Job Details
We are looking to add a dedicated and experienced Operations Logistics Manager to their ground team to lead and oversee all facets of their warehouse operations at the company s headquarters in Essex County.
The ideal candidate will offer 5+ years of previous management experience in a warehouse setting, and possess strong leadership skills, with a high degree of process and detail orientation.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead daily meetings with staff
- Manage all aspects of warehouse staffing, including recruiting, scheduling, and timekeeping
- Responsible for ensuring safety training procedures and protocols, provide regular guidance and oversight to staff
- Ensure warehouse is OSHA compliant; maintain appropriate documentation of workplace incidents and OSHA-related documentation
- Responsible for quality control processes and accuracy of shipments
- Perform inventory checks using inventory management software
- Regularly communicate with dispatchers
- Work in internal departments to ensure customer orders are accurately relayed to staff and fulfilled in a timely manner
- Consistently lead by example by exuding responsible behavior; build and maintain a team of high performing warehouse associates
- Emphasize and lead trainings to warehouse staff
Qualifications
- 5+ years previous management or assistant management experience in a warehouse setting
- Bachelor s Degree in business administration, supply chain, logistics, or similar field strongly preferred
- Extensive experience with LTL and FTL shipments
- Experience with operational, process, and performance improvement projects (lean or six sigma experience highly valued)
- Strong communication and listening skills
- General office knowledge, including telephone and computer skills, to perform in a customer service environment
- Extensive experience using Microsoft Office applications, including MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, and MS PowerPoint
- Demonstrated leadership in building a culture of Continuous Improvement for process and operations
- Proven ability as a passionate people-centric leader who can effectively drive results in a fast-paced and rapidly growing company
- Extremely organized, meticulous and detailed oriented
- Strong analytical ability necessary to gather and interpret data to further develop, recommend and implement solutions
- Experience using warehouse management software and an inventory barcoding system
- Must demonstrate responsible work habits and satisfy pre-employment requirements, including a background check and drug test
- OSHA Forklift Certification License a plus
Physical Demands
Position requires work in a general warehouse setting, including standing, lifting with arms and hands, pushing or pulling, walking, exchanging ideas or providing instructions, visual ability to prepare and analyze data and figures, view a computer terminal, and operate both general office equipment and warehouse equipment
- Exert or lift up to 50 pounds on a regular basis; request assistance for anything exceeding this weight
- Warehouse environment with exposure to various temperatures, noises, and warehouse hazards