Warehouse Supervisor

Location(s): Canada

City/Cities: Peterborough

Travel Required: 00% - 25%

Relocation Provided: No

Job Posting End Date: December 24, 2024

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Job Description Summary:

As a Warehouse Supervisor (Manager, Supply Chain-Warehousing, Distribution & Logistics), you’ll lead a team of hourly associates and salaried consultants in the execution of all shipping and receipts of our beverage throughout North America. This role supports 24/7 operations from a warehousing perspective to ensure customer orders are fulfilled, materials are received on time, and warehouse storage is managed efficiently to ensure smooth operations.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Review customer orders at the warehouse, streamline the process, gain efficiency, and provide feedback to the parties responsible for placing the orders, transportation, QA, and other internal/external stakeholders.
• Ensure on-time shipping of customer orders to prevent stockouts.
• Direct, lead, and distribute work to associates to drive business results and set accountability.
• Regularly conduct inspections and internal audits of facility areas to ensure the plant is always audit-ready.
• Manage plant or warehouse metrics (e.g., breakage, yields, product obsolescence) using historical data, current information, and metrics targets to minimize costs.
• Ensure compliance with KPIs - performance metrics relating to quality, service, efficiency, cost, and delivery to specifications to the company’s requirements.
• Learn and improve warehousing procedures/processes within the Logistics Program to improve operational effectiveness and compliance.
• Lead process optimization and operational excellence projects, eliminate barriers, and conduct root cause analysis.
• Create department schedules, vacation tracker, execute time & attendance records, monitoring, and manage overtime.
• Review associates’ performance, ensure work expectations are communicated, and provide coaching, support, and training required to meet job expectations.
• Execute and improve current Inventory Control activities by ensuring that all related tasks are performed to meet company and external requirements.
• Ensure compliance with QA and shipping procedures in handling packaging materials, ingredients, finished product, shipments, paperwork, and general freight movement into and out of the warehouse.
• Lead the execution of inventory control procedures and routines (e.g., cycle counting) for ingredients, packaging, damages, and finished product.
• Ensure compliance with the Company and Plant policies concerning traffic procedures, security, KPI reports, and applicable regulatory and industry regulations concerning freight shipments.
• Ensure GMP checks are completed, drive improvement in the existing program, and set accountability for GMP routines, and other duties as required by the department managers.
• Ensure safe operations of the warehouse, compliance with warehouse safety programs, and ensure safety KPIs are reviewed with the team to maintain safe working conditions.
• Support 24/7 operations for plants to have warehouse space available to continue production activities and optimize utilization of outside storage.
• Ensure compliance with the company’s Environment, Health and Safety policies by supporting initiatives to drive site performance on EHS KPIs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of warehouse management experience, preferably with food plants.
• Highly desirable to have manufacturing experience, preferably in food plants.
• Experience managing workforce, schedules, budgets, time, and attendance records.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP or similar ERP systems.
• Strong knowledge of inventory management routines, processes, and industry practices.
• Ability to operate a manual/powered pallet jack or lift product.
• Forklift experience is an added advantage.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to read, write, speak, and comprehend English.
• Ability to work weekends, holidays, and different shifts if needed to support business needs.
• Ability to understand, record, and communicate material and product information.
• Strong experience with managing Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), safety, attendance, and rules of conduct guidelines.
• Adhere to all company policies and processes.

What We Can Do For You

• Purpose Driven: A purpose-driven approach that empowers our people to protect the environment and communities we serve while delivering safe & quality products.
• Global Connections: Allows you to develop, enhance, and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.
• Community of Belonging: We’re an organization that believes our ability to continually grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel safe and empowered, lets you bring your best self to work.

Additional Skills: SAP/ERP inventory management experience, Microsoft Office, leading cross-functional teams, Logistics Operations, Communication, Problem Solving, Mathematics, Detail-Oriented, Project Management, Warehouse Management, Logistics Management, People Management.

Skills: Communication, Cross-Functional Leadership, Detail-Oriented, ERP Management, Group Problem Solving, Logistics Management, Logistics Operations, Mathematics, Microsoft Office, People Management, SAP Inventory Management, Warehouse Management.

Pay Range: $90,000 - $96,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage: 15

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the