Job TitleSr. Manager - Logistical Operations
Job Description
Sr. Manager – Logistical Operations position:
Essential Functions (Job Duties and Responsibilities):
- Meets warehouse financial standards by monitoring operational best practices and maintaining efficiency.
- Uses and develops digital tooling to maintain accurate data of employee touches in the picking, palletizing, and shipping process.
- Build a complete plan to meet the inbound and outbound requirements needed to meet the needs of the projects
- Create KPIs per person and per process to accurately measure performance in real-time, develop Power BI dashboards to report out weekly, and provide solutions when deficiencies are discovered.
- Travel to project sites to understand difficulties from team in real-world scenario.
- Develop or update existing SOPs as the business develops, communicate to team, and ensure compliance.
- Meets safety goals by ensuring 100% compliance with company Safety Program.
- Delivers supplies, materials, and and equipment to projects by receiving and transferring items through the material request and scheduling process..
- Maintains assigned warehouse space area by organizing floor space; adhering to storage design principles; recommending improvements.
- Maintains inventory by conducting periodic physical counts; reconciling variances; inputting data, and controlling quality of daily shipments to each project.
- Ensure warehouse access is controlled in a safe and effective manner.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading technical publications.
- Accomplishes warehouse and organization mission by completing related results as needed by each project.
- Accomplishes warehouse human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counselling, 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 operational improvements.
- Moves inventory by scheduling materials to be moved to and from warehouse; coordinating inventory transfers with related departments.
- Keeps warehouse equipment operating by enforcing operating instructions; troubleshooting breakdowns; requiring preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.
- Directly responsible for hiring, leading, and managing a crew up to 40 employees
Required Education and Experience:
- 10+ years as a Sr. Manager in a warehouse or distribution environment.
- 10+ years in leading warehouse teams
- Bachelor degree in relative field
- Proficient in Quality Control Processes
- Proficient with all MS office programs
- Proficiency with WMS (Warehouse Management Systems)
- Experienced analyzing data and reporting
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge-Skills-Abilities (Competencies)
- Ability to work in a team; team player.
- Must have the ability to communicate verbally and in writing effectively
- Ability to adapt to different situations/Flexible
- Must have great customer service
- Ability to work independently
- Takes action in when no one else will
- Creative problem solver
- Safety Management
- Data Entry Management
- Time and Task Management
- Equipment Maintenance
- Organization
- Deadline-Oriented
- Dealing with Complexity
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position, Monday through Friday. Weekend and Holiday work will vary depending on business needs.
Travel:
Ability to travel on short notice to project sites
Supervisory Responsibility: Supervises warehouse employees.
Work Environment and Physical Demands:
The work environment/physical requirements described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market.
Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation.
Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
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