What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Supervisor position at St. Mary's Food Bank?
Position Summary
This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining successful operations of an assigned area, department, or shift of the warehouse/distribution center. It ensures that the department has adequate staffing, proper training, the needed tools and resources, standards of productivity, safety and sanitation, proper procedures of selecting/staging/receiving/loading, and quality that will meet customer/agency demands for accurate, quality, on-time deliveries.
Schedule: 5am – 1:30pm
Specific Departmental Duties
Department: Warehouse Staging & AM Operations – This role ensures the timely staging, organization, and verification of daily outbound & source orders. Also, this individual will coordinate the loading/unloading of transfers, yard organization, and any early morning driver/Transportation needs. All coaching and accountability for this team will be expected to be developed and monitored by this supervisor.
Essential Functions
Scope and Complexity
May interact with all levels of leadership, employees, agency representatives, community neighbors, volunteers, external vendors, and clients.
Physical Demands/Environment Factors
Qualified candidates are invited to submit their resume to: https://jobs.firstfoodbank.org/
St. Mary’s Food Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other protected status under all applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining successful operations of an assigned area, department, or shift of the warehouse/distribution center. It ensures that the department has adequate staffing, proper training, the needed tools and resources, standards of productivity, safety and sanitation, proper procedures of selecting/staging/receiving/loading, and quality that will meet customer/agency demands for accurate, quality, on-time deliveries.
Schedule: 5am – 1:30pm
Specific Departmental Duties
Department: Warehouse Staging & AM Operations – This role ensures the timely staging, organization, and verification of daily outbound & source orders. Also, this individual will coordinate the loading/unloading of transfers, yard organization, and any early morning driver/Transportation needs. All coaching and accountability for this team will be expected to be developed and monitored by this supervisor.
Essential Functions
- Direct and motivate teammates
- Communicate company and department information to teammates
- Listen, address, and follow-up to teammate concerns, questions, and problems
- Facilitate communication within warehouse leadership, and between warehouse leadership team and teammates.
- Understand Warehouse goals and standards, implement department procedures to meet those standards and promote them to gain buy-in and positive results from teammates. Standards may include, but are not limited to productivity, order quality, waste, shrink, safety, sanitation, turnover, and overtime.
- Ensure department and warehouse procedures will cut unnecessary costs, add value to agencies, and improve morale and the work environment for teammates.
- Monitors and controls the discarding of all waste, factoring in the possible use of food for other purposes.
- Ensure the work environment is maintained in a clean and safe manner following government and company food safety regulations.
- Supervise and manage daily work of department teammates
- Maintain all departmental paperwork and reports
- Create and maintain schedules and job assignments of department teammates
- Provide training as needed to maintain an efficient and knowledgeable workforce.
- Enforce all Warehouse policies and issue coaching/corrective action as needed
- Ensure adherence to proper operational and safety procedures
- Comply with company work and safety rules
- Be a visible and vocal advocate for safety
- Be trained to and certified to operate any required equipment within 30 days of hire
- Relieve other supervisors during their vacations
- Maintain a flexible work schedule to meet the changing needs of the Warehouse; work schedules may require working an early shift, staying long for a late shift, and weekend work depending on the Agency and operational requirements of the Warehouse
- Work in warm and cold temperature conditions that may range from -10 F to 110 F.
- Periodically stand, walk, bend, stoop, push, pull, grasp, and reach above the head as needed
- Assists in any other duties as assigned.
Scope and Complexity
May interact with all levels of leadership, employees, agency representatives, community neighbors, volunteers, external vendors, and clients.
Physical Demands/Environment Factors
- Requires extensive sitting with periodic standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting and carrying food boxes weighing up to 60 lbs. occasionally throughout a shift,
- Stand, walk, push, pull, squat, bend, and reach during shifts,
- Work at a height of up to 40 ft on a mezzanine (where applicable)
- Able to tolerate loud noises in the warehouse setting
- Requires significant use of personal computer, phone and general office equipment.
- Needs ability to communicate effectively through reading, writing, and speaking in person or on telephone.
- May require off-site travel
- High School Diploma: Associates degree or minimum five years work-related experience.
- Minimum of three years demonstrated and successful warehouse supervisory
- Proficiency in using Microsoft Office software, as well as warehouse management system computer experience
- Demonstrate the ability to lead by example
- Have experience leading large groups of warehouse staff with experience in hiring, training, motivating, and resolving employee relations issues
- Forklift certified
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to multi-task.
- High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivates employees
- Basic knowledge of math; add, subtract, multiply, divide.
- Have the ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and teammates
- Have the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently and make quick decisions.
- Excellent planning and organization skills.
- Proficiency with receiving, order selection and shipping procedures.
- Must be able to lift 50 LBS or over.
- Competitive Compensation Package:
- Competitive starting starting at $62,000/year, including:
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a generous employer match
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Tuition Assistance
- Comprehensive Benefits:
- Medical and Insurance Coverage
- An employee-only medical plan at no cost to you
- 4 low-cost employee-only, spouse and/or family member medical plans
- Vision and Dental coverage
- Health Savings Account generously funded by the employer and Flexible Spending Account options
- Short- and Long-Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death & Accident Insurance at no cost to you.
- Employee Assistance and Wellness Programs
- Optional Pet Insurance and Legal Shield Identity Theft offering
- Time Off
- 15 PTO days, accrued bi-weekly, that increases with length of service
- 40 hours of Personal/Sick time
- 8 Company Paid Holidays
Qualified candidates are invited to submit their resume to: https://jobs.firstfoodbank.org/
St. Mary’s Food Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other protected status under all applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
Salary : $62,000
