Warehouse Manager

Headquartered in Modesto, CA, G3 Enterprises has been supplying the wine and spirits industry for over 50 years. As a single source packaging solution, its products and services include labels, stock and custom closures, warehousing, transportation, bottle etching, and mobile bottling.

SUMMARY
The Warehouse Manager provides direction for warehousing functions of the Woodridge, IL Warehouse campus including safety, inventory control, and shipping/receiving. Ensures efficient operations and cost-effective manufacturing. Ensures productivity targets are meeting internal and external customer requirements and expectations. Initiates, defines, coordinates and enforces various operational programs and personnel policies and procedures.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Manages warehousing functions including the shipping/receiving and storage of raw materials and finished goods, in addition to special projects and activities under the warehouse operations scope of responsibility.
• Oversees stock control and the processing of all order types, tasks and system transactions.
• Produces regular reports and statistics on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Maximizes quality by reducing variability throughout our operations. Makes recommendations based on the analysis of various data provided.
• Continuously improves and achieves or surpasses budget results with respect to safety, waste, efficiencies, speed, quality, downtime, cost, and other performance measures.
• Participates in financial planning and preparing of the annual budget. Tracks expenditures and variances and reports on them.
• Defines, manages and establishes cost models and other performance measures.
• Develops and maintains cost and work saving measures and standard procedures through directing manufacturing operations according to company standards for quality and production output per hour.
• Communicates on a regular basis through plant-wide communication meetings as well as departmental, staff and other meetings.
• Arranges for customer visits to monitor the quality of service levels.
• Directs daily production and staffing plans to achieve the needs of the schedule and meet customer requirements.
• Responds to customer related issues, opportunities and builds strong relationships.
• Works with various cross divisional teams for planning future warehouse and campus capacity requirements.
• Works with Human Resources in organizing the recruitment, hiring and onboarding staff.
• Ensures employee conformance to established best practices and proper training of staff, including performance coaching and development.
• Develops and approves recommendations to change systems, policies and procedures; ensure timely and accurate implementation.
• Makes recommendations to senior management on long range labor and capacity needs.
• Oversees and handles projects that have short to long term focus.
• Creates and gives presentations for various audiences of varying levels.
• Facilitates corrective action follow-ups.
• Facilitates and follows-up on strategic objectives to successful completion in appropriate process areas.
• Observes recycling guidelines and limits waste of materials and supplies.
• Creates and monitors goals, objectives and timelines and achievement of them.
• Responsible for understanding and complying with applicable quality, labor, environmental and safety regulatory considerations. If accountable for the work of others, responsible for ensuring their understanding and compliance.
• This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate.
• Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of warehouse management experience to include supervisory or managerial experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; or 9 years of warehouse management experience to include supervisory or managerial experience reflecting increasing levels of repsponsibility.
• Required to lift and move up to 25 lbs.
• Good written and oral skills.
• Intermediate skill in the use of business software (Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook).
• Demonstrated experience in establishing, and operating within, cross-functional teams as well as the ability to significantly integrate within corporate and customer organizations.
• Required to lift and move up to 25 pounds

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree plus 8 years of warehouse management experience to include supervisory or managerial experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Skilled in communicating a compelling vision of the future.
• Experience with prodcution management or work order systems.
• Bilingual Spanish.
• Excellent teamwork skills.
• Experience working with all levels and functions within the Company.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

EEO/AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: One location