Warehouse Manager

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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE. CUSTOMERS. PRODUCTS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce
  
  

Job Purpose And Overview

As a Warehouse Manufacturing Manager at Dawn, you are responsible to direct the flow of materials through the facility to include inventory control, warehousing, inbound/outbound transportation, and production scheduling.

What Will You do as a Warehouse Manager at Dawn Foods ?

• Leadership and motivation of Team Members to achieve the goals of Dawn Food Products.
• Develops and implements inventory control procedures to determine optimum levels. Coordinates daily cycle counts.
• Manages the Shipping and Receiving functions of the warehouse to ensure the receipt, coordination and safety of goods coming through the warehouse. Inspects physical condition of warehouse and equipment. Prepares work order for repairs and requisitions for replacement of equipment.
• Develops and maintains transportation and distribution procedures to maximize delivery efficiency. Selects appropriate delivery methods to minimize costs and maximize Customer satisfaction. Ensures that orders arrive and are dispatched on time to the appropriate destination.
• Manages the production scheduling function to ensure production efficiencies and acceptable fill rates, while maintaining approved finished goods inventory.
• Interfaces with the Production Team Leaders on the planning and forecasting of Customer orders to meet shipments.
• Ensures plant-wide compliance with Dawn’s Quality System.
• Monitors department budget objectives and insures that cost effective methods are being used.
• Directly supervises Dawn People in Shipping, Receiving, Transportation, Inventory Control and Production Scheduling areas. Interviews, conducts performance appraisals, directs work activities, trains and/or coordinates training for team members based on department requirements.
  
  

What Does It Take to be a Warehouse Manager at Dawn Foods?

Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.

• Bachelor's Degree required, or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED required and four years of relevant work experience work in business management, logistics, warehousing, or equivalent related field.
• Five years related experience in the supervisory capacity of materials control, including transportation, warehousing, and inventory control required.
• Forklift Training Certification preferred.
• Operational knowledge of computer software (Excel, Word, Access, AS400, E-mail, Internet applications, etc) or ability to learn these skills.
• Excellent oral, written, and communication skills.
• Exposure to and experience with GMP’s, AIB standards, understand HAACP programs, USDA guidelines, OSHA Standards, and Plant Safety Programs
• Experience with SAP is strongly preferred.
  
  

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to grasp, move, or utilize objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to use sensory perception for quality measurement of products.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and frequently lift and/or move 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus
• Temperature fluctuates with the season – colder during the winter/warmer during the summer
• Working around heavy machinery – hearing protection required in production area
  
  

Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here.

Company Provided/Required PPE

• Non-slip shoes
• Gloves
• Hair Net
• Beard Net (if needed)
• Safety googles/ safety ear protection
• Additional PPE may be required
  
  

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.”

About Our Benefits

Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits.

Compensation

$76,460-$119,280 plus annual bonus potential

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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.