Warehouse Manager

The Warehouse Manager is responsible for the safe, efficient, and accurate operation of warehouse activities within a food manufacturing facility. This position leads receiving, storage, inventory control, material movement, and shipping activities to support production and customer service requirements while maintaining food safety, quality, regulatory, and workplace safety standards. The Warehouse Manager develops the warehouse team, manages labor and resources, drives inventory accuracy and operational performance, and partners cross-functionally to ensure reliable material flow throughout the facility. Duties and Responsibilities Lead day-to-day warehouse operations, including receiving, unloading, inspection, put-away, storage, replenishment, staging, material movement, order picking, loading, and shipment of raw materials, packaging, ingredients, supplies, and finished goods. Ensure materials and finished goods are stored, handled, rotated, and shipped in accordance with company requirements, product specifications, lot controls, FIFO/FEFO practices, and applicable temperature or storage requirements. Maintain high levels of inventory accuracy through disciplined transaction practices, cycle counting, physical inventories, reconciliation, root-cause analysis, and corrective action. Ensure accurate and timely system transactions in the applicable ERP, warehouse management, or inventory systems, including receipts, transfers, production-related material movements, adjustments, holds, and shipments. Coordinate warehouse activities with Production, Planning, Quality, Customer Service, Maintenance, and other functions to support production schedules and customer commitments. Develop daily and weekly labor plans, assign work, balance priorities, and adjust staffing and equipment resources to meet changing production and shipping requirements. Establish and monitor warehouse performance indicators such as safety, inventory accuracy, service, productivity, labor utilization, dock performance, damages, and on-time shipping; implement actions to address performance gaps. Maintain effective dock, trailer, yard, and carrier coordination practices, as applicable, to support safe and efficient inbound and outbound traffic flow. Manage relationships and daily execution with carriers, third-party warehouses, or other logistics service providers when used by the facility. Ensure compliance with company food safety and quality programs, including GMPs, sanitation, allergen controls, foreign-material prevention, traceability, product hold procedures, pest-control requirements, and applicable audit standards. Maintain warehouse areas in a clean, organized, inspection-ready condition and ensure storage locations, aisles, racks, docks, and staging areas are used in accordance with established standards. Promote and enforce safe work practices, including powered industrial truck requirements, pedestrian safety, dock safety, trailer restraint/chocking procedures, rack safety, lifting practices, and use of required personal protective equipment. Partner with EHS, Quality, and Maintenance to investigate incidents, product damage, inventory discrepancies, equipment issues, or process failures and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions. Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities related to layout, material flow, slotting, space utilization, labor productivity, inventory control, technology, and standard work. Maintain warehouse procedures, training materials, records, and documentation necessary to support consistent execution, regulatory compliance, audits, and business continuity. Participate in capital planning and operating expense management for warehouse equipment, racking, material-handling resources, technology, and other assigned cost areas. Support new product, packaging, process, system, or facility changes that affect warehouse capacity, storage requirements, material flow, or shipping execution. Ability to work a schedule that supports facility operations, including early mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, or off-shift coverage as business needs require. Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned to support facility and business needs. Minimum Job Requirements Education/Certifications and Experience Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Operations, or a related field preferred. An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered in lieu of the preferred degree. Typically requires five (5) or more years of progressive warehouse, distribution, logistics, or inventory-control experience, including at least three (3) years of leadership or supervisory experience. Experience in food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, or another regulated manufacturing environment strongly preferred. Experience with ERP and/or warehouse management systems required; SAP experience preferred where applicable. Powered industrial truck or ot #J-18808-Ljbffr