Warehouse Supervisor

Job Description

Job Description:\n\nPartner. Energize. Deliver.\nJoin our Central Region team as a Project Manager and become an employee of a nationally recognized Top Workplace! Guarantee Electrical Company has grown into one of the nation's foremost providers of electrical contracting services and systems solutions. This specific role would focus on supporting our Industrial team.\n \nWhy Work for Us?\nBenefits, Compensation, Community Involvement and Employee Appreciation\nGuarantee is 100% employee owned, making each member of the Guarantee team an essential partner in building our successful future. Guarantee offers a rewarding career path, a competitive salary, and excellent benefits package. This includes a fully company funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).\nWe offer exciting benefits with a competitive salary based on knowledge and experience. Employees are also eligible for annual discretionary bonuses. We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, accidental, critical illness, life and disability insurances, vacation/sick time, and a matching 401K plan.\nWe value giving back to our communities through community outreach and volunteering. Some of our favorites being Pedal the Cause, KIDstruction, Big Brothers Big Sisters and more!\n \nJOB SUMMARY\nThe Warehouse Manager leads receiving, inspection, storage, inventory control, material and tool fulfillment, staging, shipping, delivery coordination, asset management, fleet support, and warehouse workforce activities for the Manufacturing Department. This position ensures raw materials, manufactured assemblies, field-support kits, tools, equipment, and project materials are received accurately, stored securely, tracked reliably, staged correctly, and delivered safely and on schedule. The Warehouse Manager establishes standard work, maintains visibility of material readiness and logistics constraints, develops warehouse personnel, and partners with Manufacturing Operations, Purchasing, Project Management, Advanced Construction Planning, Quality, Environmental Health and Safety, and field teams to support predictable production and field execution.\n \nESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES\nWarehouse Operations and Material Flow\n• Plan, prioritize, and direct daily receiving, inspection, put-away, storage, replenishment, picking, kitting, staging,\npacking, shipping, returns, and material-transfer activities.\n• Maintain clear flow paths and defined locations for inbound material, quarantine, inspection, raw material, work in\nprocess, completed assemblies, outbound shipments, tools, equipment, and returns.\n• Coordinate warehouse priorities with manufacturing schedules, project need dates, field requirements, and facility\ncapacity.\n• Establish standard work, visual controls, location systems, labeling requirements, and handoff expectations that\nsupport safe and predictable flow.\n \nReceiving and Quality Verification\n• Verify inbound quantities, condition, packing lists, purchase-order information, certifications, and required\ndocumentation.\n• Document damage, shortages, overages, incorrect material, and receiving exceptions with photographs and timely\nnotifications.\n• Coordinate disposition of nonconforming, damaged, quarantined, returned, or warranty material with Purchasing,\nQuality, suppliers, and responsible project teams.\n• Prevent unverified or rejected material from entering available inventory or production flow.\n \nInventory Control and Material Readiness\n• Maintain accurate inventory records, location data, units of measure, min/max levels, reservations, transfers, cycle\ncounts, and physical inventory results.\n• Monitor raw-material, consumable, standard-stock, project-specific, and critical-item availability against manufacturing\nand project schedules.\n• Investigate inventory discrepancies, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.\n• Provide current material-readiness status and escalate shortages, excess, slow-moving stock, obsolete material, or\nspace constraints early.\n \nShipping, Logistics, and Delivery Coordination\n• Develop and maintain outbound shipment and delivery schedules with Purchasing, Manufacturing, project teams, field\nleadership, and drivers.\n• Verify outbound loads are complete, accurate, documented, labeled, protected, sequenced, secured, and ready for\ndelivery.\n• Coordinate carrier selection, special handling, delivery appointments, site access, lifting or unloading requirements,\nand proof of delivery.\n• Manage delivery exceptions, returns, undelivered items, damaged shipments, and corrective action.\n \nTool, Equipment, Asset, and Fleet Support\n• Manage receiving, inspection, storage, issue, return, tracking, readiness, repair coordination, calibration or certification\nstatus, and security of warehouse-controlled tools, equipment, and assets.\n• Enforce approved Remarcable or company asset-tracking processes for requests, check-out, transfers, status, and\nreturns.\n• Coordinate maintenance and repair of damaged or unreliable tools and equipment.