Work environment**- Work and environment are very repetitive.

* **Mental Stress**- There is pronounced pressure from deadlines, production quotas, accuracy or similar demands.

**Qualifications**

**Skills**

**Behaviors**

**Preferred**

**Team Player****:** Works well as a member of a group

**Loyal****:** Shows firm and constant support to a cause

**Leader****:** Inspires teammates to follow them

**Functional Expert****:** Considered a thought leader on a subject

**Detail Oriented****:** Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

**Dedicated****:** Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

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**Motivations**

**Preferred**

**Entrepreneurial Spirit****:** Inspired to perform well by an ability to drive new ventures within the business

**Ability to Make an Impact****:** Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization

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**Education**

**Preferred**

Bachelors or better.

**Experience**

**Licenses & Certifications**