A Warehouse Manager responsible for providing leadership and accountability for the end-to-end movement of materials through the plant, including warehousing, raw fruit receiving, inventory management, production scheduling, and procurement of ingredients and supplies. This role ensures uninterrupted plant operations by balancing capacity, inventory, labor, and customer demand while driving operational excellence, cost optimization, food safety, and continuous improvement through LEAN.
Required:
A bachelor's degree in business administration, Supply Chain, or related field is preferred.
Minimum of 3 years of supply chain, inventory control, warehouse, or related experience.
Warehouse, distribution, or manufacturing operations leadership
Experience managing supervisors and larger hourly workforces
Budget accountability
KPI creation and management
Inventory management and storage optimization
Vendor/3PL management experience
Strong data analysis and reporting skills
Safety leadership experience
Job Responsibilities:
Leads all warehouse operations supporting a high-volume manufacturing environment, ensuring safe, efficient, and accurate movement of finished goods, raw materials, packaging, and ingredients.
Lead and coordinate raw product, raw fruit usage and materials being shipped to the facility based on fruit procurement schedule. Coordinate with planning, based on raw fruit, production, and sales needs. Ensure receiving materials are inspected and have appropriate documentation.
Supervise the grading of the raw fruit as per parameters on the grade sheet, including brix, pressure, sizing, shape, and acid tests to ensure they meet the production requirements.
Supervise the implementation and maintenance of real time raw fruit consumption through the use of Factory Track. Ownership over inventory accuracy, storage utilization, shipment execution, labor productivity, and service performance.
Establishes performance metrics and improvement plans to achieve inventory, safety, quality, and throughput objectives. Review paperwork, shipping and production scheduling, on floor verification, subordinate interaction and debriefing, and shift report/email review and response
Provide leadership and supervision of supervisory, administrative, fruit receiving and/or warehouse employees.
Manage goals and objectives for staff, and ensure managers supervise employee goals within the plant. Provide formal and informal feedback through coaching and development monitoring and evaluating job results.
Coordinate, schedule and supervise all finished goods to outside storage facilities integrator between Supply Chain, Production, Procurement, and Customer Demand. Manage all shipments that are out to the third-party warehouses. Document Control:
Develop and implement SOPs and SSOPs relevant to the area of responsibility. Ensure appropriate documents are stored and approved within the document control and training system.
Ensure appropriate personnel are adequately trained to all relevant approved documents.
Ensure adherence to all company and warehouse policies and procedures. Develop and implement processes which improve raw fruit receiving and warehouse function and efficiency, while maintaining and promoting a safe working environment and meeting customer requirements.
Ensure compliance with, and enforcement of all company policies and procedures concerning cGMPs, food safety and all appropriate pre-requisite programs.
Interact and develop positive working relationships with plant staff and corporate staff. Assist in facilitating workflow between raw fruit receiving, production, warehouse and other departments in the plant to ensure efficient plant operation.
Develop and oen raw fruit receiving and warehouse budgets based on forecasted requirements. Schedule resources and manage expenditures including all forklifts and plant related trucking. Prepare and delivery spreadsheets and information for budgeting and forecasting.
Maintain physical…