\n• Support fleet readiness, vehicle records, maintenance scheduling, inspection follow-up, and coordination with\nresponsible Purchasing or Operations personnel.\n \nTeam Leadership and Workforce Development\n• Lead, schedule, train, coach, and develop warehouse associates, receiving and shipping personnel, drivers, apprentices,\nand assigned support staff.\n• Set daily expectations, verify understanding, monitor execution, provide respectful feedback, and reinforce\naccountability for safety, quality, accuracy, productivity, and service.\n• Support employee reviews, documented development plans, onboarding, cross-training, succession planning, and\nidentification of staffing or skill gaps.\n• Maintain appropriate warehouse coverage while balancing receiving, fulfillment, staging, shipping, delivery, and\noperational-support needs.\n \nSafety, Compliance, and Facility Standards\n• Partner with Environmental Health and Safety personnel to maintain safe material handling, equipment operation,\nstorage, racking, traffic flow, loading, unloading, and emergency access.\n• Enforce PPE, forklift and powered-industrial-truck authorization, load limits, safe lifting, dock safety, vehicle and\npedestrian separation, incident reporting, and stop-work expectations.\n• Maintain clean, organized, secure, and hazard-free warehouse, staging, yard, loading, and support areas through 5S\nand daily housekeeping routines.\n• Maintain required training, inspection, certification, inventory, quality, and operational records.\n \nCost Control, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement\n• Track and report warehouse performance, labor utilization, inventory accuracy, delivery performance, material\nreadiness, damage, shortages, freight, and operating costs.\n• Support budget development and control for warehouse labor, supplies, storage, material-handling equipment, freight,\nfleet support, and facility needs.\n• Lead or participate in Kaizen events, root-cause analysis, lessons learned, Plan-Do-Check-Adjust cycles, and correctiveaction follow-up.\n• Improve layout, space utilization, point-of-use storage, replenishment, pull systems, transaction time, handling, and\nflow while protecting safety and quality.\n \nKEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS\nReceiving and Inventory Performance\n• Receiving accuracy and receiving turnaround time.\n• Inventory-record accuracy and cycle-count variance.\n• Material damage, receiving discrepancy, and nonconformance rate.\n• Stockout frequency and raw-material availability for scheduled production.\n \nFulfillment, Shipping, and Delivery Performance\n• Picking, kitting, staging, and shipment accuracy.\n• On-time staging, shipment, and delivery rate.\n• Proof-of-delivery and shipping-document completion.\n• Return, shortage, overage, and delivery-exception resolution time.\n \nAsset, Equipment, and Fleet Readiness\n• Tool and equipment tracking accuracy.\n• Repair, calibration, certification, and preventive-maintenance completion.\n• Warehouse equipment and vehicle availability.\n• Lost, overdue, damaged, or unaccounted-for asset rate.\n \nSafety, People, Cost, and Improvement\n• Recordable, near-miss, property-damage, and material-handling incident performance.\n• Required training and equipment-authorization completion.\n• 5S and warehouse audit score.\n• Warehouse operating-cost and freight variance.\n• Cross-training coverage and employee-development action completion.\n• Verified improvements in flow, space utilization, handling, or transaction time.\n \nDAILY RESPONSIBILITIES\nWarehouse Planning and Workforce Direction\n• Review inbound deliveries, manufacturing priorities, project requests, material status, outbound shipments, delivery\ncommitments, labor coverage, and equipment availability.\n• Conduct a daily huddle covering safety, workload, assignments, quality expectations, constraints, and required\nhandoffs.\n• Assign work and adjust labor based on changing priorities, receiving volume, production needs, urgent requests, and\ndelivery schedules.\n \nReceiving, Inventory, and Fulfillment Control\n• Review receiving exceptions, damaged material, shortages, quarantined items, backorders, and required follow-up.\n• Verify near-term manufacturing and project material is received, located, picked, staged, and ready when required.\n• Monitor inventory transactions, location accuracy, tool and equipment movement, and Remarcable compliance.\n• Inspect warehouse, staging, loading, yard, and outbound areas for accuracy, flow, organization, and security.\n \nShipping, Delivery, and Communication\n• Confirm outbound materials, assemblies, kits, tools, equipment, documents, labels, packaging, and delivery instructions\nare complete.\n• Coordinate drivers, carriers, routes, loading sequence, delivery appointments, and site requirements.\n• Communicate material-readiness, inventory, shipment, delivery, facility, or resource risks to the Operations Manager\nand affected teams.\n \nSafety and Facility Readiness\n• Perform daily safety and 5S walks and correct unsafe, blocked, damaged, disorganized, or noncompliant conditions.