What are the responsibilities and job description for the Warehouse Supervisor position at Westlake?
Westlake offers you the potential to enrich your work life and career experience in an entrepreneurial environment. We work together to enhance peoples' lives through our products and presence in the communities in which we operate.
SUMMARY
Maintains inventory and supplies by receiving, storing, and delivering items; securing warehouse; supervising staff. Maintains a safe and productive work environment whereby team has clear direction, goals, training, and accountability.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Sets the tone and expectations for daily activities using strong leadership skills and proper utilization of shift group leaders. Works closely with customer service to align resources to demand.
- Accomplishes warehouse human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions; recommending compensation actions; adhering to policies and procedures.
- Meets warehouse operational standards by contributing warehouse information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; identifying warehouse system improvements.
- Moves inventory by scheduling materials to be moved to and from warehouse; coordinating inventory transfers with related departments.
- Order consumable items in a manner that prevents stock outs without carrying excess inventory.
- Maintains storage area by organizing floor space; adhering to storage design principles; recommending improvements.
- Maintains accurate inventory by conducting physical cycle counts; reconciling variances; inputting data.
- Secures warehouse and yard by turning alarms on; testing systems, monitoring cameras, enforcing policies.
- Keeps equipment operating well by enforcing proper operation, training, and implementing suitable Operator level PM’s, Supply detailed information on service requirements to maintenance; Tracking equipment uptime.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading technical publications.
- Accomplishes warehouse and organization mission by developing and tracking key KPI’s relative to productivity, Inventory accuracy, customer complaints and the like.
- Measure and report the effectiveness of warehousing activities and employee's performance
- Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction through excellence in receiving, identifying, dispatching, and assuring quality of goods / services.
- Ensure shipments’ and inventory transactions’ accuracy
- Clearly communicate job expectations and coach employees. Take disciplinary actions as needed.
- Determine staffing levels and assign workload
- Maintain items record, document necessary information, and utilize reports to project warehouse status
- Identify areas of improvement and establish innovative or adjust existing work procedures and practices
- Confer and coordinate activities with other departments or external resources such as plowing, pest control, pallet supplier and the like.
- Drive a safe work culture by ensuring completion of all safety training, auditing, and accountability.
- Able to certify as an operator for powered industrial trucks.
- Perform other duties as assigned by Management.
- Some travel required.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
Westlake is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable legislation.
If you are an active Westlake employee (or an employee of any Westlake affiliates), please do not apply here. You will apply via the Jobs Hub application in Workday.
