Operations Manager - Specialty Building Products Holdings, LLC

Essential Functions

Warehouse Management

• Primary point of responsibility for receiving warehouse and inventory management for the site.
  • Provides leadership, guidance and training in all warehouse functional areas, including receiving, warehousing, cycle counting, and material handling.
  • Assures that the highest standards are maintained for safety, housekeeping, and compliance with all government and company requirements.
  • Ensures optimization of all material flow activities including inventory control and materials movement
  • Audits incoming shipments and inventory to ensure accuracy.
  • Ensures all materials are picked properly and loaded securely to be delivered in a timely manner.
  • Assess and regularly provide Management with updates on safety and manufacturing performance.
  • Effectively managing expenses to the warehouse budget along with ensuring the appropriateness of expenditures.
  • Maintains and updates policies, handbooks and procedures as per regulations, customer requirements and company strategy.
  • Scheduling emergency and routine maintenance and repairs of all machines and equipment.
  • Ensures that resource utilization is optimized in terms of timeliness, accuracy, efficiency, productivity and safety.
  • Negotiate and authorize contracts with equipment and materials suppliers, and monitor contract fulfillment.
  • Analyze expenditures and other financial information in order to develop plans, policies, and budgets for increasing profits and improving warehouse productivity.
  • Participate in settlement of grievances brought by plant employees pertaining to safety and other incentive programs.
  • Establish and maintain appropriate KPI for ensuring that performance of the zone and of individuals assigned to the zone are meeting expectations.

Department Management

• Conducts all recruiting, training, supervising, and evaluating of department staff members.
  • Establishes and maintain an organizational structure and staffing within budget to effectively accomplish the department's objectives and to support our financial reporting environment.
  • Continuously improves the warehouse operations, including the development of staff by providing effective coaching and feedback as well as appropriate delegation to staff members; assists with administering annual reviews.

General and Administrative

• Supports the corporate vision, mission and values.
  • Communicates effectively with various management and operational departments, informing and updating them regularly to guarantee that sales and customer objectives are met
  • Complies with all OSHA safety requirements, work rules and regulations both personally and within the warehouse operations
  • Compiles and maintain all required paperwork, records, documents, etc.
  • Follows systems and procedures outlined in company manuals
  • Maintains departmental housekeeping standards
  • All other duties as requested by management
  
  Qualifications
  
  Formal Education and Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field required.
  • Master’s degree preferred.
  • Current First Responder and AED certification

Knowledge and Experience

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  Minimum of 5-7 years' experience in warehouse management
  • Experience with negotiating contracts and managing expenses to a monthly budget is required.
  • Experience with Managing projects across multiple areas of an organization that are related to manufacturing, transportation, warehouse operations is required.
  • Experience with Lean Initiatives and successful implementation of Lean Projects within a manufacturing plant environment is required, certification is desirable.

Personal Attributes

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  Exceptional written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to work under pressure and with shifting priorities
  • Ability to collaborate with sales, accounting, maintenance, IT and other business functional work groups to ensure the company’s success
  • Exceptional organizational and time management skills
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills, possessing an ability to work with a diverse population
  • Capable of critical thinking and use of logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions
  • Strong project management skills with a verifiable track record of success
  • Strong business acumen, with an eye on controlling costs and increasing profitability
  • Desire to serve