Warehouse Manager

Position Purpose:

Manage branch warehouse area, increasing operational efficiency, helping branch profitability and customer satisfaction by accurately and safely processing incoming shipments and ensuring safe warehouse operations. Coach receiving staff and manage day-to-day operations.

Essential Functions:

• Upholds highest safety standards as outlined in the P&H Safety Action Plan.
• Understands inventory management systems, cycle counts, inventory management, costs.
• Prioritize warehouse layout to maximize efficiency of operation, demonstrate product knowledge and applications.
• Monitors purchase orders and transfers to ensure that they are received in a timely manner through approved P&H standard operating procedures.
• Ensures products are put away timely and accurately using barcode guns and rotating inventory.
• Ensures receiving area is organized, clear and clean after put-away.
• Assists the Branch Manager in researching inventory discrepancies and the completion of cycle counts.
• Attentive to the edit phantom stock transfer list and ensures the No Location screen is cleared daily.
• Assists the Branch Manager in handling products that need to be returned to stock, Hartford or vendors for processing (RTV).
• Moves and lifts heavy objects from one location to another.
• Loads and unloads trucks, ensuring that products and orders are placed on the correct trucks for delivery.
• Operates fork trucks and/or platform lifts in order to safely and effectively move product within the warehouse.
• Recognize team achievements and encourage excellence in the work environment
• Effectively supervise shipping function of branch to meet goals
• Evaluate employee performance and provide feedback and coaching as needed, identify training needs.
• Interact with customers on a regular basis to ensure satisfaction and gain useful feedback
• Resolve shipping problems as needed
• Locate areas of improvement and propose corrective actions that meet challenges and leverage growth opportunities
• Maintain operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures
• Other duties as required

Experience, Education & Skills:

• Three to five years shipping experience
• Result driven and customer focused
• Ability to supervise employees, while multitasking large projects
• High school diploma or GED required, supervisory experience required.

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
• Medium work. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.