Alternate Site Manager (Warehousing)

Job Description

Job Description

Kalman & Company is putting together a team for an anticipated Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Distribution opportunity. This position is contingent upon government contract award. The contract will support warehouse and distribution operations in a sustained, audit-ready environment, including receiving, storage, inventory, issue processing, packaging, transportation, equipment support, and related mission functions. This position is contingent upon contract award, final funding, Government acceptance of the candidate, and completion of all required security and access actions. The salary range starts at $71K/year and can go up to $150K/year depending on qualifications and level of experience.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Alternate Site Manager will support the Site Manager in directing contract performance and will have full authority to act for the company in the Site Manager’s absence. The position provides day-to-day leadership across workforce, workload, quality, reporting, and operational execution.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act for Kalman & Company on all contract-performance matters during the Site Manager’s absence.
• Support daily planning, supervision, and control of Distribution Center personnel and operations.
• Coach and mentor supervisors and team leads and ensure work is assigned and scheduled to make effective use of available personnel, equipment, facilities, and materials.
• Monitor workload, staffing, operational priorities, quality results, and contract performance; redirect resources to address unanticipated work and daily fluctuations.
• Ensure accurate and timely reports, records, and performance information are prepared and submitted.
• Promote compliance with DLA Distribution SOPs, audit-readiness controls, the Quality Control Plan, safety requirements, security requirements, and customer-service standards.
• Identify and correct inefficient or wasteful practices and implement cost-saving and quality-control measures.
• Support continuity, surge, emergency, and alternate-shift operations as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• At least three years of experience in distribution management; OR at least seven years of management experience in distribution operations comparable in size and complexity to the contemplated effort.
• At least two years of experience using automated warehouse management systems within the past five years.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, control, manage, and successfully complete warehouse and distribution work.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated supervisory experience in a performance-driven, regulated, or Government logistics environment.
• US Citizenship is required.
• Must be eligible for access to a DoD installation and successfully complete the Government-required Moderate Risk Personnel Security Investigation and suitability process for a public trust or sensitive position.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Common Access Card (CAC), installation identification badge, PKI token, and controlled-area access, as applicable to assigned duties.
• Because the position is expected to use DLA WMS and other Government systems, must be eligible for minimum IT II access, including submission of required access forms and a favorably adjudicated T3 investigation, unless the Government approves an exception.
• Must safeguard classified information, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), proprietary information, Government systems, facilities, property, and mission data in accordance with DoD, DLA, CMMC, and local installation requirements.
• Must complete initial and recurring security training, including CUI, Antiterrorism/Force Protection, OPSEC, Counterintelligence, INFOSEC, and Combating Trafficking in Persons training.
• Must comply with visitor-control, key-and-lock-control, incident-reporting, suspicious-contact-reporting, and local force-protection procedures.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with DLA WMS and/or DSS, Federal logistics operations, internal controls, audit readiness, and operational performance management.
• Experience supporting incumbent-workforce transition, multi-shift operations, and emergency or continuity operations.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is performed primarily in warehouse, industrial, transportation, and administrative areas on a military installation. The employee must be able to move safely through operational areas, comply with personal protective equipment and local safety requirements, work around material-handling equipment and vehicle traffic, and maintain performance during changing access or force-protection conditions

KEY PERSONNEL AVAILABILITY REQUIREMENT

As designated Key Personnel, the employee must be available, upon notification, to meet Government personnel on-site within one hour during normal duty hours and within two hours outside normal duty hours, unless in an approved excused-absence status. The position may also require extended hours, alternate shifts, emergency response, continuity operations, holiday on-call support, and work during heightened force-protection conditions.