Senior Warehouse Operations Manager - Automation

What you'll do

• Steer the direction, inform and optimize the new automation workflow and robotics capabilities within the warehouse, to ensure highly effective process and measurable efficiencies.
• Develop, train and mentor the warehouse team members including the Site leadership team, to ensure a cohesive and highly productive work environment that successfully hits KPIs consistently.
• Act as a Leader within the department and organization. Primary point of contact for all Warehouse Operations Supervisors.
• Work cohesively with organizational leadership members to drive company and department initiatives forward.
• Monitor and assist Warehouse Operations Supervisors with all daily warehouse operations, including inbound freight, receiving purchase orders, stocking storage locations, vendor interaction, quality control, trouble-shooting inventory issues, and picking/packing/shipping of customer orders.
• Ensure work areas are safe, and that employees are following proper work distribution centre safety procedures and protocols and administering corrective action when regulations/guidelines are not followed.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining daily work schedules (scheduling overtime, ending work shifts early if work volume dictates, etc) to ensure business needs are met.
• Ensure time and attendance data is completed accurately within the company timekeeping system, including employee punch edits when necessary and tracking attendance occurrences.
• Respond to emergencies in a managerial and technical capacity.
• Manage all facets of the Warehouse Management System to ensure data integrity and smooth, consistent operational processes.
• Constantly look for new and innovative ways to increase the effectiveness of automation workflows, labor and system resources - ability to design and implement lasting positive change.
• Understand and lead the NSF preparation and audit needs.
• Serve as Sanitation Supervisor, maintaining a safe, clean, secure facility and directing internal sanitation, housekeeping, outside contractor cleaning, and pest control practices.

What you bring to the table

• Post-Secondary Education in either Business, Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain Management (or relevant fields) preferred.
• 5+ years of experience effectively leading teams of 80 or more in a warehouse environment; including hiring, documentation, termination, training, and acting as an effective change agent.
• Proven experience specifically implementing, steering and building out the process for new automation and robotics capabilities within a distribution center warehouse.
• Proven experience evaluating, implementing, and optimizing warehouse automation technologies - such as conveyor systems, sortation, goods to person, pick-to-light, robotics, or automated storage solutions to improve accuracy, productivity, and scalability.
• Experience managing and developing salaried exempt leaders.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Thorough understanding of warehouse and distribution center procedures and concepts.
• Ability to make difficult decisions, solve problems, prioritize assignments, generate and utilize reports, and manage projects.
• Advanced experience with ERP & WMS systems, as well as Microsoft Office Suite and/or Google Suite.
• Knowledgeable and/or trained in housekeeping, sanitation, and pest control processes.
• Willingness and ability to travel as needed to other site locations, especially as we build our automation capabilities out further across our other Distribution Centre locations across the USA.