Warehouse Supervisor

Job Description

Position Summary

The Warehouse Supervisor is responsible for the day-to-day leadership and execution of warehouse operations supporting Pelzer Plant 1. This position provides direct frontline supervision of warehouse associates and ensures the safe, accurate, and timely receiving, storage, picking, staging, movement, and delivery of material required to support production.

The Warehouse Supervisor will play a critical role in maintaining inventory accuracy, material availability, transactional discipline, and effective material flow throughout the plant. The position requires a hands-on leader who can manage daily operational priorities while maintaining strong standards around safety, quality, productivity, accountability, and inventory control.

The successful candidate must be comfortable operating in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with changing production priorities and will work closely with Materials, Planning, Production, Procurement, Quality, Logistics, and other cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide daily leadership and direction to warehouse associates supporting P1 operations.
• Coordinate manpower and workload across receiving, put-away, replenishment, production picking, staging, material movement, and other warehouse activities.
• Ensure production requirements are picked, staged, and delivered accurately and on time in support of the manufacturing schedule.
• Maintain strong communication with Production and Planning teams regarding shortages, material availability, priority changes, and potential production constraints.
• Ensure all physical material movements are accurately and timely transacted within Oracle.
• Maintain inventory integrity through strong location control, transaction discipline, cycle counting, reconciliation, and investigation of inventory discrepancies.
• Support root-cause analysis and corrective actions for inventory variances, transaction failures, picking errors, and material shortages.
• Monitor receiving and put-away activities to ensure material is processed efficiently and available for production.
• Ensure material is properly identified, labeled, stored, and controlled throughout the warehouse and production-support areas.
• Establish clear daily priorities and communicate expectations through shift-start meetings, Tier meetings, and regular floor engagement.
• Monitor employee productivity and operational performance and take corrective action when expectations are not being achieved.
• Manage employee attendance, work assignments, training, performance, and adherence to company policies and procedures.
• Develop and cross-train employees to improve workforce flexibility and provide appropriate coverage across warehouse functions.
• Maintain a strong leadership presence on the warehouse floor and proactively identify operational constraints before they impact production.
• Enforce all EHS requirements, including safe forklift operation, pedestrian safety, dock safety, material stacking, housekeeping, and PPE requirements.
• Participate in incident investigations and ensure corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
• Support cycle count activities, physical inventory preparation, annual Physical Inventory, and inventory audits.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, material flow, inventory accuracy, productivity, space utilization, and reduction of non-value-added activity.
• Support implementation and adherence to standard work and warehouse SOPs.
• Track and communicate warehouse performance, operational risks, shortages, and required corrective actions to warehouse and materials leadership.
• Partner with other Pelzer warehouse and plant leadership as required to support overall campus priorities.
• Perform additional duties as required to support Materials and Warehouse Operations.

Leadership Expectations

The Warehouse Supervisor is expected to be a visible, hands-on leader who establishes clear expectations and holds the team accountable for execution.

The individual must promote a culture where safety, inventory accuracy, transactional discipline, and production support are shared responsibilities . Issues should be identified early, escalated appropriately, and driven through resolution rather than transferred between departments.

The Supervisor is expected to develop employees, reinforce standard processes, challenge poor practices, and continuously look for opportunities to improve warehouse performance.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of warehouse, distribution, logistics, materials, or manufacturing experience.
• Previous supervisory, team-lead, or frontline leadership experience preferred.
• Experience working within a manufacturing or production-support warehouse environment strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of receiving, inventory control, material handling, picking, staging, replenishment, and warehouse operations.
• Experience working with ERP/WMS systems; Oracle experience preferred .
• Strong understanding of inventory transactions and the relationship between physical material movement and system inventory.
• Demonstrated ability to lead hourly employees in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to prioritize multiple operational requirements and respond effectively to changing production demands.
• Ability to investigate problems, determine root cause, and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Outlook, and Teams.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including overtime and weekends, based on production and business requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous leadership experience within a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting production lines or complex manufacturing operations.
• Experience with Oracle ERP inventory and warehouse transactions.
• Experience with cycle counting, physical inventory, inventory reconciliation, and inventory-audit processes.
• Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Continuous Improvement, or similar operational excellence experience.
• Forklift/material-handling equipment experience and knowledge of associated safety requirements.

Key Performance Areas

Performance in this role will be measured through areas including:

• Safety performance
• Inventory accuracy
• Production-picking performance
• On-time material delivery to production
• Receiving and put-away performance
• Transaction accuracy and timeliness
• Cycle count performance
• Material shortage response
• Employee productivity and accountability
• Warehouse organization and 5S
• Adherence to standard work and established processes
• Continuous improvement execution

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work in an active warehouse and manufacturing environment.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods throughout the shift.
• Ability to safely work around forklifts, material-handling equipment, production equipment, and loading docks.
• Ability to lift and handle materials within established company safety requirements.
• Ability to work in varying warehouse and manufacturing environmental conditions.

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS : Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

High-Performance Culture Customer Focus

Operational Excellence

Innovation

Financial Strength

VERTIV BEHAVIORS

• Own it
• Act with urgency
• Foster a customer-first mindset
• Think big and execute
• Lead by example
• Drive continuous improvement
• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers' vital applications to run continuously perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today's data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Job Info

• Job Identification 20284302
• Job Category Warehousing
• Posting Date 10/20/2026, 07:57 PM
• Locations Pelzer, SC, United States

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