Director, Warehousing Operations

Director Of Warehousing Operations

Pay Range: $155,000-$165,000 annually

Job Purpose: Reporting directly to the VP-Warehousing, the Director of Warehousing Operations oversees operations at the RJW Warehouses and ensures that all incoming and outgoing inventory is processed according to schedule. Directly responsible for the overall leadership and day-to-day operation of multiple warehouse facilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Providing strategic direction and hands-on leadership in all aspects of logistics, inventory management, and customer service
• Accountable for the development and achievement of monthly, annual, and long-term strategic plans as well as operational improvement initiatives related to the cost, efficiency, quality, safety.
• Collaborate with department leaders and their respective teams to achieve cost, quality, inventory measures, safety, customer satisfaction and people development objectives
• Manage, coach, and develop direct reports and their respective teams to achieve work objectives and improve performance and skills
• Oversees the operations of the warehouses. Includes compliance with OSHA, safety, workers compensation, and other regulations to ensure a safe and productive work environment
• Determine standards, KPI's, production goals, and processes based on company policies, and workloads, confer with other management or subordinates to resolve problems, complaints, or issues
• Provide input on annual cost budgets and performance goals.
• Ensure compliance with all health, safety, environmental and regulatory policies and permits
• Promote effective policies in recruitment, retention, and training

Qualifications:

• Must be able to communicate, read, write, and speak English.
• Experience in multi-state warehouse acquisitions planning
• Outstanding track record of managing operations and delivering results through developing significant improvements in costs and transport
• Strong interpersonal skills that foster the development of an efficient and cohesive operations group, with the ability to organize and develop the talent of direct reports
• Substantial experience in lean process development, inventory control, logistics, and distribution management
• Experience managing a team of operations professionals
• Minimum of 3 years' experience overseeing multiple warehouses

Education and Experience:

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience of direct involvement in warehousing, transportation, and/or logistics fields.
• Minimum of 10 years of industry-related experience including three years in upper management required.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to activate phone systems utilizing keyboards and buttons.
• Must be articulate and comfortable speaking in front of others.
• Regularly work in an indoor/office environment and required to sit and/or use repetitive hand motion.
• Frequently required to talk, hear, stand and walk.
• Must be able to work in excess of continuous 8 hours when required.
• Must be able to work under stressful situations, have good cognitive skills, maintain work accuracy, and the ability to concentrate on more than one task at a time.
• Must have the ability to read and discern visual images on a variety of media with 20/20 corrected vision.
• Must hear speech out of both ears in the normal range of 30db at 500 to 2000 Hz range.
• Must be able to speak and communicate clearly over telephones.
• Must be in sound physical health as determined by a certified licensed physician with no evidence of the use of controlled substances.

The preceding statements are illustrative of the functions of the job and RJW retains the right to modify or change the duties or essential functions of the job at any time.

As with all positions, the duties and responsibilities are subject to change at any time as needs arise and at the discretion of the RJW Logistics Group, Inc. The Company has the right to revise this job description at any time.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment will range from quiet to moderately loud.

This job description is intended to provide general information about the Director of Warehousing Operations position. The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of the job duties to be performed by an associate holding the position of Director of Warehousing Operations, nor are the lists of the physical requirements and environmental conditions exhaustive. You may be asked by your supervisor or managers to perform other duties. Your performance will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the job duties listed in this job description, as well as any job duties not specifically listed above that you may be asked from time to time to perform.

It is the Company's policy that all associates, other than those covered by a written individual employment or labor agreement with the Company that has been authorized in writing by the Company's Chief Executive Officer or Board of Directors, are not employed for any fixed term and are employed at the will of the Company for an indefinite period. Just as our associate's, reserve the right to resign their employment at any time for any reason the Company reserves its right to terminate an associate any time for any reason either with or without cause.

Neither this Job Description nor any of its individual terms constitutes commitments between the Company and its associates as to the terms, conditions or duration of employment, nor does it modify the prevailing Employment-At-Will relationship.