Warehouse Operations Manager

About the Company
Bentley Meeker Lighting & Staging, Inc. was founded in 1990 with the mission to create the best lighting & audio visual environments on the market today. Our commitment to excellent design and top-quality execution remains what it was at the beginning. We take pride in producing the very best in event lighting & audio visual, from the intimate to the extraordinary.
About the Role
Collaborate on efficient spatial management of floors of shop. Maintain an index of where items live within the shop. Ensure inspection of Subrentals on receipt and return, verifying components present. Provide off hours supervision of shop teams when needed. Make sure a clean working environment is maintained and clean up time is given daily. Ensuring processes are established and adhered to for quality control of equipment. Furnish plans, communication, and quotes for gear needing repair. Keep an eye on stock levels and identify frequent shortages to management. Inform gear purchase decisions. Staffing the shop to ensure quality execution of inventory movements. Determining trucking, loading, and unloading times. Maintaining an online schedule of all trucking, loading, and unloading times – informing shop managers when changes are made. Managing all late returns within inventory tracking system. Ensuring Inventories are completed in timely fashions. Scheduling crews for shops in conjunction with managers and Operations team. Maintaining an online calendar of shop crew scheduled. Maintaining a daily list of actions to be completed during shop calls. Ensuring labor is secured to execute operationally mandated projects. Ensuring damage to trucks is logged daily. Ensuring trucks are fixed, inspected, and registered in a timely manner. Ensuring missing gear reports are sent, responded to and when gear is located at shop it is communicated to teams. When gear is not found retiring in a prompt fashion. Ensuring department leads are scheduled in a manner to provide support to shop managers. Other duties as necessary to shop operations.
Responsibilities
Keeping the warehouse team focused on constant improvement of the departments and being able to pivot and assist other departments during time sensitive tasks.The ability to multitask and work quickly and accurately is imperative to the operation as we often have multiple jobs to complete a day.Setting a good example for hard work and being proactive about solving problems.The candidate should expect to work weekends and odd hours to support live events.
Qualifications
2+ years of experience in lighting and audio visual design, production, and implementation.Experience managing teams of 5 or more.Experience troubleshooting and quickly solving problems that arise with gear conflicts or malfunctioning gear.Must be able to lift 50lb and work in an active warehouse.Ability to work in a team-oriented environment.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work with production managers and designers on their lighting needs.Project management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks and timelines.Experience in live events, theatre, or entertainment industry is a plus.Passion for live events, innovation, and a desire to learn and develop new skills.
Required Skills
Lighting and audio visual design.Team & warehouse management.Problem-solving.Physical ability to lift and work in a warehouse.Communication and interpersonal skills.Project management.
Preferred Skills
Experience in live events, theatre, or entertainment industry.Innovation and a desire to learn.