WAREHOUSE MANAGER

Overview

Warehouse Manager

Location: Ashley, Indiana

Annual Salary: $45,000 – $65,000 DOE

Status: Full Time, Salary/Exempt

JOB DETAILS

WPS is seeking an experienced Warehouse Manager to lead its regional distribution center in Ashley, Indiana. The Warehouse Manager plans, directs, and administers all aspects of distribution center activities, including requisitioning, receiving, storing, stocking, and shipping parts and materials.

This position oversees the enforcement of all warehouse procedures and practices, and will report to the Director of National Warehouse Operations. We are looking for candidates with highly developed leadership and management skills, resolute ethics of personal conduct and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of team members and personalities, including those with high levels of authority and scope.

Well-qualified individuals will have five plus years of experience in a distribution center leadership role, preferably general management. If you thrive as a leader in your field, excel at managing supply chain processes for maximum efficiently and enjoy finding solutions to varying challenges this is the opportunity to enhance your career!

Provides necessary leadership tools to maintain the following aspects in our distribution center:

• Maintains receiving, warehousing, and distribution operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing company operational and personnel policies and procedures.
• Complies with federal, state, and local warehousing, material handling, and shipping requirements by studying existing and new legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
• Safeguards warehouse operations and contents by establishing and monitoring security procedures and protocols.
• Controls inventory levels by conducting physical counts; reconciling with data storage system.
• Maintains physical condition of warehouse by planning and implementing new design layouts; inspecting equipment; issuing work orders for repair and requisitions for replacement.
• Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Develops and analyzes production and operating reports and resolves operational, staffing and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and to prevent operational delays.
• Completes warehouse operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
• Maintains warehouse staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training team members.
• Provides leadership for and coordinates all activities of the warehouse staff to receive and ship products effectively.
• Maintains warehouse staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining team members; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Manages the daily operational functions on all shifts, including planning the shipping/receiving flow, troubleshooting quality issues, handling staffing issues, monitoring customer orders and coordinating training to team members.
• Develops and revises standard operational and working practices and observes team members to ensure compliance.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Other duties as required.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Min 5 years managing a team in a manufacturing or distribution setting, required.
• Bachelor's degree or higher, preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with facility planning, analysis and layout of distribution and manufacturing operations.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of supply chain logistics processes, including demand planning, distribution requirements, planning, inventory management and control, transportation and logistics planning, and warehousing.
• Knowledge of current industry best practices in supply chain management to support process improvement.
• Ability to motivate, influence and encourage a diverse group of team members who have with varied skill levels and backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective business relationships across multiple functions.
• Working knowledge of how a business is run and variables that impact profitability.
• Working knowledge of effective inventory management and distribution practices.
• Personal commitment to safety.

COMPANY CULTURE

Love the great outdoors? Love being a part of a fast-paced, expanding community of passionate outdoor enthusiasts? Well we do too. So what is it we do here at WPS? We like to say “we sell fun.” As one of the fastest growing wholesale distributors of aftermarket powersports parts, apparel, and accessories we believe in working hard and playing harder. We sell fun products, delivering to a nationwide-network of dealers from six warehouse locations around the country. Beyond our enthusiasm for the powersports industry, WPS is committed to lives of its employees and provides a comprehensive package of benefits to promote personal growth, both in and out of the work place. Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and supplemental insurance; 401K and ROTH 401K; Vacation, Sick and Hospital paid time off, competitive pay and bonus structures; profit sharing; and an exciting work experience!

All offers for this position are contingent on satisfactory background screening and drug testing results.