\n• Confirm forklifts, pallet jacks, loading equipment, docks, racks, vehicles, and safety equipment are inspected and\nserviceable.\n \nWEEKLY RESPONSIBILITY \nPlanning and Coordination\n• Review upcoming manufacturing releases, project schedules, material forecasts, delivery requirements, long-lead\nitems, and warehouse-capacity constraints.\n• Conduct a weekly warehouse and logistics planning review with Manufacturing Operations, Purchasing, project\nsupport, and delivery personnel.\n• Prepare staffing, delivery, equipment, storage, and space plans for upcoming workload.\n \nInventory, Asset, and Performance Review\n• Conduct or validate cycle counts and investigate discrepancies, transaction errors, location problems, and recurring\nshortages.\n• Review warehouse KPIs, including receiving, inventory, staging, shipping, delivery, damage, safety, labor, asset, and\nfreight performance.\n• Review tool, equipment, vehicle, repair, calibration, certification, and maintenance status.\n• Assign corrective actions and verify closure of recurring operational problems.\n \nTeam and Continuous Improvement\n• Hold team coaching, training, performance, cross-training, and development discussions.\n• Review standard work, layouts, visual controls, replenishment methods, 5S conditions, and improvement\nopportunities.\n• Capture lessons learned and update procedures, checklists, labels, locations, dashboards, and training materials.\n \nLIVING OUR GUARANTEES\nAs the Warehouse Manager, this leader will embody and champion the core guarantees that define the organizational culture:\n• Lessons Learned: Capture receiving, inventory, staging, shipping, delivery, asset, and field-support successes and\nmisses, then convert them into transparent standards and corrective actions. Culture of Honesty.\n• Integration: Connect Purchasing, Manufacturing, project teams, field leadership, drivers, suppliers, carriers, Quality,\nand EHS through accurate information and dependable warehouse handoffs. Culture of Collaboration.\n• High Risk Management: Identify material, inventory, storage, traffic, equipment, delivery, damage, security, and safety\nrisks early and lead practical mitigation and escalation. Culture of Wisdom.\n• Data Driven Decisions: Use inventory, receiving, readiness, accuracy, delivery, damage, labor, cost, and asset data to\nprioritize work and improve warehouse performance. Culture of Intelligence.\n• Leadership Development: Develop warehouse personnel through coaching, reviews, cross-training, clear standards,\naccountability, and opportunities to use their Owner's Voice. Culture of Leadership.\n \nREQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES\nWarehouse and Logistics Skills\n• Strong knowledge of receiving, inspection, inventory control, warehousing, material handling, picking, kitting, staging,\npacking, shipping, delivery coordination, returns, and asset management.\n• Understanding of manufacturing material flow, production support, field-support kits, outbound assemblies, delivery\nsequencing, and project need dates.\n• Ability to establish location control, cycle counting, replenishment, min/max inventory, quarantine, return, and\ndiscrepancy-resolution practices.\n• Knowledge of freight, carrier, loading, cargo securement, delivery documentation, and proof-of-delivery requirements.\n \nSafety and Equipment Skills\n• Knowledge of warehouse and material-handling hazards, powered industrial trucks, storage racks, docks, pedestrian\nand vehicle traffic, PPE, housekeeping, and emergency access.\n• Ability to operate or become qualified on forklifts, pallet jacks, and other assigned warehouse equipment.\n• Ability to understand inspection, maintenance, repair, calibration, and certification requirements for tools, equipment,\nassets, and vehicles.\n \nSystems, Leadership, and Communication\n• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and ability to learn Remarcable, inventory, purchasing, scheduling, production, and\nreporting systems used by the company.\n• Strong leadership, organization, prioritization, scheduling, coaching, problem-solving, decision-making, and followthrough.\n• Ability to communicate accurate material, inventory, shipment, delivery, and risk information to office, shop, supplier,\ncarrier, and field stakeholders.\n• Commitment to safety, quality, service, continuous improvement, accountability, respect, inclusion, and confidentiality.\n \nCOLLABORATIVE DUTIES\n• Operations Manager: Align warehouse priorities, staffing, budgets, facility needs, performance reporting, and\nimprovement actions.\n• Manufacturing Operations and General Foremen: Coordinate raw-material availability, work-order priorities, WIP\nmovement, completed assemblies, packaging, staging, and production support.\n• Manufacturing Project Manager and Advanced Construction Planning: Align material forecasts, project need dates,\nwork-order schedules, kits, delivery sequence, constraints, and readiness reporting.\n• Purchasing and Suppliers: Coordinate