Warehouse Manager

Kentucky Eagle is a family-built company delivering the best wine spirits and beer come hell or high water. Our team strives for excellence in everything we do. We are leaders in the industry and were proud of it.

Full-time employees have access to a menu of great benefits including medical dental vision health savings accounts LTD STD life insurance and a 401k plan with a match up to 6%. We also offer paid vacation paid sick paid volunteer time and paid parental leave.

Position Summary

Lead warehouse operations including receiving inventory control replenishment order picking load building staging and driver check-in. This role is responsible for safe accurate and efficient execution across people process inventory and technology including Kentucky Eagles RAPTOR automated order-fulfillment system.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead warehouse supervisors and employees; set clear priorities productivity standards and expectations across shifts.
• Coach and develop supervisors and support hiring onboarding training performance management discipline and termination decisions with Human Resources and Operations leadership.
• Plan staffing and work assignments based on order volume inventory flow automation needs service requirements and available labor.
• Monitor safety attendance productivity order accuracy breakage out-of-stocks overtime inventory adjustments and completion of daily work.
• Maintain inventory-control and product-placement practices including replenishment aging inventory close-to-code and out-of-code product physical inventories cycle counts and reconciliation.
• Manage driver check-in including proper coding of returns and breakage error tickets when needed and timely account-level resolution.
• Coordinate with Sales Delivery Purchasing IT Facilities Maintenance and other departments to resolve issues affecting product availability service or warehouse flow.
• Lead warehouse meetings and shift communication; identify process constraints and implement practical improvements using operating data and direct observation.
• Ensure compliance with company safety requirements for powered industrial trucks conveyors and automated equipment dock activity PPE machine guarding and incident reporting.
• Exemplify Kentucky Eagles core values and hold the team accountable for safe respectful and results-oriented behavior.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

RAPTOR and Warehouse Automation

• Own the day-to-day operational integration of RAPTOR with layer picking conventional case picking replenishment pallet staging top-off picking and completed-pallet movement.
• Coordinate work between VIP Opto RAPTOR equipment forklift operators and downstream warehouse processes; escalate system or equipment issues to the appropriate support resources.
• Ensure supervisors and designated operators follow standard work for replenishment pallet movement exception handling and safe operation of the automated system.
• Maintain SOPs training shift checklists escalation procedures and contingency plans for automation downtime or reduced performance.
• Monitor automation performance including throughput uptime replenishment readiness exceptions order completion labor utilization safety and accuracy.
• Use operating data to recommend changes to SKU placement staffing layout equipment utilization replenishment timing and the balance between automated and manual work.

Minimum Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Bachelors degree preferred; equivalent relevant leadership experience may be considered.
• 2 or more years experience leading and supervisors hourly employees in a high-volume warehouse or distribution-center operation.
• Strong knowledge of inventory management replenishment order fulfillment load building and warehouse controls.
• Experience with warehouse automation WMS/WES technology conveyors robotics or automated material-handling systems strongly preferred.
• Ability to analyze operational data and turn findings into staffing process layout or training actions.
• Advanced Excel skills and working proficiency with PowerPoint and reporting/database tools.
• Working knowledge of labor planning overtime control productivity measurement and basic cost-accounting principles.
• Excellent communication problem-solving and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ability to learn Kentucky Eagle systems including VIP Beverage on the Web and automation-related applications.

Schedule and Working Conditions

Core hours are generally 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday with flexibility to support other shifts peak periods troubleshooting and a Saturday rotation when needed. Work is primarily performed in a warehouse environment around powered industrial trucks conveyors automated equipment loading docks and active order-fulfillment operations. Appropriate PPE and established safety procedures are required.

Position Description Notice

The duties and responsibilities above are considered essential job functions for which reasonable accommodation will be made. This position description is not an exhaustive statement of all duties responsibilities or requirements. Employees may be required to perform other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor subject to reasonable accommodation.

Kentucky Eagle was built on teamwork and equal opportunity. We will continue to be successful when people are treated fairly and allowed to advance and achieve their full potential. It is the policy of Kentucky Eagle to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race color religion gender age national origin sexual orientation citizenship status veteran status disability pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance with your application contact and ask for a member of the People Operations team.

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Manager